Links To The Community of Democracies
Civitatis was the only British based organisation to take part in the final meeting of the NGO Process of the Community of Democracies in Santiago, Chile. Civitatis s and the Executive Director Jan Mortier jointly drafted the Document for Ministerial Consideration that was then presented to the Ministers of State at the Fourth intergovernmental meeting of the Community of Democracies. US Secretary of State Dr Condoleezza Rice commended the document. Civitatis secured recommendations from the UK Foreign Office for a British Minister of state under the Labour government to take part in the Community of Democracies intergovernmental meetings and secured endorsements of the Community by the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission.
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