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(October 11,
2007/ Manila) The CALD secretariat met today with Mr. Harald
Klein, head of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation’s international
department, and Ms. Bettina Solinger, head of FNF’s department
for Asia and Latin America.
The
secretariat showed a multimedia presentation outlining the
history, structure and growth of CALD as a liberal organization
and as a vital network of liberal political parties and
institutions. The FNF guests were informed as well about CALD’s
upcoming projects for the forth quarter of 2007 namely: the 5th
CALD Communications Workshop and the LI Human Rights Conference
& CALD General Assembly.
Mr. Klein is
the former FNF regional director for Latin America. He
particularly focused his work in helping establish the Liberal
Network for Latin America (RELIAL). CALD and RELIAL held a
workshop in May of 2005 on “Results of and Challenges for
Regional Cooperation in Asian and Latin America” during the 53rd
Congress of the Liberal International at the National Palace of
Culture in Sofia. The workshop took the form of a Roundtable
discussion between RELIAL and CALD and observers from Liberal
International and FNF-South America. This was followed by
another meeting in Marrakech, Morocco last November, 2006 during
the 54th LI Congress.
Ms. Solinger
is a former FNF resident representative to Thailand and has
actively worked together with the Democrat Party of Thailand, a
founding member of CALD.
CALD and FNF
have been in close cooperation since CALD’s inception in 1993.
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