Sixth International Conference on New and Restored Democracies was held in Doha, Qatar, from 29th October to 1st November 2006. The Republic of Croatia was represented by a delegation from Croatian embassy in Cairo led by ambassador Dražen Margeta.
Sixth International Conference on New and Restored Democracies was held in Doha, Qatar, from 29th October to 1st November 2006. The Republic of Croatia was represented by delegation from Croatian embassy in Cairo led by ambassador Dražen Margeta.
The New or Restored Democracies Process took off in Asia in the late 1980's on the initiative of the Philippines. The constitutive idea of the process is that democratization of States can be supported through international cooperation. These states gathering and working together assumed that, with mutual support, internal and external tendencies and forces endangering the processes of democratization could be overcome.
The process continued with a Second International Conference on New or Restored Democracies in 1994 in Latin America, (in Managua, Nicaragua), and from there the baton was passed on to Europe and Romaina, where the Third Conference was held in Bucharest in 1997. The Fourth Conference was held on 3-6 December 2000 in Africa, with Cotonou in Benin as host. The Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar served as host for the Fifth Conference in September 2003 and the Sixth Conference was held in Qatar in the period October 29-Nov.1, 2006.
The Doha conference was divided in three workshops, covering basic pillars of a democracy: government, parliament and civil society. In the corresponding forums member countries reaffirmed commitment to strengthening the tripartite partnership within the framework of ICNRD process through the establishment and enhancement of cooperation and consultation among governments, parliaments and civil society, and – in close cooperation with the United nations – organize national, regional and global meetings, seminars and conferences on democracy promotion.
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