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23-24 November 1998

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Geneva, 23-24 November 1998
To regulate globalisation and to globalise regulation
Statement on the Middle East
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Resolution on Iraq
Resolution on Afghanistan
Statement on the arrest of Abdullah Ocalan in Italy
Resolution on Morocco
Declaration on the conflicts in Africa
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Declaration on South-East Europe
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Statement on the Caucasus
Resolution on Malaysia
Resolution on Burma
Resolution on East Timor
Statement on Chile
Statement on democracy in Peru
Statement on peace in Colombia
Statement on Central America
Statement on the Dominican Republic
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GENEVA COUNCIL - Making global markets work for all

23-24 November 1998

STATEMENT ON DEMOCRACY IN PERU

Original: Spanish

The Council of the Socialist International:

expresses its concern at the decision of the Peruvian government to impose in an unconstitutional manner the third consecutive election of Alberto Fujimori as president;

regrets that to such an end the independence of the judicial and the electoral powers has disappeared and that the proposal tabled by one and a half million Peruvians that this re-election be put to a referendum has been rejected in an illegal fashion;

asks its member parties to demand through their legislators and governments the re-establishment of democracy in Peru, and