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Central and Eastern Europe

Meeting of the Socialist International Committee for Central and Eastern Europe, Sarajevo

04-05 May 1998

Peace and stability were high on the agenda of the meeting of the SI Committee for Central and Eastern Europe, SICEE, which was organised by our International in Sarajevo on 4-5 May. Many member parties and guests from the region participated in the meeting (full list of participants). The Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina, SDP BiH, and the Social Democrats of Bosnia and Herzegovina, SD BiH, both SI member parties, and the Independent Social Democrats of Republika Srpska were at the centre of discussions on the peace process in their country and the prospects for a social democratic advance in the elections scheduled for September 1998.

In the meeting, which was chaired by Co-Chair Piero Fassino of the Italian Democratic Party of the Left, PDS, Zlatko Lagumdzija, leader of the SDP BiH, and Selim Beslagic, leader of the SD BiH, acknowledged the opportunities afforded by greater stability within the area. The Committee heard from Milorad Dodik, Prime Minister of Republika Srpska, who reported on the remarkable work of his newly-formed government. SICEE recognised the new phase which had opened and called for the full application of the Dayton Accords in its Declaration, which was subsequently presented to the Oslo Council meeting where it was adopted.

The Committee also focused on the very serious situation in Kosovo and other developments in the Balkans. It emphasised that it was vital for dialogue without preconditions to be initiated and agreed to send a mission to the region to help reduce tensions and contribute to the search for political solutions. The next meeting of the Committee will be held in Bucharest, with the cooperation of our Romanian member parties.

   

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS


Co-Chair of the Committee
Piero Fassino
(Italy, PDS )

Secretary General of the SI
Luis Ayala

AUSTRIA
Social Democratic Party of Austria, SPÖ
Susanne Gaugl

BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA
Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina, SDP BiH
Zlatko Lagumdzija
Bogic Bogicevic
Sead Avdic
Karlo Kilipovic
Mirjana Malic
Dragan Ivanovic
Sabrija Pojskic
Miro Lazovic
Fadil Sero
Ana Mehmedbasic
Rada Lukic
Omir Tufo

BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA
Social Democrats of Bosnia and Herzegovina, SD BiH
Selim Beslagic
Sejfudin Tokic
Svjetlana Fabijanc
Gordana Vidovic
Zdenko Martinovic
Ljubisa Markovic
Mehmed Rahmanovic
Edhem Biber
Hasan Becirovic
Emina Tokic

CZECH REPUBLIC
Czech Social Democratic Party
Jan Kavan
(Vice-Chair of SICEE)

FRANCE
Socialist Party, PS
Christian Castagna

GEORGIA
Citizens' Union of Georgia
Giorgi Baramidze

GERMANY
Social Democratic Party of Germany, SPD
Günter Verheugen
Jutta Tiedtke
Gisela Nauk

GREAT BRITAIN
Labour Party
Nick Sigler

GREECE
Panhellenic Socialist Movement, PASOK
Dimitris Batzelis

HUNGARY
Hungarian Socialist Party, MSzP
Péter Havas
György Hegyi

ITALY
Democratic Party of the Left, PDS
Umberto Ranieri
Marco Bianchini

FYR MACEDONIA
Social Democratic Union of Macedonia, SDUM
Aleksandar Icev

MONTENEGRO
Social Democratic Party of Montenegro, SDPM
Dragisa Burzan

NETHERLANDS
Labour Party, PvdA
Irma Hesp

NORWAY
Norwegian Labour Party, DNA
Tonje Westby

POLAND
Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland, SdRP
Tadeusz Iwinsky

SLOVAK REPUBLIC
Slovak Social Democratic Party, SDSS
Vladimir Drozda

SLOVENIA
United List of Social Democrats of Slovenia, ZL
Aurelio Juri

SPAIN
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, PSOE
Teresa Riera
María Solanas

Office of SI President
Axel Queval

International Union of Socialist Youth, IUSY
Tanja Hadziahmetovic
Zoran Blagojevic

Socialist International Women, SIW
Marlène Haas
Zita Gurmai

Parliamentary Group of the PES
Rob Van de Water

Party of European Socialists, PES
Jean-François Vallin

SI Secretariat
Latifa Perry
Justina Pang
Gabriela Shepherd

Guests:
Jean Jaurès Foundation
Maurice Lazar

BULGARIA
Euro Left Party
Alexander Tomov
Philip Bokov

CROATIA
Social Democratic Party, SDP
Davorko Vidovic
Tonino Picula

BiH REPUBLIKA SRPSKA
Independent Social Democrats
Milorad Dodik
Bastinac Nenad
Stanislav Cooto

RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Russian Social Democratic Union, RSDU
Pavel Kudyukin

UKRAINE
Social Democratic Party of Ukraine, SDPU
Yury Buzdugan
Olena Skomoroschchenko

 



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