CONGRESS
NAIROBI, KENYA, DECEMBER 1998
Report of
Activities
From the 3rd to the
6th of this past December, the First Euro-African Green Meeting named "The
Challenge of Globalization and the Environment", took place in Nairobi, Kenya.
Around 200 delegates and observers
from 25 African countries, representatives from Green Parties in Africa, Non Governmental
Organizations from 12 countries, European Green Parties, Green Parliamentarians as well as
the delegates from the Federation of the Americas, assisted and participated.
The Federation of Green Parties of
the Americas was represented by its Vice-president Natalia Escudero. Annie Bouillier Goeke
from the ASGP and member of the Executive Commitee of the Federation, was also present at
this important event.
During three days the green
delegates from the different continents exposed their green experiences in social,
economical and political issues. During this time the paticipants agreed in the
possibility of making joint cooperation efforts in different levels: regional, continental
and global.
In this meeting a document titled
"Euro-African Commitment for Green Action" was adopted.
The participation of the
Vice-president of the Federation, Natalia Escudero, was centered in three points:
1)The presentation of the
Federation of Green Parties of the Americas, its activities and actions taken since its
founding.
2) As carrier of an invitation that
the Federation of Green Parties of the Americas and the Federation of Green Ecological
Parties of Africa convoke, ALL GREEN PARTIES AND NON GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS IN THE
WORLD to the International Meeting called GREEN MILLENIUM that will take place in Oaxaca,
Mexico from the 20th to the 25th of September 1999.
3) The problem in the State of
Chiapas, and the actions taken by the Green Ecological party of Mexico to confront it.
This way the Federation of green
Parties of the Americas is achieving its goals through a mutual global cooperation.
Its participation
in Africa unifies and fortifies the efforts of all environmental
political and non political organizations.
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