(March 19, 2005/ Taipei, Taiwan) The Council of Asian Liberals & Democrats (CALD) holds today its first Executive Committee Meeting at the Spring Resort Hotel.
The meeting was presided by Ms. Bi-Khim Hsiao, MP, CALD Secretary General. The party representatives were Taiwanese Chairwoman of the Research and Planning Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maysing Yang and Ms. Huai Hui Hsieh of the Democratic Progressive Party of Taiwan; Dr. Neric Acosta, MP, of the Liberal Party of the Philippines; Dr. Buranaj Smuthraks, MP of the Democrat Party of Thailand; Senator Ung Bun Ang of the Sam Rainsy Party of Cambodia; Dr. Chua Peng Song, MP, of the Malaysian People’s Movement Party (Gerakan); Dr. Rajiva Wijesinha of the Liberal Party of Sri Lanka; Dr. Chee Soon Juan of the Singapore Democratic Party and Mr. Maung Maung of the National Council of the Union of Burma.
The CALD Secretariat was represented by Mr. John Joseph S. Coronel, executive Director and Program Officers Mr. Brian Gonzales and Ms. Andrea Yang. The Friedrich Naumann Foundation was represented by Mr. Uwe Johannen, Regional Director for East and Southeast Asia and Dr. Ronald Meinardus, Resident Representative (Manila).
The Executive Committee evaluated past projects since the last Execom meeting (Penang, August, 2004) including the CALD Vision Mission Workshop in Penang; the 2nd CALD Communication Workshop in Phnom Penh; the Manila Mission of the National Council of the Union of Burma; the Alliance of Liberals & Democrats for Europe (ALDE)-CALD Meeting in Brussels; the CALD Executive Visit to the European Commission; CALD-DPP Pre Elections Legislative Mission to Taiwan; and the 3rd Young Liberals & Democrats of Asia (YLDA)-CALD Young Leaders Workshop in Katmandu.
They also planned the future activities of CALD including the Liberal International-CALD Women’s Conference and Workshop and the 3rd CALD Communications Workshop.
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