Conversation Event in Bangladesh

Posted by AlexT - 04/11/09 at 12:11 pm

Title: Conversation Event in Bangladesh

Date: 2009-10-29

A Conversation event arranged by the Media Initiative for Public Policy took place on October 29.

MAM_0001-1The Bangladeshi Foreign Minister attended and spoke of the need for more COMMON action to create more WEALTH. She echoed the British Foreign Secretary’s view that the Commonwealth and its shared values of pluralism, liberal democracy and legal process absolutely had a place in the modern world.

Several key themes emerged:

- The simplicity and informality of many of the Commonwealth’s structures means it could be an effective mechanism for a third of the world’s population to make big decisionsMAM_0029-1 (1)

- The Commonwealth could focus more on climate change, given the threat this poses to Commonwealth members such as Bangladesh and the Maldives

- The Commonwealth should do more to assist fragile democracies

- There is not enough awareness of the work of the Commonwealth

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