MARIO NALBANDIAN ATTENDS A MEETING OF PROGRESSIVE LEADERS
Yerkir
31.03.2009 13:42
Yerevan (Yerkir) – The sixth meeting of progressive leaders was held
in Chile on March 28.
The meeting was attended by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown,
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, Norwegian Prime Minister Jens
Stoltenberg , Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and
Presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil, Cristina Fernandez
of Argentina and Tabaro Vezquez of Uruguay.
Chile’s socialist President Michelle Bachelet hosted the summit, which
opened Friday with a seminar on "a progressive response to the global
crisis," organised by the Policy Network, an international think tank,
and Chile’s Instituto Igualdad (Equality Institute).
Other participants in the gathering were Organisation of American
States (OAS) secretary general José Miguel Insulza, and the executive
secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC),
Alicia Bercena.
The progressive leaders summits, the first of which took place in
1999 at the instigation of then U.S. President Bill Clinton and then
British Prime Minister Tony Blair, bring together heads of state
and government and other high-ranking government and international
officials with ties to socialist, social democratic, labour and
democratic parties around the world.
This weekend’s summit was the first to be held in Latin America.