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Read the G40 Statement to the "London Conference" about Somalia - 23 February 2012. You can follow it on Twitter using the hashtag #LDNSomalia. Further information about our mission clicking here
G40 women leaders group from the Greater Horn of Africa High Level Mission in Hargeisa, Somaliland. Kjell Magne Bondevik, the former Prime Minister of Norway and a member of the Club de Madrid, presided today over a round table discussion in Hargeisa (Somalia) to hear the recommendations for peace and security in Somaliland from the G40, a group of women leaders in the Greater Horn of Africa.
Member Kjell Magne Bondevik, former Primer Minister of Norway, led a Club de Madrid mission to Osh city in Kyrgyzstan (November 20-24) to provide leadership to regional and local authorities, along to urban policy-makers, architects and city-planners, in Southern Kyrgyzstan.
The Club de Madrid delegation also included two international experts on urban development: Martin Angeby, Secretary General of the Swedish International Liberal Centre, and John David Hulchansky, Professor of Housing and Community Development at the University of Toronto, Canada.
Paris, 9 September 2011 – In view of the grave and anxious economic and political situation the world is presently experiencing, the next G20 summit will pay particular attention to the search for and application of solutions to these issues. At this summit, 19 countries will arrange to meet, as well as the European Union, as an economic bloc, which represents 85% of the world’s economy and two thirds of the world’s population.
The Club of Madrid is joining forces in this effort through its G20 initiative. With the support of the French Presidency of the G20 and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, the Club of Madrid organised during the 8 – 9 September a high level meeting in Paris, with the objective of evaluating and debating the most pressing and urgent affairs currently gripping the world today, ones which are considered vital for the G20 to address.
Download the recommendations presented by the Club of Madrid’s members to President Sarkozy
Our souls are saddened and our hearts in pain after the killing of 76 people in Norway last July 22. An aggression on any nation is an aggression on all nations. An injury to one human being is an injury on all humanity.
All lives are infinite and each one of them ought to be shielded from hate or violence. But when it is the life of youth that is attacked, it is our mere future that is assailed. We will never be able to console enough the families and friends of those who were killed, but we will stand by their side, and ensure that the victims will always be remembered and that their deaths will not be lead to hate. Through our colleague Club de Madrid Members and former Prime Ministers of Norway Bondevik and Brundtland we want to extend to an each and every citizen of Norway our sympathy and support.
The Club de Madrid and the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs co-organized a debate on “Changes in the Arab World: Revolutions towards Democracy?” held in the Diplomatic School of Madrid on April 5, with keynote speeches by Wim Kok (Prime Minister of the Netherlands, 1994-2002 and President of the Club de Madrid), Lionel Jospin (Prime Minister of France, 1997-2002), Sadig Al Mahdi (Prime Minister of Sudan, 1966-1967 and 1986-1989) and Abdul-Kareem Al Eryani (Prime Minister of Yemen, 1980-1983 and 1998-2001) through a video message.
Click here to watch the video message from Prime Minister Al-Eryani
Speech by Prime Minister Sadig Al Mahdi, Sudan (1966-1967, 1986-1989)
From 28-31 March 2011, a Club de Madrid mission entitled “Consolidation of new political structures and Constitutional implementation”, led by two Club de Madrid Members – Kjell Magne Bondevik, Prime Minister of Norway (1997-2000, 2001-2005) and Petre Roman, Prime Minister of Romania (1989-1991), as well as Club de Madrid’s Secretary General, Carlos Westendorp launched the Club’s project “Political Leadership for Democratic Transition in Kyrgyzstan”. This was the first mission in the framework of a twelve-months project funded by the Delegation of the European Union to the Kyrgyz Republic.
Former members of the Iranian Parliament and current opposition thanked the Club de Madrid for its March 16 letter to Ayatollah Ali Khāmene’I through which it expressed its concern about the abduction of Mr. Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mr. Mehdi Karoubi, former Prime Minister and Parliament Speaker of Iran and prominent candidates to the presidential elections, together with their respective wives. “Having received considerable echo within international and national media, this initiative was felt as a crucial support for all those fighting for freedom in Iran”, they say.
Madrid, March 16th, 2011 – The Club de Madrid, concerned about the abduction of Mr. Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mr. Mehdi Karoubi, has taken action and has sent an open letter to the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Ayatollah Seyed Ali Hoseyni Khāmene’I.
Following on its partnership with the Alliance of Civilizations, the Club de Madrid, in collaboration with the Oslo Centre for Peace and Human Rights, organized a thematic session on Employment and Poverty Reduction in times of crisis: leadership action for Shared Societies in the framework of the III Forum of the Alliance in Rio de Janeiro May 27-29.
The organization, following the engagement with the Alliance, has organized a thematic session on Employment and Poverty Reduction in Times of Crisis. Leadership Action for Shared Societies: Bridging Cultures, Parity of Esteem and Economic Well-being as part of the Alliance's Third Forum in Rio de Janeiro. The sesson will feature Members John Kufuor (Ghana), Kjell Magne Bondevik (Norway), and the Ombudswoman of Peru Dr. Merino amongst others.