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Invitation to join the Group of Friends of the Special
Representative on Gender Issues
To Heads of Delegations
At the Winter Meeting of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, I invited all
colleagues, women and men, to join my informal network which I call the `Group of
Friends of the Special Representative on Gender Issues'.
I need the co-operation from as many Members as possible. Among my ideas for the
future is organizing a series of seminars on Gender Issues in parliaments of member
States. During the Winter Meeting, I already got an invitation to visit the
Azerbaijani Milli Mejlis. If this is followed by more invitations, which I hope will
be the case, you can easily understand that we need to be more people involved in
such exercises.
I am also thinking of a possible side event prior to the summer Annual Session in
Kiev. One of the ideas I have is to illustrate what the implementation of the `UN
Resolution 1325 — Women in Conflict' means in real life. Do we have good
examples to share? I am sure concrete examples will help others understand what
gender equality is all about. Discussion of examples and our experiences will help
demonstrate that it is a question of relevant representation and of democratic power
sharing and at the same time efficiency in work and reliability in results.
So I kindly ask you to talk with the Members of your Delegation and decide who
could join the network.
Please let me and Tina Schott ([email protected]) at the Secretariat know and let us
have all the addresses and telephone numbers we need to contact the person you
choose for this important work.
Yours sincerely,
Tone Tingsgaard
Vice-President and Special Representative on Gender Issues
Raadhusstraede 1, 1466 Copenhagen K., Denmark
Phone: +45 33 37 80 40 - Fax: +45 33 37 80 30 - E-mail [email protected] -
Website: www.oscepa.org