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Topic Discussion III
Participation in
Democratic Decision-Making:
The Vital Voices of Women, Civil Society and
Pluralism
Room 2
(5 of 21 pages)
And we could ask ourselves why we prefer and propose more participation of women
in politics. There are a number of reasons we could talk of. The number one is women; we have very natural talent
of management. That could be used by every government to make our lives better. Secondly, less cost, this is the
less costly resource in the world. We have every country in the whole world have very limited resources. So we
cannot use this less resources for wealth and our people then the development could take a long time.
And number three; women are more responsible and more reliable and hard working. This is not only case for Mongolia
I think. If you look at the government agencies and if you look at the business sector, then you can find the third
reason. And women are relatively well organized. This is also comparable not only in Mongolian case. And we have
very healthy ambition. So this is also one of the considerable reasons. And we the skills to create a better friendly
atmosphere. So if we consider those benefits, or advantages of women, then why we should not promote potential
women more participate in politics.
Therefore as we're presenting one of the major women's ango's of Mongolia, I would propose every governments to
make, let us make our, let us to contribute in making world a better place to live. So we could contribute more
than you expect today.
In order to have a more participation of women in politics, I think we could every country, women's ango's internally
work closely. This could influence to achieve our goal. And secondly we could cooperate more originally. [inaudible]
as well as worldwide. We could create better network between, in terms of cooperation of women's ango's, in terms
of cooperation with the governments, with the international agencies. Thank you.
Marina Ottaway: Thank you very much, and I want to commend both speakers for setting such good example of
conciseness in the discussions, because that should leave us plenty of time. Our third speaker to my extreme left
is Mrs. Latifa BennanSmiress who was the first woman elected to the parliament in Morocco. She is a member of the
Executive Committee of the Istiqlal Party and she is also the President of Istiqlal Women's Association. In addition,
she is the President of the Moroccan Family Protection Association. The Association for the protection of the Moroccan
family and when she finds time, which is not clear how, she is a Professor of History at the University of Phas
(ph).
Mrs. BennanSmiress: Madame Chairwoman. Good morning. Can you hear me? I would like to introduce this topic
very briefly which might be a little bit far fetched from our topic. It is related to the conflict between the
rapid development taking its course in the world that is at the technical level and the rapid change of the deterioration
that the world is witnessing at the same time. The world has made headway in telecommunications and informatics
and communications amongst people, genetics, medicine, etc. The world has made gigantic progress and headway in
this way and with the purpose of providing more welfare to the peoples. At the same time we note that there is
spreading of family disintegration and diversions and a widespread of crimes and new phenomenon that are extremely
harmful to humans such as drug addiction, drug abuse etc. Even including unemployment and poverty. All these are
problems that make the world live a crisis. Of course I'm not bringing any new information or ideas in what I'm
saying before you today, because it is well known to all of you.
In the summit social summit in 1995 of Copenhagen, we have concluded or we have tried to analyze this and tried
to extract complete conclusions and recommendations that might lead us to certain solutions. That analysis by the
Copenhagen conference showed some very important conclusions about the rule and about increasing, or boasting the
role of women in decision making as one of the solutions.
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