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Topic Discussion I
Politics of Hard Choices
Political Transition and Economic Restructuring
Room 4
(2 of 12 pages)
Chair: I want to welcome you very heartily to this session of ours and
I hope that you had the time to relax after our intense and most interesting morning. They are a few things that
we ought to agree upon. I've asked our speakers to speak for about five to eight minutes at the maximum for the
introduction and if one of you take the floor I would ask that you not take more than three to five minutes at
the utmost. I have a clock and I'm going to warn you when your time is approaching it's end. I ask you to do this
because we have very little time at our disposal. We have almost 20 minutes for the speeches and then we have very
limited time for the very interesting discussion we ought to enable. We were handed out a paper with seven questions
which I hope you have all had the occasion to read. I thought it might be helpful if we write down the seven questions
in three blocks and concentrate on one block for half an hour each so that we have the possibility to place our
interventions towards the topic within a certain time.
Before we start with our two speakers I thought it would be helpful if we had a round of introductions.
Katrn Fuchs: I am Katrn Fuchs and I come from Germany and I have been a Member of Parliament for four periods.
I did not run last time in October but my political profile is I've been on the defense committee, on the crime
committee and head of the committee on disarmament and arms control. These are the things that have nothing to
do with economics. I was a member of the executive council for the social democratic party and I was on the board
of parliamentary group of the social democratic in the parliament.
Marissa Brown: My name is Marissa Brown (ph) and I am the Deputy Director of the Middle East and North Africa
team at NDI.
Kuber Sharma: My name is Kuber Sharma and I belong to the Greer Nepal Party. I was a Member of Parliament
and I am concerned with the green peace movement.
Usha Nepal: I am Usha Nepal and I am the Chief District Officer in Kathnandu for Nepal. I am a civil servant
and I work with the government. I am also looking after local elections.
John Kufuor: I am John Kufuor and I am the Presidential Candidate for the main opposition party in Ghana.
I served as Member of Parliament twice, in the second and third republic. I contested the Presidency in 1996 polling
40% of the popular vote and I'm still at it.
Noozha Skalli: I am Noozha Skalli from Morocco. Elected since 1976 and in charge of the municipality of
Casablanca and also the head of the social team in the Moroccan parliament.
Speaker: A Parliamentarian and Head of the Democratic Labor Confederation. That is the first trade union
to be represented in the parliament in Morocco. I am also Secretary General and represent the employers.
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George Jardim: I am George Jardim. I am an executive of the Private Sector Commission of Guyana. The Private
Sector Commission has been trying to mediate the differences between government, the opposition party and labor
as we go through our structural adjustment programs.
Manuel Tome: My name is Manuel Tome and I am the Secretary General of Frelimo, the ruling party in Mozambique,
and I am also a Member of Parliament. I am a journalist by profession. It's better to be a journalist than a politician.
Shyley Kondowe: I am Shyley Kondowe and I am Executive Director of the Malawi Institute for Democratic and
Economic Affairs.
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