Human Rights Festival Zagreb big success
14 June 2005
“We can not abandon our agreements with the Balkan countries”, says MEP Wiersma
More than 100 human rights activists and social democratic and socialist party representatives gathered for a one-day Human Rights Festival in Zagreb, Croatia, on 4 June.
The Festival was organised by the European Forum for Democracy and Solidarity and the foundation of the Croatian Social Democratic Party, Novo Drustvo. It succeeded to get together people active in the human rights field and in social democratic parties in the region of former Yugoslavia with EU social democrats. Jan Marinus Wiersma, vice-chairman of the Socialist group in the European Parliament, said: “It is an important time for the region. This year we mark ten years of the Dayton agreement, which ended the war in Bosnia. Also the time has come to think of the future of Kosovo. The political situation in the region is closely connected to the observance and promotion of human rights”.
The participants engaged in lively discussions on six different aspects of the human rights: women in politics, gay and lesbian rights, refugees and displaced persons, the Dayton peace agreement, conscript military service and Roma ethnic minorities. All working groups presented summaries of their conclusions, which were very practical and future-oriented.
In the end, all participants came together for a panel discussion on the role of social democratic parties and foundations for the human rights promotion in the Balkan region. Many foundations took part in this discussion: the Socialist group in the European Parliament, the French Fondation Jean-Jaures, the Austrian Dr. Karl Renner Institut, the Dutch Alfred Mozer Stichting, the office in Bosnia of the Swedish Olof Palme International Centre. All agreed that co-operation in the region should be intensified. Fears that the will to further enlarge the European Union has diminished after the French and Dutch refusals of the European constitution were expressed. However, MEP Jan Marinus Wiersma said: “We can not abandon our agreements with the Balkan countries. The EU can not just close the door."
In the autumn, the Socialist group is organising an assessment visit throughout the Balkan region. The European Forum for Democracy and Solidarity, together with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and the Alfred Mozer Stiching, goes on with its Course for Promising Politicians for a selected group of young politicians from former Yugoslavia and Albania.
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