FoEI ANNUAL GENERAL
MEETING IN THE UNITED STATES
The 2001 Annual General Meeting took
place from 9-14 September in West Virgina,
USA. The main highlights follow.
The AGM admitted four new associate
members: Green Action from Croatia,
Environmental Foundation Ltd. from Sri
Lanka, Labor from Peru and Maudesco from
Mauritius. FoE Middle East is now a full
member of FoEI. New affiliate members are
Peace Boat (Japan), Mineral Policy
Institute (Australia), Corporate Europe
Observatory (Netherlands) and Amigos da
Terra Amazonia Brazil.
The new Executive Committee is composed
of the following individuals and groups:
Ricador Navarro, El Salvador (Chair),Tony
Juniper, England, Wales and Northern
Ireland (Vice-Chair), Otto Sieber,
Switzerland (Treasurer), and FoE Nigeria,
FoE Paraguay, FoE Philippines and FoE
Sweden.
The 2002 Biannual General Meeting will
be hosted by FoE Switzerland. The main
international event in 2001 will be a
South-South TES strategy meeting
co-organized by FoE Benin and FoE Ecuador.
The six priority campaigns for the network
in the coming period are the following:
Genetically-Modified Organisms, Climate,
Trade, Environment and Sustainability, Rio
Plus Ten, Forests and International
Financial Institutions.
And finally, the 14 FoEI resolutions
adopted at this AGM were the following:
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Calling for a boycott of Imperial
Oil/Exxon Products (FoE Canada).
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Opposing the adoption by the
Philippines Congress of the
anti-injuction bill (FoE
Philippines).
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Calling for the increased protection
of Norwegian forests (FoE Norway).
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Calling for the adoption of urgent
measures to protect El Salvador's Balsam
Cordillera (FoE El Salvador).
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Opposing oil exploration and
extraction in Costa Rica (FoE Costa
Rica).
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Saving Sundarbans, the largest
mangrove forest in the world (FoE
Bangladesh).
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Calling upon the International
Finance Corporation to turn down the loan
application of the project sponsor of the
Jordan Gateway Project (FoE Middle
East).
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Opposing the spraying of glyphosates
and the use of biological and toxic
weapons to destroy illegal crops in the
Amazon Basin (FoE Ecuador).
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Calling for the prevention of human
rights abuses, the reduction of
international conflict and the
preservation of the historic world
heritage site Hasankeyf as part of the
international campaign against the Ilisu
dam in the Kurdish part of Turkey (FoE
Austria).
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Supporting the withdrawal of Plan
Colombia, and the dismantling of military
bases in neighbouring countries (FoE
Curacao).
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Supporting the River Chaihuin Defense
Committee in their campaign to stop
native forest conversion into plantations
in the coastal range in the south of
Chile (FoE Chile).
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Supporting the protection of the
rights of the U'wa people to their
cultural heritage and territory (FoE
Colombia).
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Opposing Spain's National Water Plan
(FoE Spain).
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Opposing the decision of the Greek
government not to destroy the country's
genetically-modified cotton crops (FoE
Greece).
Photos from the 2000 AGM are available
on the FoEI website.
