Translation of "Parti de l'union démocratique kurde " (French → English) :

DELEGATION: From the Republic of Bulgaria : Yordan Sokolov, President of the National Assembly; Blagovest Sendov, Vice-President of the National Assembly, Parliamentary Group of the Democratic Left; Ekaterina Mihaylova, Chairperson of the Parliamentary Group of the Union of the Democratic Forces and Chairperson of the Parliamentary Friendship Group Bulgaria-Canada; Svetlana Dyankova, Deputy Chairperson of the Parliamentary Group of the Union of the De ...[+++]mocratic Forces; Stefan Lichev, Member of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union, Parliamentary Group of the People's Union Democratic Party; Emel Etem Tochkova, Parliamentary Group of the National Salvation Alliance; Boyko Radoev, Deputy Chairman of the Political Council of the Bulgarian Euroleft, Parliamentary Group Euroleft.

Delegation: Rudolf Filkus, Deputy Chairman of the National Council of the Slovak Republic, Independent; Dušan Slobodník, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Standing Committee, MP for Movement for Democratic Slovakia (HZDS); Irena Belohorská, Vice-Chair of the Foreign Affairs Standing Committee, MP for HZDS; Arpád Tarnóczy, Member of the Foreign Affairs Standing Committee, MP for HZDS; Alica Bieliková, Member of the Foreign Affairs Standing Committee, MP for HZDS; Jozef Hanker, Member of the Foreign Affairs Standing Committee, MP for HZDS; Peter Lauko, Member of the Foreign Affairs Standing Committee, MP for the Christian Democratic Movem ...[+++]ent; Lubomír Fogaš, Member of the Foreign Affairs Standing Committee, MP for Party of Democratic Left; Eduard Kukan, Member of the Foreign Affairs Standing Committee, MP for Democratic Union and one of the leaders of the Slovak Democratic Coalition.

It was a gentleman from Iran who was a supporter of an organization called the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran, which is trying to get autonomy for the Kurds in Iran and was opposed to the regime from which we just broke off diplomatic relations, the Iranian government.

It has used military force against Kurdish separatists, while jailing and persecuting leaders and activists of the non-violent Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, whose late leaders were murdered by Iranian assassins in Vienna in 1989 and Berlin in 1992.

In particular, an entire area of research, with a budget of approximately 125M € for the period 2007-2013, is devoted to "The Citizen in the European Union", specifically addressing issues related to achieving a sense of democratic ownership and active participation by Europe's citizens, in the context of the future development of the enlarged European Union[28].

It is evident that this description brings together the principal structures of society outside of government and public administration, including economic actors not generally considered to be "third sector" or NGOs. This has the benefit of being inclusive and demonstrates that the concept of civil society organisations is deeply rooted in the democratic traditions of the Member Sates of the Union.