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PEN Congress Resolutions and Recommendations
July 06, 2006
Please find below, as downloadable Microsoft Word documents, the Resolutions and Recommendations from the 72nd Congress of International PEN and the cover letter from the Director of International PEN. The Executive Director’s letter is also pasted below.
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Download the Adopted Resolutions and Recommendations at 72nd Congress, Berlin 2006
Dear Friends,
The 72nd Congress of International PEN in Berlin, Germany was attended by over 450 delegates and participants from 85 Centres. We would like to congratulate German PEN for the tremendous success of the Congress and thank them for the wonderful hospitality they showed to the delegates.
Please find enclosed:
1. The Reports given to the Assembly from the dialogue workshops that took place on the morning of Friday 26th May are enclosed with this letter.
2. The Resolutions adopted by the Assembly of Delegates are also enclosed with this letter. They include four Amending Resolutions to the Regulations, concerning the Charitable Incorporation of International PEN.
3. In addition to the Resolutions and Recommendations, the following decisions were taken during the Berlin Assembly:
(a) Jiří Gruša (Austrian, Czech, German Centres) was re-elected as International President for a second term of three years.
(b) Cecilia Balcázar (Colombian Centre) and Eugene Schoulgin (Norwegian Centre) were elected to the Board (Eugene Schoulgin for a second term of office) They are both elected for a three-year term.
(c) J. M. Coetzee and Toni Morrison were elected as Vice-Presidents of International PEN for services to literature. Gloria Guardia (Panamanian Centre) was elected as a Vice-President for services to PEN.
(d) Judith Buckrich (Melbourne Centre) was re-elected Chair of the Women Writers Committee for a further three-year term. Her election was ratified by the Assembly of Delegates.
(e) Carles Torner stood down and was replaced as Vice-Chair of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee by Josep Maria Terricabras, member of the Catalan Centre.
(f) Three new Centres were elected as member Centres of International PEN: the Jamaican Centre, the Pretoria Centre and the Uruguayan Centre, making a total of 144 Centres in 101 countries.
(g) The Three-year Plan for the work of International PEN was endorsed.
3. Date of next meeting: 4th to 11th July, Dakar, Senegal
An updated list of Centres with contact details reflecting the above changes will follow. Please note that the 2005 Annual Report is now available to download on the International PEN website.
With best wishes,
Caroline McCormick (Formerly Whitaker)
Executive Director
Comments:
Please let me know how I can join International Pen. I am already a US member. Sorry, but I couldn’t find this info on the website.
I am alarmed that the resolution on defamation omits mention of the need that such published material be TRUTHFUL and not skewed nor spun, nor may it deliberately omit information that would prove the opposite of the writer’s thesis.