This final session, which marked the last phase of intergovernmental negotiations, enabled the experts to finalize the text of the preliminary draft convention.
This session adopted a recommendation requesting the General Conference to take into consideration the following title for the Convention: "Preliminary Draft Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions" and to adopt the text at its 33rd session (October 2005). ( Recommendation of the Third Intergovernmental Meeting).
"At some point the world community needs to come together and draft some new convention or treaty, " said Paul Dempsey, director of the Institute of Air and Space Law and McGill University in Montreal.
The First Session of the Intergovernmental Meeting of Experts (20-24 September 2004) took place for an initial exchange of views on the Preliminary Report of the Director-General accompanied by a first Preliminary Draft of the Convention prepared by the group of independent experts and submitted to the Member States in July 2004.
Instead of revising the existing document, the Federal Convention decided to draft an entirely new frame of government.
The position paper - known as the draft Brighton Declaration - says the European Convention should be rewritten so that it includes two key principles.
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That is not how things are going so far: on May 26th-27th, the convention published the first full draft of the constitution but admitted that its members are still greatly divided over the key section on reforming the EU's institutions.
However, the long, rambling draft produced by the 105-member European Convention was so vague on how it assigned powers to various institutions that at times even convention members themselves could not explain it.
The target this time was a draft scheme to enforce the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC), a 1972 treaty banning germ war.
As the convention members tried to satisfy everyone, their draft constitution ended up riddled with botched compromises, anomalies and absurdities.
If enough of them put his name on their draft ballots, he will be invited to speak at the party convention Aug. 11 in Long Beach, California.
However, the draft constitution that EU leaders have been discussing, drawn up by a 105-member European Convention, is a terrible mess.
But some members of the committee released a separate report arguing that the government's draft bill "totally fails" to protect the primacy of the House of Commons and proposing a "constitutional convention" should be set up to consider the issue more widely.
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