The debate is due to climax in a treaty-changing Inter-governmental Conference (IGC) in 2004.
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One area of influence the IGC was assured was the role of nominating experts for key positions.
Overall, the answers by FIFA regarding the handling of alleged misconduct were not fully satisfactory to the IGC.
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The IGC recommended age or term limits for key FIFA figures to reduce the stranglehold that permanent presidencies can have on any organization.
In line with well-established international practices, the IGC recommended that the FIFA leaders disclose their total compensation, including salary, bonus and perquisites.
Abdul Aziz al Hakim, a religious leader with the IGC who is close to Sistani, took part in Monday's meetings at U.N. headquarters.
The IGC had another opportunity to effect change when it proposed independent members on the ExCo in order to encourage more transparency and accountability.
"I have indicated that I don't believe there may be enough time between now and May to hold elections, " he told reporters after meeting coalition and IGC leaders.
At the close of these two days of debate, representatives from the IGC Member States adopted recommendations concerning the direction the Programme will take for the next two years.
The IGC has proposed a neutral, centralized vetting process for members of the ExCo to uncover past misconduct or conflicts of interest that should disqualify the candidates from service.
The Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) and the IGC planned a caucus system for Iraqis to choose a transitional government in June, arguing that infrastructure and stability will not be improved enough to allow for direct elections until next year.
The coalition and IGC have called for Iraqis to choose a transitional government through caucuses, saying there is no time to pull together an electoral infrastructure before the scheduled handover of power to a new Iraqi government by June 30.
As a matter of common sense, the IGC proposed a neutral, independent background review process for new candidates for senior office to reduce the chance that the organization would be embarrassed by inadvertent association with felons and miscreants and to explore possible conflicts of interest.
Opened by Zola Skweyiya, former South African Minister of Social Development and current President of the MOST Intergovernmental Council (IGC) and the Chairperson of the MOST Scientific Advisory Committee, the Egyptian academic, Nazli Choucri, renowned scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), this session had three main highlights.
So far as Europe is concerned and the future shape of Europe, there's a lot of work to be done before the IGC in 2004 and we'll be working very hard to try and establish the benefits of the flexible Europe of nations, which has always been the Conservative view of Europe, and which I think over these last five weeks has proved its value.
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