It was the first organisation to provide a common umbrella under which Labour supporters and Liberal Democrats could legitimately join together in pursuit of commonobjectives without being branded as traitors.
And we, yesterday, had at the State Department with Secretary Clinton an extremely fruitful meeting of the groups of Afghan ministries and their counterparts in the U.S. government, outlining the progress we have made in the past several years and our aspirations for the future and our commonobjectives towards the future as we travel along.
The Ministerial Conference followed the international experts' working group, consisting of representatives of Ministries of Culture, and proposed to establish a new unified ministerial platform on culture and development in South-Eastern Europe, in cooperation with UNESCO, the Council of Europe and the European Union, and with the goal to advance commonobjectives and create synergies amongst the various existing ministerial cooperation mechanisms.