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NGOs Committee on NGOs Decision on CSI
Posted on the CONGO List-Serv
September 9, 1999
On Tuesday, 7 September 1999 the ECOSOC Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations voted by majority to ask ECOSOC to take action on the Committee's previous recommendation to withdraw consultative status from Christian Solidarity International (CSI).
The Committee had convened in a day-long meeting to hear a statement by, and ask questions of, a CSI representative in order to gather additional information on this matter. A counter-proposal by the US to recommend suspension of consultative status for less than three years, rather than outright expulsion, did not make it to a vote.
The record of votes was 14 member states in favor of recommending action on the prior decision to withdraw consultative status (Algeria, Bolivia, China, Colombia, Cuba, Ethiopia, India, Lebanon, Pakistan, Russian Federation, Senegal, Sudan, Tunisia, and Turkey), one against (USA), and four abstentions (Chile, France, Ireland, and Romania).
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