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| Good Wishes from Abroad, Media Interest for New Leadership |
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Following the successful Cairo meetings, international liberal leaders congratulated the Network of Arab Liberals (NAL) and expressed their support for the newly elected President Mr. Mohamed Tamaldou of Morocco. In a congratulatory message, The Lord Alderdice, President of Liberal International, the world federation of liberal parties, said he was looking forward to an intensive cooperation in the future. Speaking on behalf of "the liberals from all parts of the world", Lord Alderdice congratulated the NAL-leaders and said that he was inspired by the recent progress in creating the Arab liberal network. Meanwhile, the President of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Liberty (FNF), Dr. Wolfgang Gerhardt, who is a member of the Federal German Parliament in Berlin, sent a congratulatory note to the newly elected leader of NAL and said that the liberal Foundation is "committed to promote the cooperation of liberal parties in the Arab world". Several member NAL-member parties participate in Liberal International activities and the FNF has supported the network through educative programs and consultancies. |
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| Dr. Wolfgang Gerhardt, President of Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Liberty |
Lord Alderdice, President of Liberal International |
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Numerous journalists from Egypt and other Arab countries attended the Cairo activities. On the sidelines of the conference, the newly elected NAL-leaders gave interviews to Television channels and newspaper journalists. In a special program, Nile TV International, the government controlled Egyptian English-language TV-station, interviewed NAL-Executive Board Member Wael Nanwara on the objectives of the Network and the political environment for liberal politics in the Arab world. Several political websites picked up the news and reported about the ground breaking NAL activities in Cairo.
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