THE OHRID P.E.N. CONFERENCE 2002

Translation & Linguistic Rights Committee Meeting
of P.E.N. International
September 19, Ohrid, R Macedonia

Delegates from nineteen P.E.N. Centres attended the Meeting of the TaLRC held at the Ohrid Conference 2002. Mr. Carles Torner, the Chair of the Committee at that time, conducted and presided over the meeting.


Agenda:

1. A Report on the Committee's work between the two Assemblies
2. Adoption of the Committee's Constitution
3. Adoption of the Committee's Standing Orders
4. Making a decision for transfer of the Hosting Centre from Barcelona, Spain to Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
5. Election of a new President and a Vice-President of the Committee
6. Program Principles and Program Projects for the following three-year term of office
7. Resolutions proposed to the Assembly at the 68th Congress of the International P.E.N.

At the Session of the General Assembly of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee of the International P.E.N. in Ohrid the texts for the Constitution and the Standing orders regulating the Committee's work, in three language versions, English, French, and Spanish, as official languages of the International P.E.N., were looked upon. Several notices were given about the function of the Committee, propositions for defining the rules of procedure about the site of the Committee, and suggestions about Committee's work in the following three years.

A resolution was passed to replenish and authorize the Member list of the Committee instantly after the change of the Hosting Centre the Committee's offices.

A decision was unanimously reached to transfer the Host Center and the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee's Offices from Barcelona and the foregoing Host Center Catalan P.E.N. to Skopje and the Macedonian P.E.N. Center as a Host of the Committee and its Offices.

A decision was reached a new President and a new Vice-President of the Committee to be elected. Prof. Kata Kulavkova, an honorary vice-president of the Macedonian P.E.N. Centre, was elected as a new President. Carles Torner, a writer from Barcelona and the foregoing President, was elected as a Vice-President. He is also going to be the Chair of the sub-committee for the Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights in Barcelona.

A decision was reached the new Board to prepare the Committee's Program of Activities for the following three-year term of office.

A decision was reached that the changes and the amendments of the draft Constitution will be included, based on the discussion, by the President and the Vice-President.

The proposed Resolution of the Tatar P.E.N. was adopted.

All the decisions were sent to the Assembly of the International P.E.N., which unanimously confirmed them at its Plenary Session held on 20th September 2002 in Ohrid, during the 68th World Congress of the International P.E.N. At the Assembly's Session, Carles Torner, the foregoing President and member of the Board of the International P.E.N., presented his report and, after the election, gave a speech on behalf of the Committee and the new President, Kata Kulavkova.


The following P.E.N. representatives took part at the TaLRC Meeting:

1. Carles Torner, Catalan P.E.N. Centre, president of the CTaLR
2. Kata Kulavkova, Macedonian P.E.N. Centre
3. Girogio Silfer, Esperanto P.E.N. Centre
4. Ljubomir Trifuncovski, Esperanto P.E.N. Centre
5. Anna Gerasimova, Belorussian P.E.N. Centre
6. Boris Panteleev, Belorussian P.E.N. Centre
7. Alexander Tkachenko, Russian P.E.N. Centre
8. Akhat Mushinsky, Tatar P.E.N. Centre
9. Kata Beherens, German P.E.N. Centre
10. Aslang A. Eidsvik, Norwegian P.E.N. Centre
11. Solheim Odd Gunnar, Norwegian P.E.N. Centre
12. Dimitar Basevski, Macedonian P.E.N. Centre
13. Zoran Anchevski, Macedonian P.E.N. Centre
14. Anna Hakoyban, Armenian P.E.N. Centre
15. Susanne Nicklie, English P.E.N. Centre
16. Liljana Dufran, Swedish P.E.N. Centre
17. Robert Dorsman, Danish P.E.N. Centre
18. Emile Martel, Quebec P.E.N. Centre
19. Sibila Petlevski, Croatian P.E.N. Centre
20. Fatma Moussa Mahmud, Egyptian P.E.N. Centre
21. Holm Kjell, Norwegian P.E.N. Centre
22. Alek Popov, Bulgarian P.E.N. Centre
23. Gaby Vallejo, Bolivian P.E.N. Centre
24. Ernst Hemmaye, German P.E.N. Centre
25. Liersch Werner, German P.E.N. Centre
26. Rossen Argues, Catalan P.E.N. Centre
27. Carme Arenas, Catalan P.E.N. Centre
28. Christos Paputsakis, Greece, guest
29. Todor Calovski, Macedonian P.E.N. Centre
30. Elizabeth Nordgren, Finish P.E.N. Centre

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