Convening Group

The core of the Community is the Convening Group. It is the group’s initiatives that lead to activities aimed at supporting democratic processes in individual countries. The activities consist of organization of seminars, trainings for local elites, organization of consultations in individual countries’ capitals, issuing common statements, working out stances on issues important to the international community, and sending expert missions to individual countries. Community’s member countries meet every two years during a Ministerial Conference on Foreign Ministers level. In the past those meetings were held in Warsaw, Seoul, Santiago de Chile and Bamako. This year the Ministerial Conference was held in Lisbon, capital of the state holding the Presidency of the Community. Since July 12 2009 Lithuania took over the Community’s Presidency.

Members of the Convening Group: