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Alyona Getmanchuk, Director of the IWP, and Leniod Litra, Senior Research Fellow, attended 8th Ministerial Conference of the Community of Democracies, held on July 22-24 in San Salvador.The Ministerial Conference gathered 800 participants from over 80 countries, including government representatives, representatives of civil society, parliaments, the private sector, and youth for designated forums.
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Ukraine awas represented by the Ambassador of Ukraine in Mexico Ruslan Spirin.
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The leading theme for El Salvador’s Presidency is “Democracy and Development.” The program declaration of the Salvadoran Presidency, presented in 2013, states that “Democracy and social development complement each other – democracy cannot be established without economic and social development, and no economic strategy can prosper without democratic legitimacy.”

Thus, the Ministerial Conference in San Salvador addressed issues in accordance with this topic, and use the topic of development as a main reference point for discussion. Participants examined a variety of relevant questions, including inclusion and social development, youth and citizenship, participatory democracy, sustainable development, and the struggle against poverty.

A second central theme for the conference was the connection between democracy and the culture of peace. Drawing from El Salvador’s experience as a country that rose from a bloody civil war to a regional model of democracy, participants discussed ways in which democracy and peace correlate and strengthen each other.