A convention of provincial representatives met in Santa Fe; dominated by the federalists under Rosas, they called on the governor of Santa Fe to take steps against the Lavalle regime.
About 16 months ago, when the European Union began a constitutional convention of 105 representatives to create a document that would bind more than 25 nations in a new civil union, who knows what might have been possible?
The development minister, Augusto Ramirez, said that if agreement is reached on the second enclave, a national convention of civilian representatives, the Roman Catholic Church and the international community would start immediately to pave the way to full-scale talks with the rebels, which President Pastrana said he hoped could start within nine months.
They call a special convention, supposedly composed of representatives who are directly representative of the people.
To this end, following the interminable rows that marred the EU summit in Nice in 2000, the Union's leaders set up the 105-strong European Convention, made up of representatives from the current and future members, to draw up a new constitution for the EU and to lay out clearly the areas in which the Union will and will not hold sway over member countries.
- (FR) I was very happy to learn, last June, that the Cologne European Council had decided to convene a Convention (made up of representatives of the Heads of State and Government, the European Parliament, the national parliaments and the Commission) that would be responsible for drafting a Charter of Fundamental Rights.
The convention is made up of representatives from member states and from the commission.
In January 1852 he was present when the Transvaal leader, Andries Pretorius, concluded the Sand River Convention with representatives of Great Britain, by which the independence of the Afrikaners (Boers) north of the Vaal River was recognized.
Most observers interpreted the arrests as a warning to the only independent voices in the convention, the representatives of former rebel groups and ethnic minorities, not to rock the boat.
The choice of those who will represent their countries, their national parliaments or the European Parliament is of particular importance in this context, and we must ensure at all costs that the Convention does not consist solely of representatives of the large European families of parties.
