APGreeNs

Background

• The Asia Pacific Greens Network (APGN) is a federation of national Green parties, social and environmental organizations from countries across Asia and Oceania (see the Network page for links and more details).
• The APGN is a member of the Global Greens and occupies three seats on the 12-member Global Greens Coordination (GCC) panel. The current APGN represenatives are Ms Margaret Blakers (Australia), Ms Satoko Watanabe (Japan) and Mr. Solomon Fifita (Tonga).

Brief History & Aims

• Loosely founded in 2000 following the Asia Pacifc Greens Politics Workshop held in Brisbane, Australia.
• Green parties from 13 member nations then met in February 2005 in Kyoto, Japan to formally establish the network and basic operational protocols. The main outcomes of the first Congress were to:

1. Facilitate information exchange and networking between APGN members.
2. Work towards implementation of the Global Greens Charter.
3. Participate more fully in Global Greens' organizational and political activities.

The Second Congress of the Asia Pacific Greens Network will comprise a formal APGN meeting where we review our rules, elect representatives to the Global Greens Coordination steering committee and APGN membership panel, and discuss other organisational priorities. Groups who wish to be part of the decision-making process, but are not yet members, should apply to become APGN members in a timely manner prior to the Congress in May 2010. Information on how to go about this is available from Miriam Solomon of the APGN Membership Panel at miriams@iinet.net.au, or from the Membership Panel email list,APGN_membership@yahoogroups.com. Groups which have already been granted full membership should nominate three delegates as soon as possible so they can join the delegates email list.