Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats

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The Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats is a regional organization of liberal and democratic political parties in Asia. The Council was created on October 15, 1993, in a meeting in Taipei. There are ten member parties, an associate member, and two parties with observer status:

Full members

• Burma: National Council of the Union of Burma
• Cambodia: Sam Rainsy Party
• Indonesia: Indonesian Democratic Party - Struggle
• Malaysia: Malaysian People's Movement Party
• Mongolia: Civil Will Party
• Philippines: Liberal Party
• Singapore: Singapore Democratic Party
• Sri Lanka: Liberal Party of Sri Lanka
• Taiwan: Democratic Progressive Party
• Thailand: Democrat Party

Associate member

• Pakistan: Liberal Forum Pakistan

Observer parties

• Indonesia: National Awakening Party
• Japan: Democratic Party of Japan

The now defunct Buddhist Liberal Democratic Party of Cambodia was one of the founding members.

Currently, many democrats in Asia have a relationship with CALD. CALD has also opened its membership to like-minded individuals, and regularly engages with non-member political parties from Japan and South Korea with which it shares the same democratic values. The Democratic Party of Japan is one of the examples. On the other hand, for the convenience of particular members, they also accept individual members like the situation in Hong Kong. The Democratic Party of Hong Kong is represented in CALD by Martin Lee and Sin Chung Kai. The third individual member of the CALD is Indonesia's ex-President Abdurrahman Wahid. Aung San Suu Kyi is honorary member of CALD.

External links

• Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats official site