The post communist record shows that the countries that reformed most successfully are also the most democratic indeed, as democratic as any in the West. The worst economic outcomes in the region are found in countries that have diverged from democracy.

Western capitalism s model of a society based on near universal affluence and liberal democracy looks increasingly ineffective compared to the competition. Authoritarian countries middle classes may push their leaders toward greater democracy, as in Russia, but Western democracies will also likely become more authoritarian.

86. The observers for Cuba, Mexico, Egypt, the Democratic People apos s Republic of Korea, Brazil, Zaire, Indonesia and the Lao People apos s Democratic Republic generally stressed that an atmosphere of hostility had developed towards the diplomatic community in connection with the new Programme.

Just a half century earlier, one could count the number of Western democracies on one s fingers. And even these were imperfect using the most basic democratic yardstick universal suffrage the United States could not be seen as truly democratic until the civil rights victories of the 1960 s.

Even the great western democracies have not fully involved their minorities in the political process.

Indonesia was now the third largest democratic country in the world.

In a democracy, Cathy, everyone is entitled to a fair trial.

China is not like the West, and it will not become like the West.

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They are transported in large numbers westwards. Some of them remain in prostitution in Poland, Hungary and the Baltic States and other former communist countries bordering the West, while others continue further to various Western countries.

A truly democratic Government, of course, was not necessarily one patterned after the Western model, which the developed countries were trying to impose on all others, regardless of their specific circumstances.

And the ones over there, they were so called Western countries.

As the largest democracy, with secularism at its heart, and as the second largest Islamic society in the world, we feel that we do not need any lessons from either the Western democracies or the self appointed guardians of Islam.

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Western and Japan

Mr. Pak (Democratic People's Republic of Korea), speaking on a point of order, asked the Chairman to remind the representative of New Zealand that the official name of his country was not North Korea but Democratic People's Republic of Korea and that he should respect that official name.

71. The First Conference of the Americas on New or Restored Democracies is planned to take place in Costa Rica in 1999, organized by the Programma Centroamericano para la Sostenibilidad Democratica together with the United Nations University of Peace, to follow up on the recommendations of the Third International Conference of the New or Restored Democracies.

Six countries are participating in the project Brazil, Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Sudan, United Republic of Tanzania and Zimbabwe.

II. Follow up process to the Third International Conference of New or Restored Democracies on Democracy and Development

38. It was noted that the United Nations press corps in New York and Geneva were heavily weighted in favour of Western countries.

Statements in explanation of vote after the vote were made by the representatives of Mexico, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Cuba, the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, France and Uruguay.

Now we in the West overwhelmingly seem to think in these days at least that the authority and legitimacy of the state is a function of democracy.

Young people want to understand democratic systems locally, nationally and internationally.

Bangladesh , Cuba, Democratic People's Republic of Korea , Guinea, Indonesia, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (on behalf of States members of the Arab Group), Malaysia, Pakistan, Togo, and Zimbabwe draft resolution

Through this Fund, democratic States will work to help others join the democratic family.

No map can work when some Asian nations are Western (Japan, Taiwan), when non Western groups (Muslims in Europe) live in supposedly Western countries, when some Eastern countries are partially Westernized and some Western countries (Russia) are not fully Westernized. Eventually it looks easier to define the mental borders of the West than its territorial borders.

No map can work when some Asian nations are Western (Japan, Taiwan), when non Western groups (Muslims in Europe) live in supposedly Western countries, when some Eastern countries are partially Westernized and some Western countries (Russia) are not fully Westernized. Eventually it looks easier to define the mental borders of the West than its territorial borders.

RESTORED DEMOCRACIES Letter dated 27 March 1998 from the Chargé d apos affaires a.i. of

Brazil was still, in many ways, a developing country it ranked fifteenth among Latin American and Caribbean countries in terms of gross national product (GNP) per capita and seventy second on the Human Development Index.

Abstaining Brazil, China, Cuba, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Egypt, Ireland, Israel, Mexico, Myanmar, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sweden

In the early 1990 s, many westerners and Russians wanted Russia to become a full fledged member of both the European Union and NATO, on the condition that Russia became a full fledged democracy. Unfortunately, the West never made that offer, and Russian democracy went astray.

For the Unites States, the European Union, Japan, and other members of the Old West, the good news is that most of the emerging powers that are positioning themselves for a more active global role are also democracies. Within the G 20, only two states China and Saudi Arabia explicitly do not want to be liberal democracies, while a third, Russia, has developed into an autocracy with a democratic façade.

Welcoming the positive contribution which Nigeria has been making through the Economic Community of West African States in support of democratic governance within the West African region,

10. The Democracy Forum is a discussion platform within the framework of the Conference of New or Restored Democracies.

Western democracies have prided themselves on institutional checks and balances, but obviously these mechanisms did not work during the crisis or the preceding boom. And they have been a recipe for policy paralysis in America s long debate about raising the ceiling on its national debt.

National reunification policy of the Government of the Democratic People s Republic of Korea

Abstaining Bhutan, Brazil, China, Cuba, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Egypt, Ireland, Israel, Mexico, Myanmar, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sweden

Democracy s Burning Ships

The United States of America is a democratic country.

Now, I know it's a widespread assumption in the West that as countries modernize, they also westernize.

The dissemination of democratic norms from the advanced countries of the West to the rest of the world has been perhaps the most significant benefit of globalization. Yet not all is well with democracy.

Took note of the one year extensions of the country programmes for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Liberia

During the cold war they served to establish a balance between the civil and political rights supposedly respected by the western democracies as against the economic, social and cultural rights on which emphasis was laid by the countries with centralized planning.

There is no such thing as a Western world and developing world.

And we had one set of countries up there which was the western world.