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Livni to launch campaign to bar terrorist groups from office

By Barak Ravid , Haaretz Correspondent

Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni plans to launch a diplomatic campaign to convince the world that terrorist organizations should no longer be allowed to field candidates for office in elections.

The campaign, which will open during her visit to the United Nations this week for the 62nd General Assembly, stems from Israel's experience of the Hamas victory in the January 2006 Palestinian Authority elections.

During meetings with international leaders and diplomats, Livni will present criteria that organizations should be required to meet in order to participate in democratic elections. She hopes that her proposal will attract sufficient international support to produce a UN resolution on the matter.

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Her ultimate goal is an international agreement on rules governing who will and will not be permitted to participate in democratic elections, and what standards candidates must meet. Among the criteria Livni will propose is preventing organizations with a paramilitary character or that advocate racist ideologies from participating in elections.

Although the program is meant to be applied worldwide, the foreign minister intends to use the example of Hamas - a terrorist organization that came to power through democratic means but then imposed its nondemocratic agenda through the power of the gun - as a selling point.

After Livni inaugurates the campaign, Israel's ambassadors around the world will continue promoting the program in the countries where they serve, while the foreign minister will seek to advance it in various international forums.

Upon arriving in New York Sunday, Livni told Haaretz: "It is a shameful for the UN and the world that [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad is coming here [to the General Assembly] and will also give an address at Columbia University."

Livni will participate Monday in a meeting of donor nations to the Palestinian Authority that will be held at UN headquarters. The conference, chaired by Norway, will also be attended by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, representatives of Arab donor states, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the Quartet representative, former British prime minister Tony Blair.

Blair will present the forum with his plans for helping the Palestinians build institutions that would promote economic growth in the territories. Livni will present the steps that Israel intends to take to help the PA.

The foreign minister will also participate in a world forum on climate change, where she will discuss Israel's ability to contribute to the international effort through its technological innovations in developing alternative energy sources.

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1.	Fine...IF Things Are Even/FAIR & Terrorism Is PROPERLY Defined.	04:36	\|	Proud Pal Defender	24/09/07

2.	Suppressing popular parties just destroys	04:54	\|	spyguy	24/09/07

3.	livini launches campaign against terrorist organizations	04:54	\|	Smith	24/09/07

4.	Hamas and Hizbollah born due to Israels mistakes	04:55	\|	Natallie Durson	24/09/07

5.	Which UN is she going to?	05:25	\|	Mike	24/09/07

6.	He He and who will decide who is terrorist & who is not?	05:48	\|	Moise	24/09/07

7.	Livni laaunches campaign to bar her father from office...	06:00	\|	SD	24/09/07

8.	according to Livin elections can no longer be held in Israel	06:04	\|	nobodysacred	24/09/07

9.	A couple questions for Tzipi	06:19	\|	Natallie Durson	24/09/07

10.	Columbia University	06:32	\|	Steve Real	24/09/07

11.	Fine.	07:26	\|	sam	24/09/07

12.	OCCUPATION IS THE MOST UNDEMOCRATIC OF ALL	08:08	\|	indrajaya	24/09/07

13.	To Steve Real	08:08	\|	Student	24/09/07

14.	PPD	09:29	\|	Margie in Tel Aviv	24/09/07

15.	Livni to launch campaign	09:46	\|	Abe	24/09/07

16.	Shallow Livni	09:59	\|	Steve the Pals	24/09/07

17.	What?	10:02	\|	Mohammed	24/09/07

18.	On Democracy	10:11	\|	RightClick	24/09/07

19.	Netanyahu is next	10:26	\|	Hannah	24/09/07

20.	whose the terrorist? Israel, the colonialist occupier?	11:00	\|	American	24/09/07

21.	Two Israeli Terrorist already elected...	11:08	\|	POP	24/09/07

22.	WHY Livni is a Joke	11:24	\|	Jacob for TRUTH	24/09/07

23.	Israel was created through terror!!!	11:50	\|	Simba	24/09/07

24.	Incredible insolence!	12:26	\|	Boycott	24/09/07

25.	PPD: Fatah & Hamas have always targeted civilians	13:00	\|	Margie in Tel Aviv	24/09/07

26.	Terror orgs and politics	13:02	\|	Lynn	24/09/07

27.	Occupation =Terrorism	13:08	\|	Mary	24/09/07

28.	great....	13:35	\|	ravi	24/09/07

29.	lynn.....26...are you the same lynn?	13:41	\|	ravi	24/09/07

30.	Honesty about Occupation	14:08	\|	Jacob for TRUTH	24/09/07

31.	#13 Student	14:10	\|	Sarah	24/09/07

32.	The breathtaking arrogance of the Terrorist State of Israel	14:45	\|	Clickfool	24/09/07

33.	To Sarah	14:58	\|	Student	24/09/07

34.	What about banning	15:05	\|	Chris Linthwaite	24/09/07

35.	#14 Margie, Murderers should be tried in a court of law	15:24	\|	Kevin	24/09/07

36.	LIVNI-PARTNER TO DEPORTATION OF 10000 JEWS FROM GAZA STRIP. MUST	15:27	\|	BE BARRED FROM OFFIC	24/09/07

37.	This should be amusing	15:46	\|	Mike	24/09/07

38.	Ha´aretz: this time I protest: where is my letter praising Livni?	15:46	\|	Alice of Wonderland	24/09/07

39.	So no IDF officer will ever be allowed to run again	16:01	\|	Stephen Murray	24/09/07

40.	Crazy Hannah	16:13	\|	Hannah	24/09/07

41.	Good move. It will outlaw kadima, likud etc.	16:23	\|	Jens	24/09/07

42.	Islamic groups that oppose freedom dont deserve freedom	16:30	\|	Hal	24/09/07

43.	That`s funny....Sharon? Barak? Begin?	16:46	\|	David James Vickery	24/09/07

44.	Terrorists that run	19:39	\|	Paul	24/09/07

45.	Vickery	19:46	\|	Paul	24/09/07

46.	Livni to launch campaign to bar terrorist groups from office	22:07	\|	JR	24/09/07

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