Protokoll 2003 - Seko

Onsdagen den 17 september 2003
Förmiddagens förhandlingar
Dagens förhandlingar började kl 8.30.
Kulturinslag
Dagen inleddes med programmet ”Kultursmörgås” med Ord och ton.
Mötesordförande: Eva Sjöstedt
Sekreterare: Yvonne Hansson
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Nomineringen till valet av valberedning förklarades avslutad.
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Tal av UNIs vice ordförande
Jan Rudén, förbundsordförande: Förbundskamrater! Jag har det stora
nöjet att hälsa hjärtligt välkommen till Philip Bowyer från UNI – UNI är
det nya namnet på den gamla Post- och teleinternationalen som nu är sammanslagen
med ett antal andra internationaler.
Välkommen upp i talarstolen, Philip! I welcome you to Stockholm and to
our congress. You are very welcome – the floor is yours!
Vice generalsekreterare Philip Bowyer, UNI: Thank you very much! I am
a Welshman. Welshmen are very famous for talking too much. But don't
worry!
First of all let me thank you for giving me this opportunity to address your
congress on behalf of UNI and its 15 million members throughout the
world. All of us throughout the world were shocked at the death last week
of Anna Lindh, and it would be impossible for me to make a speech without
mentioning this tragic event and to bring to you the sympathy of all
people throughout UNI and throughout the world for this tragic loss by the
senseless violence.
We also hope that it will give people the chance to reflect on this question
of violence which is affecting many countries and many societies and
which is a major concern of citizens throughout the world. I am very lucky
– I live in a small country, Switzerland, where our politicians – you see
them on the buses, you see them on the trains, you see them in the shops,
and there is no enormous security. It has never been felt necessary, and
that adds to that valuable sense of freedom in our society, which was the
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