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LI President Welcomes Pardon for Exiled Opposition Leader

LI President Hans van Baalen MEP has extended his congratulations the leader of Cambodia’s National Opposition leader and CALD (LI Cooperating Organisation) Chairman, Sam Rainsy, on the Royal Pardon which has enabled him to return to...
LI President Addresses Prominent European Politicians in Georgia

LI President, Hans van Baalen MEP, has been a key-note speaker at an international conference in Batumi, Georgia where a number of high-level European Parliamentarians convened to discuss the European Parliament’s role in the process...
VP Harris on Zimbabwe elections: 'Mugabe failed in democratic obligations'
LI Vice President on the Bureau and Shadow Finance Spokesman for the Democratic Alliance (DA – LI Full Member), Tim Harris MP, has condemned preparations ahead of elections in Zimbabwe at the end of July, saying that there has been “too little reform”.
DP Thailand high delegation at LI HQs
Liberal International welcomed at its headquarters a high delegation from Democrat Party (Thailand, LI full member), led by the Deputy Leader Apirak Kosayodhin MP and Chuenchob Kongudom MP, Member of the House of Representatives from the Bangkok region.
Liberals outraged as Putin uses courts for political reprisals
Liberals expressed outrage at the arbitrary and politically motivated sentencing of prominent Russian dissident and blogger, Alexei Navalny, and Peter Ofitserov of Yabloko (LI Full Member). LI Vice-President on the Bureau and German Human Rights Commissioner, Markus Löning, condemned the...
New interim cabinet sworn in Egypt
Prominent liberal and founder of LI Full Member Democratic Front Party (DFP) Hazem al Beblawy, is to lead the interim governing authority in Egypt, aimed at stabilising the country and preparing inclusive, free and fully democratic elections. 
Featherstone on UK Same-Sex Marriage: "Both Liberal and Progressive"
Liberal Democrats (LI full member) in government delivered on their election promise to legalise same-sex marriage in the UK. With final third round of vote in the Houses of Commons and Lords, and the approval from Her Majesty the Queen, the United Kingdom became the second permanent member of...
Finnish Liberal Elected OSCE High Commissioner on Minority Rights
Liberal International welcomes the appointment of a prominent member of the liberal family Astrid Thors, MP and former Minister from Svenska Folkpartiet (Finland, LI Full Member) as the next High Commissioner on National Minorities of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

The next edition of Li News will follow on 25 July, 2013