Author: Santeri Junttila
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ADDRESS
of the participants of the VI. Congress
of the Youth Association of Finno-Ugric Peoples MAFUN
to the Consultative Committee of Finno-Ugric Peoples

The Youth Association of Finno-Ugric Peoples MAFUN, being one of the first organisations of Finno-Ugric Peoples of the world, continues to hold the leading position in pursuit of rapprochement of cognate peoples, cooperating in favour of these peoples on the basis of concrete project activities. Also, MAFUN accomplishes nowadays a significant and complicated task of the junction of young people – representatives of Finno-Ugric Peoples to the problems of revival, development and popularisation of national cultures of cognate peoples. In the conditions of the globalising world the objectives of this kind become more and more relevant with every day. This fact is witnessed also in the choice of the main theme of the IV. World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples, which is devoted to the questions of the youth.

	In current situation the Congress notes with regret weak cooperation of such leading organisational forces of the Finno-Ugric world as the World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples and the Youth Association of Finno-Ugric Peoples. However, the Congress of MAFUN today is the World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples tomorrow. The is no doubt that the lack of activities coordination does not assist to the movement forward, does not favour achievement of posed goals and objectives. The Congress of MAFUN thinks fence-mending cooperation and organisation of concrete joint activities to be a crucial goal. In order to achieve this goal the Congress of MAFUN puts forward to the Consultative Committee of Finno-Ugric Peoples as the executive body of the World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples following proposals:

-	to invite for participation in the work of the World Congress the delegation of MAFUN;
-	to request the Consultative Committee to draw attention of the representative bodies of Finno-Ugric Peoples to necessity to include into the delegations from peoples to the World Congress the young delegates – representatives of youth ethnonational organisations;
-	to include representatives of MAFUN in the list of participants of sessions of the Consultative Committee for preparation of the World Congress in capacity of observers;
-	to consider the possibility of permanent participation of MAFUN representatives in the work of the Consultative Committee with the right of deciding vote.