That the National Executive Council condemns in strongest terms the continued massive Soviet military intervention and repression in Afghanistan. National Executive Council calls on the Canadian Government to make every peaceful effort to protest the Soviet presence in Afghanistan and calls on the Soviet Union to withdraw its troops immediately from Afghanistan. CARRIED
1. the standing committees presently funding ecumenical coalitions to take the above priorities into account in developing grants to coalitions in 1997;
2. those standing committees whose coalition work is funded by the apportionment budget to allow some loosening of the "coalition baskets" in order to permit movement of unallocated funds outside the "baskets" to coalitions that have successfully remandated;
3. the Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples to consider becoming a funding partner of The Aboriginal Rights Coalition in 1997. CARRIED #35-03-96