On the occasion of the International Day of Democracy a meeting of the Parliamentary Forum of the Community of Democracies was held in Washington DC. During the meeting the PFD adopted the ‘Washington Declaration’ that set out the establishment of the Secretariat of the Parliamentary Forum of the Community of Democracies in Vilnius. The state of democracy in Eastern Europe and Latin America was also discussed. Speeches were given by many participants including: João Vale de Almeida, EU Ambassador to the US; United States Senator John McCain; Mr. Zbigniew Romaszewski, Deputy Marshal of the Polish Senate and others.