Beyond Ideological Blocs: The ICDPP’s New Intercontinental Political Dialogue — The Diplomat

In September 2026, political leaders and party representatives from Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Europe gathered in Seoul to launch a new forum: the Inter-Continental Dialogue among Political Parties (ICDPP). Your correspondent attended the inaugural meeting as part of the CDP delegation and spoke with Chung Eui-yong about how the ICDPP emerged and the principle behind it. The inaugural meeting brought together 23 political parties from 23 countries, including 19 governing and four opposition parties. Participants included Chung Eui-yong, chair of the Standing Committee of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP) and former South Korean foreign minister; Mushahid Hussain Sayed of the Pakistan Muslim League, a former information and broadcasting minister; Adem Farah Ibrahim, Ethiopia’s deputy prime minister and vice president of the ruling Prosperity Party; Milton Morrison of the Dominican Republic, vice president of the Permanent Conference of Political Parties of Latin America and the Caribbean (COPPPAL) and leader of the País Posible party; Zsolt Németh of Hungary, chair of the European Conservatives, Patriots and Affiliates group in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe; and Maiko Tajima, director of the International Department of Japan’s Constitutional Democratic Party. The variety of political traditions represented in Seoul is central to understanding the ICDPP. This is not a forum limited to ideologically like-minded parties. Its purpose is to…