Platform
Plaid Cymru's goals as set out in its constitution are:
- To promote the constitutional advancement of Wales with a view to attaining independence within the European Union;
- To ensure economic prosperity, social justice and the health of the natural environment, based on decentralist socialism;
- To build a national community based on equal citizenship, respect for different traditions and cultures and the equal worth of all individuals, whatever their race, nationality, gender, colour, creed, sexuality, age, ability or social background;
- To create a bilingual society by promoting the revival of the Welsh language;
- To promote Wales's contribution to the global community and to attain membership of the United Nations.
In September 2008, a senior Plaid Cymru assembly member spelled out her party's continuing support for an independent Wales. The Welsh Minister for Rural Affairs, Elin Jones, kicked off Plaid's annual conference by pledging to uphold the goal of making Wales a European Union member state. She told the delegates in Aberystwyth that the party would continue its commitment to independence under the coalition with Labour.
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