List of Speakers

XXIII Congress of the Socialist International, Athens, 30 June - 02 July 2008

Morning Session, theme 1: Acting now on Climate Change to achieve a sustainable world society 

 

Keynote speakers

Ricardo Lagos, former President of Chile and a Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General on Climate Change, Co-Chair of the Socialist International Commission for a Sustainable World Society

Göran Persson, former Prime Minister of Sweden, Co-Chair of the Socialist International Commission for a Sustainable World Society

Beatriz Paredes, President of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI, Mexico, Member of the Socialist International Commission for a Sustainable World Society

Eero Heinäluoma, Social Democratic Party, Finland

Ousmane Tanor Dieng, First Secretary of the Socialist Party, PS, Senegal, Chair of the Socialist International Africa Committee

Sue West, Australia Labor Party

Olav Akselsen, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Parliamentary Committee, Norwegian Labour Party, DNA

Elio Di Rupo, Minister of State, Leader of the Socialist Party, PS, Belgium, Member of the Socialist International Commission for a Sustainable World Society

Joseph Muscat, Leader of the Malta Labour Party

Ebrahim Ebrahim, Member of the National Executive Committee for International Affairs, African National Congress, ANC, South Africa

 

Afternoon Session, Panel One - How to arrive successfully at a post-2012 regime?

Cristina Narbona, former Minister of the Environment, Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, PSOE, Spain, Member of the Socialist International Commission for a Sustainable World Society 

Sandip Dixsit, Member of Parliament, Indian National Congress, India

Alexa McDonough, Member of Parliament, former Leader of the New Democratic Party, Canada

Elenko Bozhkov, Vice-President of the Social Democratic Party, PBSD, Bulgaria, Secretary of Energy and Economic Committee

Alejandro Encinas, Party of Democratic Revolution, PRD, Mexico

Alejandro Sule, International Secretary, Radical Social Democratic Party, PRSD, Chile

Rafael Michelini, Leader of the New Space party, Uruguay

Rolando Araya, Costa Rica

Paulo Pisco, International Department, Socialist Party, Portugal

 

Keynote speaker

Alfred Gusenbauer, Chancellor of Austria, Social Democratic Party of Austria, SPOe

 

Panel Two - How do we strengthen the multilateral architecture for a sustainable future?

Carol Browner, Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency under President Bill Clinton, Member of Socialist International Commission for a Sustainable World Society

Sergey Mironov, Chairman of the Council of the Russian Federation, Chair of the Party for a Just Russia, Member of Socialist International Commission for a Sustainable World Society

Zhang Zhijun, Vice-Minister of China

Jesús Caldera, former Minister of Employment and Social Affairs, Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, PSOE, Spain

 

Theme II: Working for a World in Peace, to resolve conflicts and overcome instability
 

Keynote speakers
 

Mona Sahlin, Leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, SAP

H.E. Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian National Authority, Leader of Fatah

Ehud Barak, Minister of Defence, Leader of the Israeli Labour Party

Yossi Beilin, Member of the Knesset, Meretz -Yachad, Israel

Mustafa Barghouti, Leader of the Palestinian National Initiative, PNI

 

 

Keynote speaker

H.E. Jalal Talabani, President of Iraq, Leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan

Mohamed Abdellah, Secretary for International Relations, National Democratic Party, NDP, Egypt

Jonas Gahr Store, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Norwegian Labour Party, DNA, and Co-Chair of the SI Middle East Committee

Piero Fassino, National Secretary of Democrats of the Left, DS, Italy, and Co-Chair of the SI Middle East Committee

Walid Jumblatt, Leader of the Progressive Socialist Party, PSP, Lebanon

Sergei Stanishev, Prime Minister of Bulgaria, leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, BSP , Co-Chair of SI Committee for South-Eastern Europe

Asif Ali Zardari, Co-Chair of the Pakistan People’s Party

Yiannikis Omirou, Chair of the Movement of Social Democrats EDEK, Cyprus

Mircea Geoana, Leader of the Romanian Social Democratic Party, Co-Chair of the SI Committee for South-Eastern Europe

 

Afternoon session

Boris Tadic, President of Serbia, leader of the Democratic Party, DS

Ranko Krivokapic, Speaker of the Parliament of Montenegro, leader of the Social Democratic Party

Mizuho Fukushima, leader of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, Japan

Denis MacShane, Member of Parliament, Labour Party, Great Britain

Alfonso Gómez Méndez, Secretary for International Affairs, Liberal Party, Colombia

Pascal Affi N’Guessan, Leader of the Ivorian Popular Front, FPI, Côte d’Ivoire

José Lello, President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, International Secretary, Socialist Party, Portugal

Sebahat Tuncel, Member of Parliament, International Secretary, Democratic Society Party, DTP, Turkey

Henry Ramos, President of Democratic Action, AD, Venezuela

Obed Bapela, National Executive Committee, African National Congress, ANC, South Africa

 

 

Wednesday 2 July

Panel - Struggling for democracy to eradicate national conflict

John Fru Ndi, leader of the Social Democratic Front, SDF, Cameroon

Tint Swe, National League for Democracy, Burma

Yassin Saeed Noaman, Secretary General of the Yemeni Socialist Party

Manuel Rosales, Leader of Un Nuevo Tiempo, Venezuela

 

Other contributions

Sher Bahadur Deuba, Former Prime Minister, Nepali Congress Party

 

Theme IV: Giving Migration a Human Face, to build a new migration agenda placing people first


Keynote speakers

Amalia Garcia, Governor of Zacatecas, Party of Democratic Revolution, PRD, Mexico and Chair of the SI Committee on Migrations

Nouzha Chekrouni, Socialist Union of Popular Forces, USFP, Morocco and Vice-Chair of the SI Committee on Migrations

Juan Fernando López Aguilar, former Minister of Justice, Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, PSOE, Spain

Sigfrido Reyes, Member of Parliament, FMLN, El Salvador

Tadeusz Iwinski, Democratic Left Alliance, SLD, Poland


Other contributions

Maria Vamvakinou, Federal Member for Calwell, Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Australian Parliament, Australian Labor Party, ALP