Monday, 30 January
OPENING AND MORNING SESSION
Peace, Democracy, Solidarity among peoples, across cultures
José Socrates, Prime Minister of Portugal, General Secretary of the Portuguese Socialist Party
Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, President of the Malian National Assembly, President of the Assembly for Mali, RPM
François Hollande, First Secretary of the Socialist Party of France
Mohamed Elyazghi, First Secretary of the Socialist Union of Popular Forces, USFP
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, President of the Party of European Socialists
Deniz Baykal, Chair of the Republican People’s Party, CHP, Turkey
Alfred Gusenbauer, Chair of the Social Democratic Party of Austria
Rolando Araya, National Liberation Party, Costa Rica
Jeltje van Nieuwenhoven, Dutch Labour Party
Keynote Speech by Juan Somavia, Director-General of the International Labour Organisation
Piero Fassino, National Secretary of the Democrats of the Left, DS, Italy
Election of the President of the Socialist International
Address by the President of the Socialist International
Monday, 30 January
AFTERNOON SESSION
Elio Di Rupo, President of the Socialist Party of Belgium, PS
Contributions on the main theme (continued)
Vassos Lyssarides, Honorary President of the Movement of Social Democrats EDEK, Cyprus
Trinidad Jiménez, International Secretary of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party
Antonio Hama Thai, Member of the Political Commission of Frelimo, Mozambique
Saúl Escobar, International Secretary of the Party of Democratic Revolution, Mexico
Hocine Aït-Ahmed, President of the Socialist Forces Front, FFS
Barbara Prammer, SIW Vice-President and Deputy President of the Austrian Parliament
Oleksandr Moroz, Chair of the Socialist Party of Ukraine
Mario Nalpatian, ARF Armenian Socialist Party
Monday, 30 January
AFTERNOON SESSION (continued)
FIRST PANEL
For a peaceful, stable and integrated Balkans: the Social Democratic approach
Keynote addresses
Sergei Stanishev, Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Chair of the Bulgarian Socialist Party
Mircea Geoana, President of the Social Democratic Party of Romania
Boris Tadic, President of Serbia, President of the Democratic Party, DP
Hashim Thaçi, Leader of the Democratic Party of Kosovo
Edi Rama, Chair of the Socialist Party of Albania
Karolina Ristova, SDSM International Secretary, FYR Macedonia
Mirjana Feric-Vac, SIW Vice-President, Social Democratic Party of Croatia
Rafael Estrella, Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, PSOE
Hannes Swoboda, Socialist Group in the European Parliament
Monday, 30 January
SECOND PANEL
Working for peace and democracy in the Middle East
Amir Peretz, Leader of the Israel Labour Party
Ilan Halevi, Fatah, Palestine
Roby Nathanson, Yachad, Israel
Raymond Johansen, Foreign Affairs State Secretary, Norwegian Labour Party
Massimo D’Alema, President of the Democrats of the Left of Italy
Doureid Yaghi, Vice-President of the Progressive Socialist Party of Lebanon
Yianakis Omirou, President of the Movement of Social Democrats EDEK, Cyprus
Khosrow Abdollahi, Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, PDKI
Raja Perves Ashraf, Deputy Parliamentary Leader in the National Assembly of Pakistan, Pakistan People’s Party
Tuesday, 31 January
THIRD PANEL
Overcoming poverty and inequality: global priorities for our movement today
Mahamadou Issoufou, President of the Party for Democracy and Socialism for Niger, PNDS
Carin Jämtin, Swedish Minister of Development Cooperation, Social Democratic Party, Sweden
Navinchandra Ramgoolam, Prime Minister of Mauritius, Leader of the Mauritius Labour Party
Ricardo Nuñez, President of the Socialist Party, Chile
Christoph Zöpel, Social Democratic Party, SPD, Germany
Ramón Alburquerque, President of the Dominican Revolutionary Party, PRD, Dominican Republic
Margarita Zapata, SIW Vice-President, FSLN, Nicaragua
Manuel Laguarda, International Secretary of the Socialist Party, Uruguay
Mhenni Hedi, General Secretary of the Constitutional Democratic Assembly, RCD, Tunisia
Zita Gurmai, SIW Vice-President, MSzP Hungary
Victor Bolívar, Democratic Action, AD, Venezuela
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Report on the Socialist International Women Bureau Meeting
Marcia Alexaki, SIW Vice-President, EDEK Cyprus
Presentation of the IUSY World Festival to be held in 2006
Herick Campos, IUSY Vice-President, PSOE Spain
