OPENING |
Opening address by the Secretary General of the Socialist International, Luis Ayala Welcoming remarks by the Director-General of the International Labour Organisation, Juan Somavía |
| Welcoming speech by Minister Moritz Leuenberger, Member of the Swiss Federal Council, Social Democratic Party of Switzerland |
Working for global peace and stability |
- The Israeli-Palestinian situation Keynote speech by the President of the Palestinian National Authority, H.E. Mahmoud Abbas Colette Avital, Member of the Knesset, Israel Labour Party Yossi Beilin, Leader of Meretz/Yachad Party, Israel Massimo D’Alema, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Democrats of the Left, DS, Italy Jonas Gahr Store, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Co-Chair of the Socialist International Middle East Committee, Norwegian Labour Party, DNA Pia Locatelli, President of Socialist International Women |
- The future for Lebanon Keynote speech by the leader of the Progressive Socialist Party, PSP, Walid Jumblatt |
- Iraq: which way forward? Keynote speech by the President of the Republic of Iraq, H.E. Jalal Talabani Keynote speech by the President of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Massoud Barzani
Benazir Bhutto, Leader of the Pakistan People's Party, PPP Deniz Baykal, Leader of the Republican People's Party, CHP of Turkey |
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Launch of the Socialist International Commission for a Sustainable World Society Keynote address by Ricardo Lagos, Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General on Climate Change, former President of Chile Keynote address by Goran Persson, former Prime Minister of Sweden
Guest speaker: Kemal Dervis, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, UNDP
Juan Fernando Lopes Aguilar, former Minister of Justice, Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, PSOE Beatriz Paredes, President of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI, Mexico Mohamed El Yazghi, First Secretary of the Socialist Union of Popular Forces, USFP, Morocco, Minister of the Environment Eero Heinäluoma, Chair of the Finnish Social Democratic Party, SDP Sergei Mironov, Chairman of the Council of Federation, Chairman of the Justice Party, Russia Rolando Araya, Chair of the SI Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean, National Liberation Party, PLN, Costa Rica Paulo Pisco, International Department, Socialist Party, PS, Portugal Oleksandr Moroz, Chair of the Socialist Party, PS, Ukraine
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| - Ensuring stability in the Western Balkans |
Ranko Krivokapic, President of the Parliament of the Republic of Montenegro, Socialist Democratic Party, SDP Milorad Dodik, President of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, SNSD, Bosnia and Herzegovina Jan Marinus Wiersma, Vice-President of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament Milos Jevtic, Member of Parliament, Democratic Party, DS, Serbia Skender Gjinushi, Chair of the Social Democratic Party, PSD, Albania Arta Dade, International Secretary, Socialist Party of Albania, SPA Igor Ivanovski, Vice-President of the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia, SDSM
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| - Making peace work in Côte d’Ivoire |
Keynote address by Pascal Affi N’Guessan, President of the Ivorian Popular Front Ousmane Tanor Dieng, First Secretary of the Socialist Party of Senegal, Chair of the Socialist International Africa Committee Toumani Djimé Diallo, Assembly for Mali, RPM |
Special address by Gediminas Kirkilas, Prime Minister of Lithuania, Lithuanian Social Democratic Party Mircea Geoana, President of the Social Democratic Party, PSD, Romania, Co-Chair of the SI Committee for South-Eastern Europe
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- The search for solutions in the Caucasus Armen Rustamzan, Chair of Armenian Socialist Party’s Supreme Council, Chair of the Foreign Relations Commission on the National Assembly Araz Alizadeh, Co-Chair of the Social Democratic Party of Azerbaijan Tadeusz Iwinski, Democratic Left Alliance, SLD, Poland Yury Buzdugan, Leader of the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine, SDPU
Yiannikis Omirou, President of the Movement of Social Democrats EDEK, Cyprus
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- Ending violence in Colombia Horacio Serpa, Liberal Party Colombia
Miguel Vargas Maldonado, Presidential Candidate, Dominican Revolutionary Party, PRD
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- Consolidating peace in Nepal Sher Bahadur Deuba, President of Nepali Congress (Democratic), former Prime Minister Sushil Koirala, Vice-President of Nepali Congress and Member of Interim Legislative Parliament of Nepal |
