INTRODUCTORY SPEAKERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
OPENING
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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
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Welcoming speech by Minister Moritz Leuenberger, Member of the Swiss Federal Council, Social Democratic Party of Switzerland |
CENTRAL THEME
Working for global peace and stability
in a world of conflicts without borders
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- 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
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- The future for Lebanon
Keynote speech by the leader of the Progressive Socialist Party, PSP, Walid Jumblatt
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- 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
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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
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