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Agenda

Friday, 10 February

1.30 pm: Lunch - participants meet
3.00 pm: Welcoming Speech, Presentation and Introduction to the Meeting
Federico Mayor and Josep Xercavins
4.00 pm: The Current State of Affairs of the United Nations Subsequent to its Latest Summits
  • Millennium Development Goals, Financing for Development, ECOSOC, etc.
    John Foster*

  • Security Council, Human Rights Council, Peacebuilding Commission, etc.
    Bill Pace*

  • Gender Perspective
    June Zeitlin*

  • World Summit on the Information Society
    Lluís Miret

  • Joint Debate and Analysis: Latest Attempt at UN Reform and Current State of the United Nations
5.00 pm: Coffee Break
5.30 pm: Continuation of debate on the previous item
7.30 pm: Session closes
9.00 pm: Supper hosted by the Catalan Agency for Development Cooperation (ACCD)

Saturday, 11 February

9.30 am: The Current State of Affairs of the Bretton Woods Institutions
Aldo Caliari*

The Current State of Affairs of the WTO
Marta Garrich

Debate

11.30 am: Coffee Break
12.00 pm: The State of Today's Major Geopolitical Blocs (USA; EU; G8; China; MERCOSUR; G77; G20-WTO; etc.)
Roberto Savio* and Manuel Manonelles

Debate

2.00 pm: Lunch
3.00 pm: The Current State of Affairs of Organised Civil Society, Trade Unions, Social Movements and Other Non-Governmental Agents (including the processes: World Social Forum - Nairobi 2007, GCAP, etc.)
Cyril Ritchie*, Eduardo Estevez*, EURALAT* and Fatma Alloo*

Debate

5.00 pm: Coffee Break
5.30 pm: Analysis of the Progress of the Ubuntu Forum and the World Campaign for In-Depth Reform of the System of International Institutions in the 2002-2005 period; Proposals for Action by the Ubuntu Forum in the 2006-2009 period; and, specifically, presentation of proposed items on the agenda for the Sunday morning session
Josep Xercavins
7.30 pm: Session closes
9.00 pm: Supper hosted by Barcelona Solidària, Barcelona City Council

Sunday, 12 Februaryo

9.30 am: Proposals for the conception and launch of the second stage - 2006/2009 - of the World Campaign as a framework campaign, as a campaign in and of itself and in relation to other campaigns and movements
Ad Hoc Secretariat
The proposals document will have been submitted by Monday, 6 February.

Debate

11.30 am: Coffee Break
12.00 pm: Proposal to hold an international conference in Geneva by the summer of 2006 on the following subject: How can we build a coalition and mobilise socio-political forces capable of generating the reform of international institutions, in order to change world policies and move towards global democratic governance?
Ad Hoc Secretariat
The proposals document will have been submitted by Monday, 6 February.

Debate

2.30 pm: Lunch and closure

* Todas estas personas son invitadas a abrir el análisis/debate respectivos con una intervención de un máximo de 10 min. en el caso de que sean dos y de 5min en el caso de que sean más de dos; en general, naturalmente, todo el mundo esta invitado a preparar y enviar intervenciones relativas a los distintos puntos y/o temas del orden del día.

 
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