Program of Activities   

Wednesday 8 November 2006

Time

Activity

Meeting Room

08:00-18:00

Secretariat

Reda 4

08:00-18:00

Press Room

Reda 5

17:00-20:00

Registration Desk opens

Entrance Palais du Congrès

18:00-19:00

Introduction for first time delegates

Chair:
Rajiva Wijesinha

President, Liberal Party of Sri Lanka

Karam 1

FR-EN

18:00-20:00

Liberal International Coordination Meeting

Karam 5

19:00-21:00

Bureau Meeting

 

21:00-23:00

Bureau Dinner

 

20:00-22:00

International Officers Dinner [Invitation only]
Restaurant Al Baraka

 

Thursday 9 November 2006

Time

Activity

Meeting Room

07:00-08:00

Staff Meeting

Reda 4

08:00-18:00

Secretariat

Reda 4

08:00-18:00

Press Room

Reda 5

08:30-18:00

Registration Desk opens

Entrance Palais du Congrès

08:30-09:00

Collection of Executive Committee
Voting Cards

Ambassadeurs

 

09:00-10:00

Deadline Urgency Resolutions

Registration Desk

09:00-12:00

Executive Committee Meeting
[Closed Session]
Chair:
§         Lord John Alderdice
      President, Liberal International

Ambassadeurs

FR-EN-SP

09:00-12:00

Council of Asian Liberal Democrats Executive Committee Meeting

Reda 1

12:00-12:15

Coffee Break (individual arrangement)

 

12:00-13:00

Head of Delegation collection of
Voting Cards

Head of Delegation collection
of Ballot Papers

Registration Desk

12:15-13:00

Speeches:
§        
Aminata Tall
     Secretary General of Women
     Senegal
§        János Kóka
     Minister of Economy and Transport
    
Hungary

Ambassadeurs

FR-EN-SP

12:15-13:15

Human Rights Committee Meeting

Chair:
Henning Nielsen
Chair
, LI Human Rights Committee Denmark

Karam 1

FR-EN

13:15-14:30

Lunch (individual arrangement)

 

13:15-14:30

The Friedrich Naumann Stiftung’s Networking for Freedom Lunch
[Invitation only]

Welcome message
Dr.
Wolfgang Gerhardt, MP
Chairman, Friedrich Naumann Foundation
Germany

Hotel Ryad Mogodor

14:30-16:00

Theme report: Democracy and Development

Speakers:
§        
Martin Lee MP
      Founding Chairman,
     
Democratic Party of Hong Kong
§         Ibrahim Lipumba
      Chairman, Civic United Front
     
Tanzania
§        
Ricardo Lopez Murphy
      President, Recrear Party
      Argentina
§         Tayseer Abdel Jaber
      Chairman,
      Jordan Development Centre
      Jordan

Ambassadeurs

FR-EN-SP

14:30-16:00

The Friedrich Naumann Stiftung’s Networking for Freedom: Origins, strategies and political-programmatic development of the regional networks

Chair:
§         Saumura Tioulong MP
      Sam Rainsy Party
      Cambodia

Speakers:
§         Buranaj Smutharaks MP
      Democrat Party Thailand
§         Otto Guevara Guth
      President Movimiento Libertario
      Costa Rica
§         Jussa Ladhu
      Civic United Front
      Tanzania
§         Martin Chren
      Director F.A. Hayek Foundation
      Slovakia

Hotel Ryad Mogodor

16:00-16:15

Coffee Break

 

16:15-17:45

Panel: Freedom of Expression

Chair:
§         Henning Nielsen
      Chair, LI Human Rights Committee
      Denmark

Speakers:
§         Hugo Bütler
      Neue Züricher Zeitung
      Switzerland
§         Lars Erslev Andersen
      Professor,
      University of Southern Denmark
§         Graham Watson, MEP
      ALDE Leader
§         Hanan Yousef
      Professor,
      Arab and International Media,
      Ain El Shams University
      Egypt

Karam 1

FR-EN

 

16:15-17:45

Presentation of Report of LI Parliamentary Fact-finding mission to Western Sahara

Chair:
§         Hans van Baalen MP
      Deputy President, Liberal International,
     
Shadow Foreign Affairs Spokesman
      Netherlands

Speakers:
§         Gunnar Nordmark
      Former Member, Swedish Parliament
§         Francis Burstin
     
Advisor to the Chair,
     
Mouvement Réformateur
      Belgium

Karam 2

FR-EN

16:15-17:45

Panel: The Convention Against Torture – Universal Principle to Paper Inconvenience?

Chair:
§         Henedina Abab, MP
      Liberal Party of the Philippines  

Speakers:
§         Lorenzo R. Tañada, MP
      Liberal Party of the Philippines
§         Carla Ferstman
      Director, REDRESS, Torture NGO
§         Frank Ledwidge
      Former OSCE Torture Advisor

Karam 3

16:15-17:45

Workshop: How to get Closed States on the International Agenda

Chair:
§         Vesna Pusić
      Deputy Speaker of Parliament
      Croatia

Speakers:
§         Anatoly Lebedko
      Chairman, United Civic Party
      Belarus
§         Sein Win
      Prime Minister,
      National Coalition Government of the
      Union of Burma
§         Carlos Alberto Montaner
      Vice President, Liberal International
      Cuba

Karam 4

16:30-18:30

Friedrich Naumann Stiftung Networking for Freedom: Defining the Liberal regional agenda

Chair:
§        
Jorge Briz
      Former Foreign Minister and President
      Movimiento Reformador Party
      Guatemala

Speakers:
§         Saumura Tioulong, MP
      Sam Rainsy Party
      Cambodia
§         Ricardo Lopez Murphy
      President, Recrear Party
      Argentina
§         Gareth Morgan, MP
      Democratic Alliance
      South Africa

Hotel Ryad Mogodor

17:45-18:00

Coffee Break (individual arrangement)

 

18:00-19:00

Working Group on the Theme Resolution

Chair:
§         Robert Woodthorpe-Browne
      Liberal Democrats
      United Kingdom

Karam 1

18:00-19:00

Working Group Other Resolutions

Chair:
§         Wilfried Derksen
      Vice-President, ELDR

Karam 2

 

18:00-19:00

Opening Exhibit: “Cubans and Their Loved Ones: Political Prisoners and Their Families”

Palais du

Congrès

19:30

Departure Dinner                                   

 

20:00

Dinner at Fantasia
Spellbinding show in the tradition of a Thousand and One Nights

Fantasia Show with Dinner

Friday 10 November 2006

        Time      

Activity

Meeting Room

07:00-08:00

Staff Meeting

Reda 4

08:00-18:00

Secretariat

Reda 4

08:00-18:00

Press Room

Reda 5

08:30-18:00

Registration Desk

Entrance Palais du Congrès

08:30-09:00

VIP Host Room

Reda 1

09:00-11:00

Formal Opening of the Congress

Welcome:
§         Mohamed Abied
      Secretary General,
     
Union Constitutionnelle
      Morocco

Welcome:
§        
Lord John Alderdice
      President, Liberal International

Speakers:
§         Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu
     
Prime Minister of Romania
§         Deputy Prime Minister Mrs Etem
      Bulgaria
§         Graham Watson, MEP
      ALDE Leader
§         Martin Lee
      Founding chairman,
      Democratic Party of Hong Kong
§         President Chen Shui Bian
      Democratic Progressive Paty
      Taiwan
      Video Message

Salle des Ministres

FR-EN-SP

11:00-11:30

Coffee break

 

11:00-11:30

Press Conference

Ambassadeurs FR-EN-SP

11:30-13:00

Workshop: Nuclear Energy - Splitting Atoms or Splitting Liberals?

Chair:
§         Laurens-Jan Brinkhorst
      Former Deputy Prime Minister and
      former Minister for Economics
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