Economic and Social Council Distr.: General 27 July 2020

United Nations ECE/HBP/2020/Inf. 2

Original: English

Economic Commission for Europe Committee on Urban Development, Housing and Land Management

Eighty first session Geneva, 6-8 October 2020 Item 2 of the provisional agenda Forum of Mayors Item 3 of the provisional agenda Report on the outcomes of the Forum of Mayors, the roundtable “In Focus: SDG 11” and related recommendations

Programme of the Forum of Mayors 2020

Note by the Bureau of the Committee

Summary

This Note includes the draft programme of the Forum of Mayors (6 October 2020). The Committee is invited to take note of the information provided.

PROGRAMME 6 October 2020, Room XVII, Palais des Nations (Geneva) and UN Web TV

Room XVII 09:00 – 09:45

Registration

Room XVII 09:45 – 10:00

Musical performance Lakiko (Lana Kostic) – “Breathe” and “Let Us Dream”

Room XVII 10:00 – 10:10

Opening of the meeting and adoption of the agenda

Doris Andoni, Head, Housing, Ministry of Finance and Economy, Albania Chair of the 81st Session of the Committee on Urban Development, Housing and Land Management

Room XVII 10:10 – 10:45

Opening of the Forum of Mayors

Sami Kanaan, Mayor of Geneva, Switzerland Co-Chair of the Forum of Mayors

Olga Algayerova, Under-Secretary-General and UNECE Executive Secretary

Tatiana Valovaya, Under-Secretary-General and Director-General of the United Nations at Geneva

Giuseppe Sala, Mayor of Milan, Italy Keynote address: “A Mayor’s Agenda for a Green and Just Recovery”

Norman Foster, Architect Special address: “A message to Mayors”

Room XVII 10:45 – 11:00

Abdulah Skaka, Mayor of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Remigijus Šimašius, Mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania Gergely Karácsony, Mayor of Budapest, Hungary Jānis Vilnītis, Chairman of the Liepāja City Council, Latvia Viktoria Mozgacheva, Deputy Mayor of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Konstantin Georgieski, Mayor of Ohrid, Republic North Macedonia

Room XVII 11:00 – 11:30

Conxita Marsol Riart, Mayor of Andorra la Vella, Andorra Peter Danielsson, Mayor of Helsingborg, Sweden Hazel Chu, Lord Mayor of Dublin, Ireland Erion Veliaj, Mayor of Tirana, Albania Kostas Bakoyannis, Mayor of Athens, Greece

Room XVII 11:30 – 12:00 Laia Bonet, Deputy Mayor of Barcelona, Spain Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem, Israel Vitali Klitschko, Mayor of Kyiv, Ukraine

Interventions from the floor

Ariana Park 12:00 – 14:00 Ariana Park, Palais des Nations

Lunch break // Soccer Match “United for our Goals”

Room XVII 14:00 – 14:30

Josiane Lei, Mayor of Evian, France Co-Chair of the Forum of Mayors

Zdeněk Hřib, Mayor of Prague, Czech Republic Nina Abrahamczik, Vienna City Council, Austria Martin Horn, Mayor of Freiburg, Germany Morten Wolden, Chief Executive of Trondheim, Norway Marcin Krupa, Mayor of Katowice, Poland Kishwar Shamirov, Mayor of Khorog, Tajikistan

Room XVII 14:30 – 15:00

Carlos Carreiras, Mayor of Cascais, Portugal Tomaso Rossini, Captain of the Castle, San Marino Zoran Radojičić, Mayor of Belgrade, Serbia Lucia Štasselová, Deputy Mayor of Bratislava, Slovakia Gregor Macedoni, Mayor of Novo mesto, Slovenia Alec von Graffenried, Mayor of Berne, Switzerland Maia Bitadze, Deputy Mayor of Tbilisi, Georgia

Room XVII 15:00 – 15:45

Dagur B. Eggertsson, Mayor of Reykjavík, Iceland Susan Aitken, Leader of Glasgow City Council, United Kingdom Ilsur Metshin, Mayor of Kazan, Russian Federation Ion Ceban, Mayor of Chișinău, Moldova Andres Jaadla, Vice Mayor of Rakvere, Estonia Pierre Hurmic, Mayor of Bordeaux, France Bill Peduto, Mayor of Pittsburgh, USA Lisa Helps, Mayor of Victoria, Canada

Interventions from the floor

Room XVII 15:45 – 16:00

Closing ceremony Endorsement of the Geneva Declaration of Mayors (by acclamation)

Serpent Bar 16:00 – 17:00

Reception hosted by the Permanent Mission of Switzerland

Online Participation