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 Musician: 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

Sami Kanaan, 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 Gergely Karácsony, Mayor of , Jānis Vilnītis, Chairman of the Liepāja City Council, Latvia

Room XVII 11:00 – 11:30

Konstantin Georgieski, Mayor of Ohrid, Republic North Macedonia Peter Danielsson, Mayor of Helsingborg, Conxita Marsol Riart, Mayor of Andorra la Vella, Andorra Erion Veliaj, Mayor of Tirana, Albania Laia Bonet, Deputy Mayor of Barcelona, Spain

Room XVII 11:30 – 12:00

Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem, Israel Tassos Kriekoukis, Diplomatic Advisor of the Mayor of Athens, Greece

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

Hazel Chu, Lord Mayor of Dublin, Ireland Zdeněk Hřib, Mayor of Prague, Nina Abrahamczik, Vienna City Council, Austria Martin Horn, Mayor of Freiburg, Morten Wolden, Chief Executive of Trondheim, Norway Kishwar Shamirov, Mayor of Khorog, Tajikistan Tomaso Rossini, Captain of the Castle, San Marino

Room XVII 14:30 – 15:00

Zoran Radojičić, Mayor of Belgrade, Serbia Joana Balsemão, Deputy Mayor of Cascais, Portugal Lucia Štasselová, Deputy Mayor of Bratislava, Slovakia Gregor Macedoni, Mayor of Novo mesto, Slovenia Alec von Graffenried, Mayor of Berne, Switzerland Dagur B. Eggertsson, Mayor of Reykjavík, Iceland Susan Aitken, Leader of Glasgow City Council,

Room XVII 15:00 – 15:45

Ilsur Metshin, Mayor of Kazan, Russian Federation Ion Ceban, Mayor of Chișinău, Maia Bitadze, Deputy Mayor of Tbilisi, Georgia Pierre Hurmic, Mayor of Bordeaux, France Bill Peduto, Mayor of Pittsburgh, USA Lisa Helps, Mayor of Victoria, Serhii Sukhomlyn, Mayor of Zhytomyr, Ukraine Niyazi Bayramov, Mayor of Ganja, Azerbaijan Andres Jaadla, Vice Mayor of Rakvere,

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 Musician: Klas Moldéus

Online Participation

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