THE PRESIDENT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

22 September 2020

Excellency,

Sequel to the letter dated 26 August, I am pleased to share the list of speakers for the high-level meeting on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women to be held on Thursday, 1 October 2020, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. This reflects the latest status of registration and level of participating Member States for the high-level meeting.

In accordance with decision 74/562, the President of the General Assembly is to finalize the other organizational arrangements for the high-level meeting. Introductory remarks by the representative who is physically present will be optional. Given the large number of speakers inscribed, it will be presumed that delegations will not be introducing their respective pre-recorded statements; rather the presiding officer will introduce the pre-recorded statements. Delegations are urged to keep to stipulated time limits (three minutes for individual statements and five minutes for group statements) to provide maximum opportunity to exhaust the speakers’ list.

Any delegation that intends to introduce its pre-recorded statement should communicate this in writing to Mr. Martin Vrastiak ([email protected]) by 25 September 2020.

In order to limit the footprint and number of people in the Headquarters complex, physical access and presence in the General Assembly Hall will be limited to one representative per Member State and observer State and for the . The final risk assessment and mitigation measures will be communicated shortly.

Please accept, , the assurances of my highest consideration.

Volkan BOZKIR

All Permanent Representatives and Permanent Observers to the United Nations New York GENERAL ASSEMBLY HIGH-LEVEL MEETING ON THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOURTH WORLD CONFERENCE ON WOMEN

Thursday, 1 October 2020

General Assembly Hall

Provisional list of Speakers [Updated on 22 September at 14:30]

1. EUROPEAN UNION Her Excellency Ursula von der Leyen President of the European Commission 2. THE FEDERAL Her Excellency Sahle-Work Zewde DEMOCRATIC President OF ETHIOPIA 3. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC His Excellency Emmanuel Macron President 4. THE UNITED MEXICAN His Excellency Andrés Manuel López Obrador STATES President 5. THE SWISS Her Excellency Simonetta Sommaruga CONFEDERATION President 6. THE REPUBLIC OF His Excellency MOZAMBIQUE President 7. THE REPUBLIC OF His Excellency Edgar Chagwa Lungu ZAMBIA President 8. THE REPUBLIC OF His Excellency Sauli Niinistö FINLAND President 9. THE FEDERAL Her Excellency Bidhya Devi Bhandari DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC President OF NEPAL 10. THE REPUBLIC OF His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo GHANA President 11. THE REPUBLIC OF His Excellency Mokgweetsi Eric Keabetswe Masisi BOTSWANA President 12. THE FEDERAL His Excellency REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA President 13. THE REPUBLIC OF His Excellency Juan Orlando Hernández Alvarado HONDURAS President 14. PLURINATIONAL STATE Her Excellency Jeanine Añez Chávez OF BOLIVIA President 15. THE REPUBLIC OF His Excellency Borut Pahor SLOVENIA President 16. THE REPUBLIC OF His Excellency Stevo Pendarovski NORTH MACEDONIA President 17. THE ARAB REPUBLIC OF His Excellency Abdel Fattah El-Sisi President 18. THE REPUBLIC OF His Excellency Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera MALAWI President 19. Her Excellency Salome Zourabichvili President 20. THE REPUBLIC OF His Excellency Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa ZIMBABWE President 21. THE REPUBLIC OF His Excellency KIRIBATI President 22. THE REPUBLIC OF His Excellency President 23. THE TOGOLESE His Excellency Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé REPUBLIC President 24. THE REPUBLIC OF His Excellency Cyril Matamela Ramaphosa SOUTH AFRICA President 25. THE REPUBLIC OF Her Excellency Epsy Campbell Barr First Vice President 26. THE REPUBLIC OF His Excellency George Manneh Weah LIBERIA President 27. THE REPUBLIC OF His Excellency SIERRA LEONE President 28. THE REPUBLIC OF His Excellency Yoweri Kaguta Museveni President 29. THE REPUBLIC OF His Excellency João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço ANGOLA President 30. THE REPUBLIC OF THE His Excellency David Kabua MARSHALL ISLANDS President 31. THE REPUBLIC OF Her Excellency Marta Lucia Ramirez COLOMBIA Vice President 32. THE UNION OF THE His Excellency Azali Assoumani President 33. THE COMMONWEALTH His Excellency Charles Angelo Savarin OF DOMINICA President 34. THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC His Excellency Mohammad Ashraf Ghani OF AFGHANISTAN President 35. THE REPUBLIC OF THE His Excellency Danny Faure SEYCHELLES 36. THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC Her Excellency Masoumeh Ebtekar OF IRAN Vice President for Women and Family Affairs 37. THE EASTERN Her Excellency Beatriz Argimón REPUBLIC OF URUGUAY Vice President 38. THE REPUBLIC OF EL His Excellency Félix Augusto Antonio Ulloa Garay SALVADOR Vice President 39. TUVALU (ON BEHALF OF His Excellency THE PACIFIC ISLANDS Prime Minister FORUM) 40. THE KINGDOM OF Her Excellency NORWAY Prime Minister 41. THE KINGDOM OF His Excellency Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón Prime Minister 42. THE REPUBLIC OF FIJI His Excellency Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama Prime Minister of Fiji and Minister of iTaukei, Sugar Industry and Foreign Affairs 43. THE UNITED KINGDOM His Excellency OF GREAT BRITAIN AND Prime Minister NORTHERN IRELAND 44. THE PEOPLE'S Her Excellency REPUBLIC OF Prime Minister BANGLADESH 45. SAINT VINCENT AND His Excellency THE GRENADINES Prime Minister 46. THE KINGDOM OF His Excellency Stefan Löfven Prime Minister 47. His Excellency James Marape Prime Minister 48. THE KINGDOM OF Her Excellency DENMARK Prime Minister 49. THE COMMONWEALTH His Excellency Dr. Hubert Alexander Minnis OF THE BAHAMAS Prime Minister 50. THE KINGDOM OF His Excellency Pohiva Tu'i'onetoa TONGA Prime Minister 51. THE FEDERAL Her Excellency Angela Merkel REPUBLIC OF GERMANY Chancellor 52. THE REPUBLIC OF Her Excellency Katrin Jakobsdottir ICELAND Prime Minister 53. KINGDOM OF ESWATINI His Excellency Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini Prime Minister 54. THE KINGDOM OF Her Excellency Sophie Wilmès BELGIUM Prime Minister 55. THE REPUBLIC OF His Excellency Juri Ratas ESTONIA Prime Minister 56. THE REPUBLIC OF ITALY His Excellency Giuseppe Conte Prime Minister 57. CANADA His Excellency Prime Minister 58. KAZAKHSTAN Her Excellency Lazzat Ramazanova Deputy Prime Minister and Chair of the National Commission on the Rights of Women 59. BULGARIA Her Excellency Ekaterina Zaharieva Deputy Prime Minister for Judicial Reform and Minister for Foreign Affairs 60. UKRAINE Her Excellency Olha Stefanishyna Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro- Atlantic Integration 61. ARMENIA His Excellency Tigran Avinyan Deputy Prime Minister and Chair of the Council on Women's Affairs

62. SERBIA Her Excellency Zorana Mihajlovic Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure and President of the Coordination Body for Gender Equality 63. THAILAND His Excellency Pramudwinai Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs 64. VIET NAM Her Excellency Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan Chairwoman of the of Vietnam 65. UZBEKISTAN Her Excellency Tanzila Narbaeva Chairperson of the of (Parliament) 66. NETHERLANDS Her Excellency Sigrid Kaag Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation 67. Her Excellency Mariana Vieira da Silva Minister of State for the Presidency 68. AUSTRALIA Her Excellency Marise Payne Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Women 69. PERU Her Excellency Rosario Sasieta Morales Minister of Women and Vulnerable Populations 70. ECUADOR His Excellency Luis Gallegos Minister of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility 71. INDIA Her Excellency Smriti Irani Minister for Women and Child Development 72. Her Excellency Zehra Zümrüt Selçuk Minister of Family, Labour and Social Services

73. AUSTRIA Her Excellency Susanne Raab Federal Minister for Women and Integration at the Federal Chancellery 74. Her Excellency Imène Houimel Minister of Women, Family, Childhood and Seniors 75. CUBA Her Excellency Teresa Amarelle Boué Member of the Council of State 76. CHILE Her Excellency Mónica Zalaquett Minister for Women and Gender Equality

77. CZECH REPUBLIC Her Excellency Jana Maláčová Minister of Labour and Social Affairs 78. SRI LANKA His Excellency Dinesh Gunawardena Minister for Foreign Affairs 79. PAKISTAN His Excellency Mahmood Qureshi Minister for Foreign Affairs 80. MYANMAR His Excellency Win Myat Aye Union Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement 81. His Excellency Fuad Hussein Minister for Foreign Affairs 82. His Excellency Sabri Boukadoum Minister for Foreign Affairs 83. NAMIBIA Her Excellency Doreen Sioka Minister of Gender Equality, Poverty Eradication and Social Welfare 84. LUXEMBOURG His Excellency Minister for Foreign Affairs 85. BHUTAN His Excellency Lyonpo Dr. Tandi Dorji Minister for Foreign Affairs 86. BARBADOS Her Excellency Cynthia Forde Minister of People Empowerment and Elder Affairs 87. CABO VERDE Her Excellency Maritza Rosabal Pena Minister of Education, Family and Social Inclusion 88. UNITED ARAB Her Excellency Hessa bint Essa Buhumaid Minister of Community Development 89. Her Excellency Damares Alves Minister of Women, Family and Human Rights 90. His Excellency Nasser Bourita Minister for Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccan Expatriates 91. MONGOLIA Her Excellency Ariunzaya Ayush Minister for Labor and Social Protection 92. CONGO Her Excellency Jacqueline Lydia Mikolo Minister of Health, Population and the Promotion of Women and the Integration of Women in Development 93. GUYANA Her Excellency Dr. Vindhya Persaud Minister of Human Services and Social Security 94. Her Excellency Meirav Cohen Minister for Social Equality 95. VENEZUELA Her Excellency Carolys Helena Pérez González (BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC Minister of the People's Power for Women and OF) Gender Equality 96. INDONESIA Her Excellency Gusti Ayu Bintang Darmawati Minister of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection 97. IRELAND His Excellency Minister for Foreign Affairs 98. CÔTE D'IVOIRE Her Excellency Ly Ramata Bakayoko Minister of Women, Families, and Children 99. LIECHTENSTEIN Her Excellency Katrin Eggenberger Minister for Foreign Affairs, Justice and Culture 100. His Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud Minister for Foreign Affairs 101. SENEGAL His Excellency Amadou Ba Minister of Foreign Affairs and Senegalese Abroad 102. GAMBIA Her Excellency Fatou Kinteh Minister of Women, Children, and Social Welfare 103. Her Excellency Naha Haroun Cheikh Sidiya Minister of Social Affairs, Children and Family 104. MALAYSIA Her Excellency Datuk Seri Rina binti Mohd Harun Minister of Women, Family and Community Development 105. CHAD Her Excellency Amina Priscille Longoh Minister of Women and Child Protection 106. GUINEA His Excellency Mamadi Touré Minister for Foreign Affairs and Guineans Living Abroad 107. Her Excellency Mayra Jiménez Minister of Women 108. Her Excellency Lina El Sheikh Mahjoub Minister of Labour and Social Development 109. CROATIA His Excellency Gordan Grlić Radman Minister of Foreign and European Affairs 110. ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA His Excellency Everly Paul Chet Greene Minister for Foreign Affairs, Immigration and Trade 111. PANAMA Her Excellency María Inés Castillo López Minister of Social Development 112. MAURITIUS Her Excellency Kalpana Devi Koonjoo-Shah Minister of Gender Equality and Family Welfare 113. TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO Her Excellency Ayanna Webster-Roy Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister 114. SURINAME His Excellency Bronto Somohardjo Minister of Internal Affairs 115. MALDIVES Her Excellency Aishath Mohamed Didi Minister of Gender, Family and Social Services 116. HUNGARY Her Excellency Katalin Novák Minister for Family and Youth Affairs 117. REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA His Excellency Oleg Țulea Minister for Foreign Affairs and European Integration 118. His Excellency Minister for Foreign Affairs 119. PHILIPPINES His Excellency Teodoro Locsin Secretary for Foreign Affairs 120. GUATEMALA His Excellency Pedro Brolo Vila Minister for Foreign Affairs 121. PARAGUAY Her Excellency Nilda Romero Santacruz Minister of Women 122. ANDORRA His Excellency Víctor Filloy Franco Minister of Social Affairs, Housing and Youth 123. REPUBLIC OF KOREA Her Excellency Jung Ok Lee Minister of Gender Equality and Family 124. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC Her Excellency Béatrice Lomeya Atilite OF THE CONGO Minister of State, Minister of Gender, Family and Children 125. MADAGASCAR Her Excellency Michelle Bavy Angelica Minister of Population, Social Protection and Promotion of Women 126. His Excellency Minister for Foreign and European Affairs 127. Her Excellency Marie Ghislaine Mompremier Minister of Status and Women's Rights 128. His Excellency Sheikh Ahmad Nasser Al- Mohammed Al-Sabah Minister for Foreign Affairs 129. ALBANIA Her Excellency Ogerta Manastirliu Minister of Health and Social Protection 130. RWANDA Her Excellency Jeannette Bayisenge Minister of Gender and Family Promotion 131. His Excellency Yousuf Mohamed Al Othman Fakhroo Minister of Administrative Development, Labour and Social Affairs 132. BURKINA FASO Her Excellency Hélène Marie Laurence Ilboudo Marshall Minister of Woman, National Solidarity, Family and Humanitarian Action 133. LATVIA Her Excellency Ramona Petravica Minister for Welfare 134. ROMANIA His Excellency Bogdan Lucian Aurescu Minister for Foreign Affairs 135. Her Excellency Kantha Phavi Ing Minister of Women's Affairs 136. His Excellency Nikolaos Dendias Minister for Foreign Affairs 137. SOLOMON ISLANDS His Excellency Jeremiah Manele Minister for Foreign Affairs and External Trade 138. SINGAPORE Her Excellency Sun Xueling Minister of State for Social and Family Development 139. Her Excellency Laila Al-Najjar Minister of Social Development 140. JAPAN Her Excellency Seiko Hashimoto Minister in charge of Women's Empowerment, Minister of State for Gender Equality 141. LITHUANIA His Excellency Linas Kukuraitis Minister of Social Security and Labour 142. SAMOA His Excellency Tuitama Dr. Leao Talalelelei Tuitama Minister for Women, Community and Social Development 143. SAINT LUCIA Her Excellency Sarah Flood Beaubrun Minister with responsibility for External Affairs 144. ARGENTINA Her Excellency Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta Minister of Women, Genders and Diversity 145. BOSNIA AND His Excellency Miloš Lučić HERZEGOVINA Minister for Human Rights and Refugees 146. Her Excellency Moumina Houmed Hassan Minister for Women and the Family 147. His Excellency Mousa Al Maaitah Minister of Political and Parliamentary Affairs and Chair of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Women's Empowerment 148. NIGER Her Excellency Zeinabou Tari Bako El Back Minister of Women Advancement and Child Protection 149. AZERBAIJAN Her Excellency Bahar Muradova Chairperson, State Committee for Family, Women and Children Affairs 150. Her Excellency Hala Alansari Secretary-General of the Supreme Council for Women 151. RUSSIAN Her Excellency Olga Y. Batalina Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Protection 152. POLAND Her Excellency Anna Schmidt-Rodziewicz State Secretary in the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy and Government Plenipotentiary for Equal Treatment 153. TIMOR -LESTE Her Excellency Maria Jose da Fonseca Monteiro de Secretary of State for Equality and Inclusion 154. SLOVAKIA Her Excellency Ingrid Brocková State Secretary of the Ministry for Foreign and European Affairs 155. LAO PEOPLE'S Her Excellency Bouachanh Syhanath DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC Vice-Minister and Vice-President of Lao Women's Union 156. KYRGYZSTAN Her Excellency Janyl Alybaeva Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Development 157. CHAIR OF THE AFRICAN STATES FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER 2020 158. TAJIKISTAN 159. NEW ZEALAND 160. NICARAGUA 161. 162. ERITREA 163. TURKMENISTAN 164. MONACO 165. 166. 167. SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC 168. 169. MONTENEGRO 170. UNITED REPUBLIC OF

Observer States

171. Her Excellency Amal Hamad Minister of Women's Affairs 172. Her Excellency Francesca Di Giovanni Under-Secretary for the Multilateral Sector