J O U R N A L of the

UNITED NATIONS International Conference on Financing for Development

Monterrey, N.L., Mexico (18-22 March 2002)

FRIDAY, 22 MARCH 2002 No. 6

PROGRAMME OF MEETINGS AND AGENDA

SCHEDULED MEETINGS

Friday, 22 March 2002

GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT

9 a.m.- 1 p.m. 5th PLENARY MEETING Conference Room 1

Summit segment [10]

(a) General exchange of views

1. His Excellency Mr. Andranik Margaryan, Prime of the Republic of

2. His Excellency Mr. Jacques Chirac, President of the French Republic

3. His Excellency Mr. Ricardo Lagos, President of the Republic of Chile

4. His Excellency Mr. George W. Bush, President of the of America

5. His Excellency Mr. Alfonso Portillo Cabrera, President of the Republic of Guatemala

6. His Excellency Mr. Romano Prodi, President of the European Commission

7. His Excellency Mr. Vasile Tarlev, Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova

8. His Excellency The Right Honourable Hubert Ingraham, Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of the Ba- hamas

9. His Excellency Mr. Jin Nyum, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and Economy of the Re- public of Korea

10. His Excellency Mr. Marek Belka, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of

11. His Excellency Mr. Jan Kavan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Czech Re- public

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12. His Excellency Mr. Ivan Míkloš, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs of Slovakia

13. His Excellency Mr. José Antonio Moreno Ruffinelli, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Paraguay

14. His Excellency The Honourable Anil Kumarsingh Gayan, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Co- operation of Mauritius

15. His Excellency The Honourable Samuel Insanally, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Guyana

16. His Excellency Dr. Mohamed Mahdi Salih, Minister of Trade of Iraq

17. Her Excellency Mrs. Eveline Herfkens, Minister for Development Cooperation of the

18. His Excellency Mr. Ch. Ulaan, Minister of Finance and Economics of Mongolia

19. His Excellency Mr. Soukanh Mahalath, Minister of Finance of the Lao People's Democratic Republic

20. Her Excellency Mrs. Kristiina Ojuland, Minister for Foreign Affairs of

21. His Excellency Mr. Kadi Sesay, Minister of Development and Economic Planning of Sierra Leone

22. His Excellency Mr. Aboudramane Sangaré, Minister of State and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Côte d'Ivoire

23. His Excellency Mr. Tahmaseb Mazaheri, Minister for Economic Affairs and Finance of the Islamic Repub- lic of Iran

24. His Excellency The Honourable K.D. Knight, M.P., Minister for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Ja- maica

25. His Excellency The Honourable Matt Robson, Minister for Disarmament and Arms Control and Associate Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for Official Development Assistance of New Zealand

26. His Excellency The Honourable Ram Sharan Mahat, Minister of Finance of Nepal

27. His Excellency Mr. The Honourable Datuk Azmi Khalid, Minister of Rural Development of Malaysia

28. His Excellency Mr. Kemal Dervis, Minister of State of

29. Her Excellency Mrs. Chris Gallus, Minister for Development Cooperation of

30. His Excellency Mr. Luis Marques Amado, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Portu- gal

31. Her Excellency Ms. Mulu Ketsela, Minister of State, Ministry of Finance and Economic Development of Ethiopia

32. His Excellency Mr. David Aptsiauri, Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs of Georgia

33. His Excellency Mr. Sergei Kolotukhin, Vice-Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation

34. His Excellency Mr. Alfredo Mantica, Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs of

35. His Excellency Mr. Amraiya Naidu, Chairman of the Delegation of Fiji

36. Her Excellency Mrs. Sheelagh de Osuna, Chairperson of the Delegation of Trinidad and Tobago

37. His Excellency Mr. Guy Razafinony, Chairman of the Delegation of Madagascar

38. His Excellency Mr. Tuiloma Neroni Slade, Chairman of the Delegation of Samoa

39. His Excellency Mr. Barrie Ireton, Chairman of the Delegation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

2. Adoption of the Monterrey Consensus [11] (A/CONF.198/3) No. 6 3

2 p.m.- 8 p.m. 6th PLENARY MEETING Conference Room 1

1. Summit segment [10]

(a) General exchange of views

1. His Excellency Mr. Jean Bertrand Aristide, President of the Republic of Haiti

2. His Excellency Mr. Kessai Note, President of the Republic of the Marshall Islands

3. His Excellency Mr. Hama Amadou, Prime Minister of the Republic of the Niger

4. His Excellency The Honourable John Briceño, Deputy Prime Minister of Belize

5. His Excellency Mr. Abdurrahman Mohamed Shalghem, Secretary of the General People's Committee for Foreign Liaison and International Cooperation of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

6. His Excellency Mr. Ahmed Mohamed Sofan, Minister of Planning and Development of Yemen

7. His Excellency The Honourable Friday Jumbe, Minister of Finance and Economic Planning of Malawi

8. His Excellency The Honourable Christopher Obure, M.P., Minister of Finance of Kenya

9. His Excellency Mr. Karameldin Abdelmawla Salih, Minister of International Cooperation of the Sudan

10. His Excellency Mr. Woldal Futur, Minister of Planning and Development of Eritrea

11. Her Excellency Ms. Fayza Aboulnaga, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of Egypt

12. His Excellency Mr. Cham Prasidh, Minister of Commerce of Cambodia

13. His Excellency Mr. Tran Xuan Gia, Minister of Planning and of Viet Nam

14. His Excellency Mr. Arun Shourie, Minister for Privatization of India

15. His Excellency Mr. Bruno Amoussou, Senior Minister in charge of the Coordination of Government Ac- tion, Planning and Development, Personal Representative of the Head of State of Benin (on behalf of the Least Developed Countries)

16. His Excellency Mr. Khin Maung Thein, Minister for Finance and Revenue of Myanmar

17. His Excellency Mr. Geir Haarde, Minister of Finance of

18. His Excellency The Honourable Mohamed Jaleel, Minister of Finance and Treasury of

19. His Excellency Mr. Anton Rop, Minister of Finance of

20. His Excellency Mr. Patrice Trovoada, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sao Tome and Principe

21. His Excellency The Honourable Famara Jatta, Secretary of State for Finance and Economic Affairs of the Gambia

22. His Excellency Mr. Simba Makoni, Minister of Finance and Economic Development of Zimbabwe

23. His Excellency The Honourable Gaston Browne, Minister of Planning of Antigua and Barbuda

24. His Excellency Mr. Celso Lafer, Minister for External Relations of Brazil

25. His Excellency The Honourable Timothy Harris, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Saint Kitts and Nevis

26. His Excellency Mr. Shigeru Uetake, Senior Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs of

27. Her Excellency Ms. Anne Konate, Minister in charge of Economic Development of Burkina Faso 4 No. 6

28. His Excellency Mr. Pehin Dato Ahmad Wally Skinner, Deputy Minister of Finance of Brunei Darussalam

29. His Excellency Shaikh Ebrahim Bin Khalifa Al-Khalifa, Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Finance and National Economy of

30. His Excellency Mr. Nikola Yankov, Vice-Minister of

31. His Excellency Mr. Jandranko Prlić, Vice-Minister for Foreign Trade and Economic Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina

32. His Excellency The Honourable Patrick Kalifungwa, M.P., Deputy Minister of Finance and National Plan- ning of Zambia

33. His Excellency Mr. Abdulaziz Al-Shamsi, Chairman of the Delegation of the

34. His Excellency Mr. Jacques Boisson, Chairman of the Delegation of Monaco

35. His Excellency Mr. Martin Andjaba, Chairman of the Delegation of Namibia

36. His Excellency Mr. Sotirios Zacheos, Chairman of the Delegation of Cyprus

37. His Excellency Mr. Sergei Ling, Chairman of the Delegation of Belarus

38. His Excellency Mr. Mikhail Wehbe, Chairman of the Delegation of the Syrian Arab Republic

39. His Excellency Mr. Jaume Gaytán, Chairman of the Delegation of Andorra

40. His Excellency Dr. Lamuel Stanislaus, Chairman of the Delegation of Grenada

41. Mr. Diego Fernández de Cevallos, Presidente de la Mesa Directiva del Senado de México (Parliamenta- rians forum)

42. Mr. Richard McCormick, President, International Chamber of Commerce (Business forum)

43. Representative of the civil society forum

2. Credentials of representatives to the Conference [7]

(b) Report of the Credentials Committee (A/CONF.198/7)

3. Adoption of the report of the Conference [12] (A/CONF.198/L.1 and Add.1-3)

4. Expression of gratitude to the host country

Introduction and action on draft resolution A/CONF.198/L.2

5. Closure of the Conference

Participants wishing to follow the proceedings of the plenary sessions may do so in the overflow room (Conference Room 7).

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SUMMARY OF MEETINGS

Thursday, 21 March 2002

GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT

3rd plenary meeting Rodríguez Echeverría, President of the Republic of Costa Rica; H.E. The Honourable Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister Summit segment [10] and Minister for Finance, Planning, Economic Development, Labour, Information, Grenadines and Legal Affairs of Saint (a) General exchange of views Vincent and the Grenadines; H.E. Mr. Stjepan Mesić, Presi- dent of the Republic of ; H.E. Mrs. Tarja Halonen, His .Excellency Mr. Vicente Fox, President of Mexico President of the Republic of Finland; and H.E. Mr. Ion Iliescu, and President of the Conference, declared open the summit President of Romania. segment of the International Conference on Financing for De- velopmen and addressed the Conference. Note: The summary of the remaining plenary meetings of the Conference will appear in an issue of the Journal, to be His Excellency Mr. , Secretary-General of the published at Headquarters in New York. United Nations addressed the Conference

Addresses were made by His Excellency Mr. Han Se- Summit Round Table C3 ung-Soo, President of the United Nations General Assembly, Mr. James D. Wolfensohn, President of the World , Mr. Looking ahead Horst Köhler, Managing Director of the International Mone- tary Fund (IMF) and by Mr. Mike Moore, Director-General of The Co-Chairmen, H.E. Mr..Miguel Rodríguez Echever- the (WTO). ría, President of Costa Rica, H.E. Mr. Alejandro Toledo Man- rique, President of Peru, and Mr. Mike Moore, Director- General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), opened the Addresses were made by H.E. Mr. Hugo Chávez Frías, summit round table and made introductory statements. President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (on behalf of the Group of 77 and ); H.E. Mr. José María Aznar, President of the Government of the Kingdom of (on Statements were made by the representatives of Argen- behalf of the European Union); H.E. Mr. Olusegun Obasanjo, tina, Austria, China, Canada, Japan, Saint Lucia, the Republic President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; H.E. Mr. Ale- of Korea, Suriname, Lesotho, Venezuela, Yemen, Turkey, jandro Toledo Manrique, President of the Republic of Peru; Iraq, Italy and Ghana. H.E. Mr. Leo Falcam, President of the Federated States of Micronesia;H.E. Mr. Agbéyomé Messan Kodjo, Prime Minis- Statements were made by following institutional stake- ter of the Togolese Republic; H.E. Mr. Guy Verhofstadt, holder participants: Organization for Economic Cooperation Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Belgium; H.E. The Right and Development/Development Assistance Committee; Honourable Jean Chrétien, Prime Minister of Canada; H.E. Commun Fund for Commodities; ; European Mr. José Maria Pereira Neves, Prime Minister of the Republic Commission; and International Monetary Fund. of Cape Verde; H.E. Mr. Thabo Mbeki, President of the Re- public of ; H.E. Mr. Tommy Remengesau, Jr., Statements were made by following business sector par- President of the Republic of Palau; H.E. Mr. Enrique Bolaños ticipants: Samuels Associates; Zurich Group; Fundación Geyer, President of the Republic of ; H.E. Mr. Fidel Merced; Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services; and Castro Ruz, President of the Republic of Cuba; H.E. Mr. Fran- Bank of the . cisco Guillermo Flores Pérez, President of the Republic of El Salvador; H.E. Mr. Boris Trajkovski, President of The former Statements were made by following civil society partici- Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia; H.E. Mr. Jorge Battle pants: International Confederation of Free Trade Unions Ibáñez, President of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; H.E. (ICFTU)/ORIT; Development Alternatives with Women for a Mr. Festus Mogae, President of the Republic of Botswana; new Era (DAWN); African Women's Economic Policy Net- H.E. Mr. Ricardo Maduro Joest, President of the Republic of work (AWEPON/EcuTeam); International Council for Social Honduras; H.E. Mr. Hipólito Mejía Domínguez, President of Welfare; Rural Reconstruction Nepal; Liberal Society Insti- the Dominican Republic; H.E. Dr. Pascoal Manuel Mocumbi, tute; and South African Council of Churches (Ecumenical Prime Minister of the Republic of Mozambique; His Majesty Team). King Abdullah Bin Al Hussein, King of the Hashemite King- dom of Jordan; H.E. Mr. Abderrahman Youssoufi, Prime Min- ister of the Kingdom of Morocco; H.E. Mr. Miguel Ángel The Co-Chairmen made concluding remarks. 6 No. 6

Summit Round Table C4 Statements were made by following institutional stake- holder participants: United Nations; International Monetary Looking ahead Fund; World Health Organization; United Nations Develop- ment Programme (UNDP); and OPEC Fund for International The Co-Chairmen, H.E. Mr. Ion Iliescu, President of Development. Romania, and H. E. Mr. Thaksi Shinavatra, Prime Minister of Thailand, opened the round table and made introductory Statements were made by following business sector par- statements. ticipants: Institute of Liberty and Democracy; ONDEO Suez; Cisneros; Total Fina Elf; and Calvert Funds.

Statements were made by the representatives of Monaco, Statements were made by the following civil society par- Malaysia, Colombia, Singapore, Brazil, Slovakia, Bangladesh, ticipants: Jubilee Debt Program; Country Women Association Pakistan, Belize, , the Sudan and the Islamic Re- of Nigeria (COWAN); Asociación Nacional de Economistas y public of Iran. Contadores de Cuba; International Confederation of Free Trade Unions/Africa; Canadian Labour Congress; Center for Development Studies/Arab NGO Network for Development; The following representatives of institutional stakeholders and Mexican Action Network for Free Trade. made statements: Commonwealth Secretariat; Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development; World Bank; The Co-Chairmen made concluding remards. United Nations; and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent.

The following representatives of the business sector made Summit Round Table C2 statements: GTFI Fund Management; Electrolux; Potomac Associates; Cisneros Group of Companies; Calvert Funds; and Looking ahead African Business Round Table.

The Co-Chairmen, H.E. Mr. Thabo Mbeki, President The following representatives of civil society made of South Africa, and Mr. Horst Kőhler, Managing Director of statements: World Confederation of Labor (WCL); Southern the International Monetary Fund, opened the round table and and Eastern African Trade Negotiations, Red Thread/ made introductory statements. Women´s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO); Instituto del Tercer Mundo/Social Watch; Gender and Economic Reforms in Africa; Development Alternatives Statements were made by the representatives of Zambia, with Women for a New Era (DAWN)/Iniciativa Cartagena; , France, Finland, , Rwanda, Fiji, Panama, and Red Latinoamericano Mujeres Transformando la Econo- Ireland, Haiti and Morocco. mia.

The Co-Chairmen made concluding remarks. The following representatives of institutional stakeholders made statements: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development; World Bank; World Trade Organization; and United Nations. Summit Round Table C1 The following representatives of the business sector made Looking ahead statements: International Chamber of Commerce; Ultraquimia Group; and FUNDES. The Co-Chairmen, H.E. Mr. Guy Verhofstadt, Prime Min- ister of Beglgium, H.E. Mr. José María Aznar López, Presi- The following representatives of civil society made dent of Spain and Mr. James Wolfensohn, President of the statements: Women´s Environment and Development Organi- World Bank, opened the summit round table and made intro- zation; Women´s Eyes on the Multilaterals/ALCADECO; Ox- ductory statements. fam International, North-South Institute/Social Watch, International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU); Statements were made by the representatives of Nigeria, African Forum and Network on Debt and Development the United States of America, the Czech Republic, India, Guy- (AFRODAD); and Iniciativa Cartagena/Women´s Popular ana, Cuba, Australia, , Kenya, New Zealand, the Education Network. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Nepal, Togo, Maldives and Algeria. The Co-Chairmen made concluding remarks.

No. 6 7 ANNOUNCEMENTS

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Announcement

A list of side events is contained in a document, issued in English only (see DAILY LIST OF SIDE EVENTS No. 6).

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PROTOCOL AND SOCIAL EVENTS

TODAY, 22 MARCH, from 11.30 a.m. to 2.30 p.m. - RETREAT

The President of Mexico is holding a retreat reunion, in the Museum of Mexican History, for Heads of State and Government attending the Summit followed by a luncheon at the same venue. Participation in this event will be restricted to Heads of State and Government. One member of their delegation can go with them and will be accommodated in an adjoining room.

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