Dominican Republic
28-29 January 2019
List of Speakers
Monday 28 January 2019
Opening
Luis Ayala, SI Secretary General
George Papandreou, SI President
H.E. Danilo Medina, President of the Dominican Republic
First theme: Promoting multilateralism to secure peace, sustainable development, to target poverty, achieve greater equality, and to ensure a world with more solidarity
Eero Heinäluoma (Finland, SDP) SI Vice-President
Ciro Gomes (Brazil PDT)
Chantal Kambiwa (Cameroon, SDF) SI Vice-President
Haider Zaman Qureshi (Pakistan, PPP)
Jesús Rodríguez (Argentina, UCR) SI Vice-President
Victor Benoit (Haiti, Rasanbleman) SI Vice-President
Nabil Shaath (Palestine, Fatah) SI Vice-President
Avshalom Vilan (Israel, Meretz)
Second theme: Defending rights and freedoms against intolerance, discrimination, xenophobia and populism
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas (Mexico) Honorary SI President
Rafael Michelini (Uruguay, NE) SI Vice-President
Elsa Espinoza (Mexico, PRI) SI Vice-President
Carlos Valero (Venezuela, UNT)
Tuesday 29 January 2019
Report of the Finance Committee
Maurice Poler (Venezuela, AD) co-Chair of the Committee
Report of the Ethics Committee
Ariane Fontenelle (PS, Belgium) Chair of the Committee
Report of the Committee on Gender Parity
Ouafa Hajji, Co-Chair of the Committee
Second theme: Defending rights and freedoms against intolerance, discrimination, xenophobia and populism (contuation)
Carlos Lupi (Brazil, PDT) SI Vice-President
Hoshyar Siwaily (KDP, Iraq)
Ricardo Navarrete (PRSD, Chile)
Third theme: Protecting our democracies from new threats – the deliberate discrediting of democratic institutions and the press, fake news, cyber- attacks and invasive technology