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Tuesday, 15 May 2001

Afternoon   Evening

Morning

1 - H.E. Mr. Ismal omar Guelleh
President of Djibouti (French)

2 - H.E. Taburoro Tito
President of the Republic of Kiribati, Chairman of the Pacific Islands Forum (English)

3 - H.E. Ali Khalif Galaydh
Prime Minister of Somalia (English)

4 - S.E. Mme. Ana Dias Lourenco
Ministre du plan et ordonnateur national, Angola (French)

5 - H.E. Mr. Guangxiang Sun
Vice Minister, Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, China (English)

6 - H.E. Mr. Shigeo Uetake
Senior Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs, Japan (English)

7 - H.E. Mr. Somsavat Lengsavad
Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lao People's Democratic Republic (English)

8 - Mr. Abdulrahman Mohammad Ali Osman
Head of delegation, Yemen (Arabic) (pdf)

9 - H.E. Mr. Hassan Musa Sillah
Secretary of State for Trade, Industry and Employment, Gambia (English)

10 - Mr. Namanga Ngongi
Deputy Executive Director (WFP) (English)

11 - Mr. Michael Bohnet
Director General of Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany (English)

12 - H.E. Mr.Girma Birru
Minister of Economic Development and Cooperation of Ethiopia (English)

13 - H.E. Ms. Anne Kristin Sydnes
Minister of Development Cooperation of Norway (English)

14 - H.E. Mohamed Duld Nany
Ministre des Affaires Economiques et du Développement, Mauritania (French)

15 - H.E. Ms. Maj-Inger Klingvall
Minister for Development and Cooperation, Migration and Asylum Policy of Sweden (English)

16 - H.E. Mr. Ioannis Cambolis
Head of delegation, Ambassador, Greece (English)

Afternoon

1 - H.E. Ms. Liz O'Donnell
Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs w/special responsibility for Overseas Development Assistance and Human Rights, Ireland (English)

2 - H.E. Mr. Kmonicek
Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Czech Republic (English)

3 - H.E. Mr. Shah A. M. S. Kibria
Minister of Finance, Bangladesh

4 - H.E. Ms. Satu Hassi
Minister for Development Cooperation of Finland (English)

5 - H.E. Mr. Hans Joachim Keil
Minister of Trade of Samoa (English)

6 - H.E. Mr. Kamlesh Sharma
Head of Delegation, Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York, India (English)

7 - H.E. Mr. A. Selvarajah
Ambassador of Singapore (English)

8 - Mr. Brian Emmett
Vice President of CIDA, Canada (French)

9 - H.E. Mr. Abderahman N. Chalgham
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (Arabic) (pdf) (English) (French)

10 - Mr. Mosé P. Tjitendero
Speaker of the National Assembly of Namibia, Vice-President of the IPU Executive Committee, Inter Parliamentary Union (English)

11 - Mr. Sadig Rasheed
Director,Programme Division/Head of delegation (UNICEF) (English)

12 - Mr. Carlos Magariños
Director General (UNIDO) (English)

13 - H.E. Mr. Andrew Natsios
Administrator, United States Agency for International Development, United States of America (English)

14 - Mr. Lennart Bage   [photo]
President, International Fund for Agricultural Development (English) (French) (Spanish)

15 - S.E. M. Mathias Sinamenye
Deuxième Vice-President, Burundi (French)

16 - S.E. Mr. Mario A. Losada
Presidente del Senado en ejercicio de la vicepresidencia de la Nación de Argentina (Spanish)

17 - H.E. Mr. Arif Mamedov
Ambassador, Head of Delegation, Azerbaijan (English)

Evening

1 - H.E. Mrs. Kadi Sesay
Minister for Development and Economic Planning, Sierra Leone (English)

2 - S.E. M. Joseph-Philippe Antonio
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Haiti (French)

3 - S.E. Mme. Camara Hadja Mahawa Bangoura
Ministre à la presidence chargée des affaires étrangeres et de la cooperation, Guinea (French)

4 - Mr. Rolf W. Boehnke
Managing Director, Common fund for Commodities (English)

5 - Mr. Hulaschand Golchha
Former-President of WASME, and Chairman of IC on LDCs, WASME international Committee on LDCs (English)

6 - Mr. Gale U. Day
Senior Policy Advisor to the Executive Director (UNIDCP) (English)

7 - H.E. Mr. P.I. Ayewoh
Ambassador, Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Nigeria (English)

8 - Mr. Hama Arba Diallo
Executive Secretary, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (French)