IOM 105th Session of the #Council (19 November 2014)

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C/105/1/Rev.1

Original: English 19 November 2014

COUNCIL 105th Session To be held in Conference Room XVII at the Palais des Nations in Geneva Tuesday, 25 November, to Friday, 28 November 2014* REVISED PROVISIONAL AGENDA Tuesday, 25 November 2014 10.00 – 11.30

Item 1:

Opening of the session and credentials of representatives and observers

Item 2:

Report of the Chairperson of the Council

Item 3:

Election of officers

Item 4:

Adoption of the agenda

Item 5:

Admission of new observers (i)

INTERSOS

(ii)

Save the Children

(iii) Hague Institute for Global Justice (iv) Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean (v)

“La Caixa” Foundation

(vi) United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) (vii) African Foundation for Development (AFFORD) (viii) World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (ix) Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) (x)

Migrant Help

(xi) United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) (xii) United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) (xiii) World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

* Participants are informed that a video recording will be made of the Council proceedings


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Tuesday, 25 November 2014 (continued) 11.30 – 12.30

Item 6:

Report of the Director General

12.30 – 13.00

Item 7:

Special guest Abdullah Almatouq Advisor in the Amiri Diwan of the State of Kuwait, Chairman of the International Islamic Charitable Organization, United Nations Secretary-General Envoy for Humanitarian Affairs

15.00 – 16.30

16.30 – 18.00

18.15 – 20.00

Item 8:

Draft reports on the 103rd Session and the 104th (Special) Session of the Council

Item 9:

Reports on the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Sessions of the Standing Committee on Programmes and Finance

(a)

Status report on outstanding contributions to the Administrative Part of the Budget and Member State voting rights

(b)

Summary update on the Programme and Budget for 2014

(c)

Programme and Budget for 2015

(d)

Progress report on the 2014–2016 budget-strengthening plan for the core structure

(e)

Improvements of the privileges and immunities granted to the Organization by States

(f)

Report of the Chairperson of the Working Group on IOM–UN relations and the IOM Strategy

(g)

Other items discussed at the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Sessions of the Standing Committee on Programmes and Finance

Item 10:

General debate Statements by members

Reception hosted by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) at the “Bar Serpent” (just outside Conference Room XVII). Photo exhibition: Environmental migrants: the last illusion (sponsored by the FDFA).


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Wednesday, 26 November 2014 10.00 – 10.30

Item 11:

IOM emergency response (video)

10.30 – 13.00

Item 10:

General debate (continued) Statements by members

15.00 – 17.00

Item 12:

High-level segment: Human mobility, environment and climate

Video message:

Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Monique Barbut, Executive Secretary, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification Marcelo Mena Carrasco, Vice Minister of Environment, Chile Shameem Ahsan, Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations Claude Wild, Ambassador, Head of the Human Security Division, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Switzerland

Moderator: 17.00 – 18.00

Item 10:

Laura Thompson, Deputy Director General, IOM General debate (continued) Statements by members

Thursday, 27 November 2014 10.00 – 10.30

Item 13

Keynote address Graça Machel, Founder, Graça Machel Trust, President, Foundation for Community Development

10.30 – 13.00

Item 14:

High-level segment: Post-2015 UN development agenda and migration Peter Sutherland, Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations on International Migration and Development Mary Chinery-Hesse, Friend of the African Union Panel of the Wise and former ILO Deputy Director-General Michael Gerber, Ambassador, Swiss Special Envoy for Global Sustainable Development

Moderator: 13.30 – 14.30

William Lacy Swing, Director General, IOM Side event: Book launch and panel on Human mobility in the South


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Thursday, 27 November 2014 (continued) 15.00 – 15.15

Item 15:

Presentation by Joon Oh Jang, Director, Migration Research and Training Centre (MRTC), Republic of Korea

15.15 – 17.00

Item 16:

Migrants’ voices Jasmine Lee, Member of the National Assembly, the Republic of Korea Cécile Kyenge, Member of the European Parliament, Italy Ulrike Helene Zamudio, Masters Student of Human Geography, Norway Yurika Tsuda Moribe, Clinical Psychologist, Japan

Moderator: 17.00 – 18.00

Item 10:

Leonard Doyle, IOM General debate (continued) Statements by members

Friday, 28 November 2014 10.00 – 13.00

Item 10:

General debate (continued) Statements by members and observers

15.00 – 17.00

Item 10:

General debate (continued) Statements by members and observers

17.00 – 18.00

Item 17:

Any other business

Item 18:

Date and place of the next sessions


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