International Colloquium on Political Pluralism and Electoral Processes

Saturday, 1 October 2005

20:00

Welcome reception hosted by the Government of Italy and No Peace Without Justice, Hotel Hilton Gardens

Sunday, 2 October 2005

09.30
10.30
Opening session

Interventions by:
Mr Omar Hilale, Secretary General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of Morocco
Mr Alfredo Mantica, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Italy
Ms Frances Guy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, UK (Presidency of the G8)
Mr Sergey Vasilievich Vershinin, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Russia (incoming Presidency of the G8)
Mr Mehmet Akat, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Turkey (DAD sponsor)
Mr Mohy A. Al-Dhabbi, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yemen (DAD sponsor)
Mr Massimo Tommasoli, Acting Secretary General, IDEA
Mr Ali Belhaj, President, Maroc 2020
Ms Emma Bonino, MEP, Founder of No Peace Without Justice

11.30
13:30
Opening of the Thematic Sessions
Thematic Session I: Standards, status and role of political parties
Co-chairs: Mr Riccardo Sessa, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Italy
Ms Fattoum Koudama, MP, Morocco
Thematic Session II: Electoral systems, rules and monitoring
Co-chairs: Mr Mohamed Al-Tayeb, Shura Council , Yemen
Mr Riad Malki, Panorama, Palestine
Thematic Session III: Access to the media and political pluralism
Co-chairs: Mr Levent Gümrükçü, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Turkey ;
Mr Abdul Karim Al-Eryani, former Prime Minister , Yemen

13:30
15:00
Lunch

15:00
19:00
Resumed Thematic Sessions, general Discussion

20:00

Reception hosted in honour of the participants by the Government of the Kingdom of Morocco at the Villa d'Hôtes

Monday, 3 October

9:30
11:30
 Plenary Session

Co-chairs: Mr Youssef Amrani, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of Morocco
Mr Riccardo Sessa, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Italy
Reports from the Thematic Sessions and debate
Thematic Session I: Standards, status and role of political parties
Co-chairs: Mr Riccardo Sessa, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Italy
Ms Fattoum Koudama, MP, Morocco
Thematic Session II: Electoral systems, rules and monitoring
Co-chairs: Mr Mohamed Al-Tayeb, Shura Council , Yemen
Mr Riad Malki, Panorama, Palestine
Thematic Session III: Access to the media and political pluralism
Co-chairs: Mr Levent Gümrükçü, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Turkey ;
Mr Abdul Karim Al-Eryani, former Prime Minister , Yemen
Adoption of Colloquium outcome documents and Rabat Declaration

12:00

13:00
Closing Session

Chair: Mr Gianfranco Dell'Alba, Secretary General, No Peace Without Justice
Interventions by:
Mr Yousef Mohamed Mahmoud, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bahrain
Mr Scott Carpenter, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State , USA
Mr Zulmi Aziz, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Afghanistan
Mr Muhammad Shaaban, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Egypt
Mr Mensur Akgun, Director of Foreign Policy Program, TESEV
Mr Ezeddine Al Ashbahi, Chair, HRITC
Mr Abdalla Hamdok, Regional Director for Middle East & Africa, IDEA
Closing remarks by
Mr Alfredo Mantica, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Italy
Mr Youssef Amrani, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of Morocco

The working languages are Arabic, English, French and Italian. Simultaneous interpretation will be available in the four languages for the Plenary and in Arabic, English and French for the Thematic Sessions.
The International Colloquium on Political Pluralism and Electoral Processes is hosted by Morocco and co-organised with Italy , in partnership with No Peace Without Justice and Maroc 2020, in cooperation with the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) and the Italian Cooperation.
The Democracy Assistance Dialogue program is co-sponsored by the Governments of Italy, Turkey and Yemen and conducted in partnership with No Peace Without Justice (Italy), the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (Turkey), and the Human Rights Information and Training Centre (Yemen).