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International Colloquium on Political Pluralism and Electoral Processes
Program

Rabat, 1–3 October 2005
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).