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Monday, 5 June 2000
Morning session

1 - H.E. Dr. Theo-Ben Gurirab
President of the United Nations General Assembly

2 - Mr. Kofi Annan Secretary-General of the United Nations

3 - Chairperson of the Preparatory Committee, Ms. Christine Kapalata (United Republic of Tanzania)

4 - H.E. Ms. Isatou Njie-Saidy
Vice-President of the Republic of Gambia

5 - H.E. Mr. Didjob Divungi Di Ndinge
Vice-President of the Gaboneses Republic

6 - H.E. Mr. Hage Geingob
Prime Minister of the Republic of Namibia

7 - Her Excellency Mrs. Wu Yi
State Councillor of China

8 - Her Excellency Mrs. Dilbar Gulyamova
Deputy Prime Minister of Uzbekistan

9 - Her Excellency Mrs. Geraldine Fraser-Moloketi
Minister, Department of Public Services and Administration of South Africa

10 - Her Excellency Mrs. Adriana Delpiano
Minister for Women's Affairs of Chile

11 - Her Excellency Mrs. Maria de Belém Roseira
Minister for Equality of Portugal

12 - Her Excellency The Honorable Mary Nagu
Minister for Women's Affairs of the United Republic of Tanzania

13 - Her Excellency Mrs. Suzanna Stanik
Minister of Justice of Ukraine

14 - Her Excellency Mrs. Neziha Zarrouk
Minister for Women's and Family affairs of Tunisia

Afternoon session

1 - Her Excellency Mrs. Sumiko Iwao
Chairperson of the Japanese Delegation

2 - Her Excellency The Hon. Zinnatun Chowdhury
State Minister for Women's and Children Affairs of Bengladesh

3 - Her Excellency The Hon. Jocelyn Newman
Minister for Family and Minister assisting the Prime Minister of Australia

4 - Her Excellency Mrs. Margareta Winberg
Minister for Gender Equality of Sweden

5 - Her Excellency Mrs. Cristian Munduate
Minister Social Wealthfare Secretariat of the Presidency of Guatemala

6 - Her Excellency Mrs. Lourdes Maria Rodríguez De Flores
Secretary of the family of El Salvador

7 - Her Excellency Khunying Supatra Masdit
Minister to the Prime Minister's Office of Thailand

8 - Her Excellency Mrs. Maria Josée Jacobs
Minister for the Advancement of Women of Luxembourg

9 - H.E. Mr. Joao Bernardo de Miranda
Minister for external Relations of Angola

10 - Ms. Paik Kyung-Nam
Chairperson of the Presidential Commission on Women's Affairs of the Republic of Korea

11 - Her Excellency Dr. Andrea Willi
Minister for Family Affairs and Equality between Men and Women of Lichtenstein

12 - Her Excellency Mrs. Dalia Itzik
Minister of the Environment of Israel

13 - H.E. Mr. Murli Manohar Joshi
Minister of Human Resource Development of India

14 - H.E. Mrs. Nicole Pery
Secretary of State for Women's Rights and Professional Training of France

15 - H.E. Mr. Rimantas Kairelis
Vice-Minister of social Security and Labour of Lithuania

16 - Her Excellency Mrs. Norica Nicolai
Secretary of State, Minister of Labour of Romania

17 - Her Excellency Mrs. Concepcion Dancausa Treviño
Secretary-General for Social Affairs of Spain

18 - Her Excellency Ms. Vasso Papandreou
Minister of the Interior, Public Administration and Decentralization of Greece

19 - Her Excellency Mrs. Valentina Matvienko
Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation

20 - Mrs. Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings
hairperson of the Delegation of Ghana


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Tuesday, 6 June 2000
Morning session

1 - H.E. The Right Hon. Lt. Gen. Christon Tembo
Vice-President of the Republic of Zambia

2 - H.E. Mr. Hasan Gemici
Minister of State of Turkey

3 - Her Excellency Ms. Vilma Espín Guillois
Member of the Council of State, President of the Cuban Women's Federation

4 - Her Excellency Mrs. Ha Thi Khiet
Chairperson of the Committee for the Advancement of Women of Viet Nam

5 - Her Excellency Mrs. Hedy Fry
Secretary of State, Status of Women of Canada

6 - Her Excellency Ms. Francesca Michelotti
Minister for Internal Affairs and Justice of San Marino

7 - Her Excellency Mrs. Olga Dargel
Minister for Social Protection of Belarus

8 - Her Excellency The Honourable Katia Bellilo
Minister for Egual Opportunities of Italy

9 - Her Excellency The Hon. Indranie Chandarpal
Minister of Human Service and Social Security of Guyana

10 - H.E. Mr. John O'Donoghue
Minister of Justice, Equality and Law Reform of Ireland

11 - Her Excellency Ms. Zobaida Jalal
Minister for Women's Development, Social Welfare and Special Education of Pakistan

12 - Her Excellency Mrs. Shahrizat Abdul Jalil
Deputy Minister, Office of the Prime Minister of Malaysia

13 - Her Excellency Mrs. Mirjana Lazarova-Trajkovska
Assistant Minister for Internal Affairs of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

14 - Mrs. Suzan Mubarak
President of the National Council for Women, Chairperson of the Delegation of Egypt

15 - H.E. Mr. Win Mra
Chairman of the Delegation of Myanmar

16 - H.E. Mr. Mohammad Abulhasan
Chairman of the Delegation of Kuwait

17 - H.E. Mr. Lamuel Stanislaus
Chairman of the Delegation of Grenada

18 - H.E. Mr. Peter Dickson Donigi
Chairman of the Delegation of Papua New Guinea

Afternoon session

1 - Her Excellency Mrs. Yvonne Ravales-Resida
Minister for Regional Affairs of Suriname

2 - Her Excellency Dr. Christine Bergmann
Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth of Germany

3 - H.E. Mr. Peter Magvasi
Minister of Labor, Social Affairs and Family of Slovakia

4 - H.E. Mr. Pall Petursson
Minister of Social Affairs of Iceland

5 - Her Excellency The Hon. Portia Simpson-Miller
Minister of Tourism and Sport (with responsability for Women's Affairs) of Jamaica

6 - Her Excellency The Hon. Ms. Daphne Phillips
Minister of Culture and Gender Affairs of Trinidad and Tobago

7 - H.E. The Honourable Hamilton Lashley
Minister of Social Transformation of Barbados

8 - H.E. Mr. Kotbi Al-Mahdi
Minister of Social planning of Sudan

9 - Her Excellency Mrs. Jaotody Noeline
Minister of Population, the Advancement of Women and Children of Madagascar

10 - Her Excellency Mrs. Mintata Mint Hedeid
Secretary of State for the Status of Women of Mauritania

11 - Her Excellency The Honourable Kamala Pant
Minister of State for Women, Children and Social Welfare of Nepal

12 - H.E. Baroness Margaret Jay of Paddington
Minister for Women, Leader of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

13 - Her Excellency Ms. Annelies Verstand-Bogaert
Secretary of State for Social Affairs and Employment of Netherlands

14 - H.E. Mr. Lazaros Savvides
Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Justice and Public Order of Cyprus

15 - Mrs. Nasly Lozano
Presidential Counsellor of Colombia

16 - Ms. Maitha Salem Al-Shamsi
Adviser to Her Highness, the First Lady, President of the United Arab Emirates Women's Association

17 - Her Excellency Mrs. Elisenda Vives
Chief of the Cabinet of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Andorra

18 - Ms. Sheila Roseau
Director for Gender Affairs of Antigua and Barbuda


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Wednesday, 7 June 2000
Morning session

1 - Her Excellency The Honourable Wandira Kazibwe
Vice-President of the Republic of Uganda

2 - Her Excellency Mrs. Laurette Onkelinx
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Employment of Belgium

3 - Her Excellency Mrs. Lidia Gutu
Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova

4 - Her Excellency Ms. Mu Sochua
Minister for Women's and Veterans's Affairs of Cambodia

5 - Her Excellency Mrs. Bruce Mariama Aribot
Minister for Social Affairs, Advancement of Women and Childood of Guinea

6 - Her Excellency Mrs. Gloria Valerín
Minister for the Status of Women of Costa Rica

7 - Her Excellency Mrs. Onechanh Thammavong
Vice-President of the National Assembly and President of the Lao Women's Union of the Lao People's Democratic Republic

8 - Her Excellency The Honourable Aisha Ismail
Minister for Women's Affairs and Youth Development of Nigeria

9 - H.E. Mr. Christopher Matumbike
Vice-Minister of National Affairs, Employment Creation and Cooperatives of Zimbabwe

10 - Her Excellency Mrs. Andrée Lahoud
Chairperson of the Delegation of Lebanon

11 - H.E. Mr. Rashid Alimov
Chairperson of the Delegation of Tajikistan

12 - Her Excellency Mrs. Yu Foo Yee Shoon
Senior Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Community Development of Singapore

13 - Mrs. Guadalupe Gomez-Maganda
General Coordinator of the National Commission for Wemen of Mexico

14 - Her Excellency Mrs. Amelou Benitez-Reyes
Chairperson, National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women of Philippines

15 - Her Excellency Mrs. Ruth Cardoso
President, Council of "Communidade Solidaria" of Brazil

16 - Mrs. Manel Abeysekera
Chairperson of the National Committee on Women of Sri Lanka

Afternoon session

1 - H.E. Mr. Om Pradhan
Chairperson of the Delegation of Bhutan

2 - Mrs Jewl Howard Taylor
Chairperson of the Delegation of Liberia

3 - Her Excellency Ms. Zeljka Antunovi
Deputy Prime Minister of Croatia

4 - Her Excellency Mrs. Mary Banda
Minister of Gender, Youth and Community of Malawi

5 - Her Excellency Mrs. Virgilia Matabele
Minister for Women's Affairs and Coordination of Mozambique

6 - H.E. Mr. Eliuel Pretrick
Secretary for Health, Education and Social Affairs of the Federated States of Micronesia

7 - Her Excellency Mrs. Jeanne Dambendzet
Minister for Civil Service, Administrative Reforme and Advancement of Women of Congo

8 - Her Excellency Mrs. Constance Yaï
Minister of the Advancement of Women of Côte d'Ivoire

9 - Her Excellency Mrs. Diarra Afoussatou Thiero
Minister of the Advancement of Women of Mali

10 - Her Excellency Mrs. Katrin Saks
Minister for Population and Ethnic Affairs of Estonia

11 - Her Excellency Ms. Zahra Shojaei
Advisor to the President and Head of the Center for Women's Participation of the Islamic Republic of Iran

12 - H.E. The Honourable Noah Katana Ngala
Minister for Home Affairs, Heritage and Sports of Kenya

13 - Her Excellency Mrs. Maha Qanout
Minister of Culture of the Syrian Arab Republic

14 - Her Excellency Mrs. Angelina Muganza
Minister for Gender and Women's Development of Rwanda

15 - Her Excellency The Honourable Sarah Flood-Beaubrun
Minister for Health, Family Affairs, Human Services and Gender Affairs of Saint Lucia

16 - His Royal Highness Prince Sobandla Dlamini
Minister for Home Affairs of Swaziland

17 - Her Excellency Ms. Karita Bekkemellen Orheim
Minister for Children's Family Affairs of Norway

18 - Her Excellency Mrs. Gisèle Guigma
Minister for Advancement of Women of Burkina Faso

19 - Her Excellency Sheikha Hessa Bint Khalifa Bint Hamad Al-Thani
Vice-President of the Supreme Council for Family Affairs of Qatar

20 - Her Excellency The Honourable Helen d'Amato, MP
Chairperson of the Social Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives of Malta

21 - Her Excellency Ms. Irene Freudenschuss-Reichl
Chairperson of the Delegation of Austria


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Thursday, 8 June 2000
Morning session

1 - Her Excellency Mrs. Gladys Caballero De Arévalo
Vice-President of the Republic of Honduras

2 - H.E. Mr. Saidie Tohma Abbas
Minister for Labour and Social Affairs of Iraq

3 - Her Excellency Ms. Judit Szemkeö Szilàgyi
State Secretary, Ministry of Social and Family Affairs of Hungary

4 - Her Excellency Ms. Aitkui Samkova
Minister, Chairperson of the National Commission on Family and Women's Affairs of Kazakhstan

5 - H.E. Mr. Osmo Soininvaara
Minister for Health and Social Welfare of Finland

6 - Her Excellency Mrs. Nyam-Osor Tuya
Minister for External Relations of Mongolia

7 - Her Excellency Ms. Madeleine Albright
Secretary of State of the United Nations of America

8 - Her Excellency The Honourable Hilda Kari, MP
Minister for Women, Youth and Sports of the Solomon Islands

9 - Her Excellency Mrs. Romaine Ndorimana
Minister for social and Women's affairs of Burundi

10 - Her Excellency Mrs. Thuwaiba Ahmed Al-Barwany
Under Secretary for Social Affairs of Oman

11 - Her Excellency Mrs. Jarmila Moravec De Cerruto
Vice-Minister for Gender and Family Affairs of Bolivia

12 - Her Excellency Mrs. Aksoltan Ataeva
Chairperson of the delegation of Turkmenistan

13 - Ms. Roselyn Hazelle
Permanet Secretary of the Ministry of Community and Social Development and Gender Affairs of Saint Kitts and Nevis

14 - H.E. Mr. Abylabek Asankanov
Office of the President of the Republic of Kyrgystan

15 - Her Excellency Mrs. Maria Isabel Baquerizo De Noboa
Chairperson of the Delegation of Ecuador

16 - H.E. Mr. Jemat Haji Ampal
Chairperson of the Delegation of Brunei Darussalam

17 - Ms. Liz Gordon, MP
House of the Representatives of New Zealand

18 - Her Excellency Mrs. Intisar Al-Wazir
Minister for Social Affairs of Palestinian Authority. Palestine

Afternoon session

1 - Her Excellency Mrs. Tembé Ashira Assih-Aïssah
Minister for Social Affairs and Advancement of Women of Togo

2 - Her Excellency Mrs. Tadaleh Michael
Minister for Women's Affairs Sub-Sector, Office of the Prime Minister of Ethiopia

3 - H.E. The Honourable Thebe David Mogani
Minister for Labour and Home Affairs of Botswana

4 - H.E. Mr. Jerzy Kropiwnicki
Minister, Head of the Government Center for Strategic Studies of Poland

5 - Her Excellency Mrs. Maria Fernanda Flores De Alemán
Coordinator of the Social Cabinet of Nicaragua

6 - Her Excellency Ms. Jytte Andersen
Minister for Gender Equality of Denmark

7 - Her Excellency Ms. Zohra Guliyeva
Minister of the State Committee for Women's Issues of Azerbaijan

8 - Her Excellency Mrs. Gladys Gutierrez
Minister for Women's Affairs of the Dominican Republic

9 - Her Excellency The Honourable Janet Bostwick, MP
Attorney General and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Bahamas

10 - Her Excellency Mrs. Cristina Munoz
Minister for Women's Affairs of Paraguay

11 - H.E> The Honourable Matthew Walter
Minister for Community Development and Women's Affairs of Dominica

12 - Her Excellency Ms. Bèla Hejná
Deputy Minister for Labour and Social Affairs of the Czech Republic

13 - Her Excellency Ms. Maria Serkedjieva
Deputy Minister of Justice of Bulgaria

14 - H.E. Mr. Enrique Candioti
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of Argentina

15 - H.E. Mr. Fawzi Bin Abdul Majee Shobokshi
Chairman of the Delegation of Saudi Arabia

16 - H.E. Mr. Li Hyong Chol
Chairman of the Delegation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

17 - H.E. Mr. Jacques Louis Boisson
Chairman of the Delegation of Monaco

18 - Mrs. Eka Ebralidze
Representative of Georgia

19 - Her Excellency Mrs. Teresa Efua Asangono
Minister for Women's Integration and Social Affairs of Equatorial Guinea


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Friday, 9 June 2000
Morning session

1 - Her Excellency Mrs. Makbule Ceco
Deputy Prime Minister of Albania

2 - Her Highness Princess Basma Bint Talal
Head of the Jordanian National Commission for Women of Jordan

3 - H.E. Mr. Djamel Ould Abbas
Minister for National Solidarity of Algeria

4 - Her Excellency Mrs. Aminata Tall
Minister for Family Affairs and National Solidarity of Senegal

5 - Her Excellency The Honourable Rashida Yoosuf
Minister for Women's Affairs and Social Security of Maldives

6 - Her Excellency Ms. Alba Tejada De Rolla
Minister for Youth, Women, Childwood and the Family of Panama

7 - Her Excellency Mrs. Mathabiso Lepono
Minister for Environment, Gender and Youth Affairs of Lesotho

8 - Her Excellency Mrs. Nonie Mathieu
Minister for the Status and Rights of Women of Haiti

9 - Her Excellency Mrs. Ramatou Baba-Moussa
Minister for Social Protection and the Family of Benin

10 - Her Excellency Mrs. Hawa Ahmed Youssouf
Vice-Minister, Office of the Prime Minister in Charge of Advancement of Women, Family and Social Affairs of Djibouti

11 - H.E. Mr. Ernest Petric
Chairman of the Delegation of Slovenia

12 - Ms. Alba Osores De Lanza
Special Envoy of the President of Uruguay

13 - Mrs. Luul Gebreab
President of the National Union of Eritrean Women. Eritrea

14 - Her Excellency Mrs. Joan Musa
Special Envoy, Representative of the Prime Minister of Belize

15 - Mrs. Salma Abduljabbar
Counsellor, General People's Congress of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

16 - H.E. Mr. Movses Abelian
Chairman of the Delegation of Armenia

Afternoon session

1 - Her Excellency The Honourable Indira Thacoor-Sidaya
Minister of Women, Family Welfare and Child Development of Mauritius

2 - Her Excellency Mrs. Nana Aicha Foumakoye
Minister of Social Development, Advancement of Women and Child Protection of Niger

3 - Her Excellency Ms. Khofifah Indar Parawansa
State Minister for Women's Emplowerment of Indonesia

4 - Her Excellency Mrs. Shirley Gbujama
Minister of Social Welfare,Gender and Children Affairs of Sierra Leone

5 - Her Excellency Mrs. Rachel Dea
Minister form Social Affairs, Advancement of the Family and Disabled Persons of Central African Republic

6 - Her Excellency Mrs. Luisa Maria Cuculiza
Minister for Advancement of Women and Human development of Peru

7 - Her Excellency Mrs. Julienne Ngo Som
Minister for Women's Affairs of Cameroon

8 - Her Excellency Mrs. Nezha Chekrouni
Secretary of State, Ministry of Social Development, Solidarity, Employement and Vocational Training of Morocco

9 - H.E. Mr. Alberto Paulino
Minister for Justice and Parliamentary Affairs and Deputy Minister, Office of the Prime Minister of Soa Tome and Principe

10 - Her Excellency Mrs. Fatimé Kimto
Minister for Social Action and Family of Chad

11 - Her Excellency Ms. Ana Elisa Osorio
Vice-Minister for Health of Venezuela

12 - Her Excellency Mrs. Isabelle Machik Ruth chome
Vise-Minister for Social and Family Affairs of Democratic Republic of the Congo

13 - Her Excellency Shaikla Hind Bint Sulman Al-Khalifa
Under-Secretary and Assistan of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of Bahrain

14 - Ms. Rashida Ali Al-Hamadani
Chairperson of the Women's National Committee of Yemen

15 - H.E. Mr. Dennie Wilson
Chairman of the Delegation of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

16 - Ms. Janick Bru
Director-General, Ministry of Social Affairs and Manpower Development of Seychelles

17 - Mrs. Roslyn Tor
Director of Women's Affairs of Vanuatu

18 - H.E. Mr. Ravan Farhadi
Chairman of the Delegation of Afghanistan

19 - Ms. Lidija Topi
Representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina

20 - Her Excellency Mrs. Mary Note
Chairperson of the Delegation of the Marshall Islands

21 - Mrs. Palanitina Toelupe
Assistan-Secretary of the Ministry of Women's Affairs of Samoa

22 - H.E. Mr. Vinci Neil Clodumar
Chairman of the Delegation of Nauru

Observers

23 - Mrs. Kathryn Hauwa Hoomkwap
Representative of the observer delegation of the Holy See

24 - Her Excellency Mrs. Patricia Schulz
Head of the Federal Office foe Equality between Women and Men of Switzerland

25 - H.E. The Honourable Ngamau Munokoa
Minister for Internal Affairs of the Cook Islands

26 - Her Excellency Mrs. Alimata Salambéré
International Organization of la Francophonie

27 - Mrs. Valencia Mogeghe
Head of Gender Affairs of the Commonwealth Secretariat

28 - Mr. Jacques Forster
Vice-President of the International Committee of the Red Cross

29 - Ms. Anna Diamantopolou
European Commissioner for Employment and Social Affairs of the European Community

30 - Mrs. Ólõf Ólafsdóttir
Secretary of the Steering Committee for Equality between Women and Men of the Council of Europe

31 - H.E. Mr. Mokhtar Lamani
Chairman of the observer delegation of the Organization of the Islamic Conference

32 - Mr. Robert Paivi
Chairman of the observer delegation of the Organization for Migration

33 - Mrs. Mary Reiner Barnes
Representative of the observer delegation of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta

34 - Mrs. Mariapia Garavaglia
Vice-President of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

35 - Mrs. Sally Shelton-Colby
Deputy Secretary-General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

36 - Ms. Helle Degn
President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organizarion for Security and Cooperation in Europe

37 - H.E. Mr. Hussein Hassouna
Chairman of the observeur delegation of the League of Arab States

38 - H.E. Mr. Doutoun Mahmat
Assistant Secretary-General, Representative of the Secretary-General of the Organization of African Unity

39 - Her Excellency Mrs.Akiko Domoto
Chairperson of the observer delegation of the International Union for the conservation of Nature and Natural Resources

40 - Mrs. Amabel Orraca-Ndiaye
Chief Cooperation Officer of the African Development Bank

41 - H.E. Mrs. Aida Gonzalez Martinez
Chairperson of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women

42 - Dr. Nafis Sadik
Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund

43 - Ms. Carol Bellamy
Executuve Director United Nations Children's Fund

44 - Mr. Mark Malloch Brown
Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme

45 - Ms. Noeleen Heyzer
Executive Director of the Unted Nations Development Fund for Women

Non Gouvernemental Organizations

46 - Ms. Gladys Mutukwa
Chairperson of Women in Law and Development in Africa

47 - Ms. Pam Rajput
Vice-President of Mahila Dakshata Samiti

48 - Ms. Francoise David
Institute for the Advancement of Women

49 - Ms. Virginia Vargas
Peruana "Flora Tristan"

 

Saturday, 10 June 2000
Morning session
Afternoon session


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