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INTER-AMERICAN COMMITTEE AGAINST TERRORISM (CICTE)

SEVENTEENTH REGULAR SESSION OEA/Ser.L/X.2.17

April 6-7, 2017CICTE/doc.2/17

Washington, D.C, United States31 March 2017

Original: Spanish

DRAFT SCHEDULE

FOR THE SEVENTEENTH REGULAR SESSION OF CICTE

(Approved during the Third Preparatory Meeting held on March 27, 2017)

Thursday, April 6, 2017: Simon Bolivar Conference Room (MNB)

8:30 a.m. – 12:00 Registration of participants

10:00 – 10:15 a.m.OPENING CEREMONY FOR THE SEVENTEENTH REGULAR SESSION OF CICTE

Remarks by the Chair of the Inter-American Committee against Terrorism – His Excellency Ambassador Juan Aníbal Barría, Permanent Representative of Chile to the Organization of American States

Remarks by the Secretary for Multidimensional Security of the Organization of American States – Doctor Claudia Paz y Paz

10:15 – 11:15 a.m.FIRST PLENARY SESSION

  1. Adoption of the Draft Agenda and Draft Schedule of the Seventeenth Regular Session
  1. Election of officers:
  1. Chair of CICTE
  2. Vice Chair of CICTE
  3. Rapporteur for the Seventeenth Regular Session of CICTE
  1. Report of the Technical Secretariat of CICTE
  1. Directory of National Points of Contact
  2. Status of ratifications of the Inter-American Convention against Terrorism
  3. Summary of activities carried out by the Executive Secretariat of CICTE in 2016
  4. Presentation on the current situation of the Executive Secretariat of CICTE

11:15 – 11:30 a.m.Coffee break

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.SECOND PLENARY SESSION

  1. Follow-up on previous CICTE decisions
  1. Comments by member states on implementation of previous CICTE Declarations, resolutions and other documents (2006-2016)

12:30 – 2:00 p.m.Lunch break (Private dialogue during lunch)

2:00 – 2:30 p.m.Actions taken by international and regional organizations to implement UNSCR 1540

  • Presentation by Ahmet Uzumcu, Director General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
  • Presentation by Sergio Mujica, Deputy Secretary-General of the World Customs Organization (WCO)
  • Remarks by member states

2:30 – 3:45 p.m.THIRD PLENARY SESSION

Dialogue 1: Topic “Strengthening Financial Institutions and Designated Non-Financial Businesses and Professions (DNFBPs) and the principle of due diligence”

  • Presentation by Alejandra Quevedo, Deputy Executive Secretary,

Latin America Financial Action Task Force (GAFILAT) (To be confirmed)

  • Presentation by Roberto de Michele, Principal Specialist,

Modernization of the State, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) (To be confirmed)

  • Presentation by Esteban Fullin, AML/CFT Regional Advisor for Latin America and the Caribbean, International Monetary Fund (To be confirmed)
  • Presentation by Sandro García-Rojas Castillo,Vice Chairman for Prevention, National Banking and Securities Commission of Mexico
  • Presentation by Carlamara Sánchez Córdoba, Manager, Office of Supervision and Regulation of Non-Financial Subjects, Ministry of Economy and Finance of Panama
  • Remarks by member states

3:45 – 4:00 p.m.Coffee break

4:00 – 5:30 p.m.FOURTH PLENARY SESSION

Dialogue 2: Topic “Preventing Terrorism Financing”

  • Presentation by Alexis Bethancourt, Minister of Public Securityof Panama
  • Presentation by Jean-Paul Laborde, Assistant Secretary General and Executive Director] United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) (To be confirmed)
  • Presentation by Jamal El-Hindi, Deputy Director, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, US Department of the Treasury
  • Remarks by member states

5:30 – 7:00 p.m.Cocktail offered by the Government of Panama (Patio Azteca)

Friday, April 7, 2017: Simon Bolivar Conference Room (MNB)

9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.FIFTH PLENARY SESSION

Dialogue 3: Topic “Strengthening Financial Intelligence Units and their active role in international cooperation in the area of information sharing”

  • Presentation by Humberto Brid, Director of the Financial Analysis Unit and 2017 Vice Chair of the Latin America Financial Action Task Force (GAFILAT)
  • Presentation by Sergio Espinosa Chiroque, Director General,Financial Intelligence Unit of Peru (To be confirmed)
  • Presentation by Juan Manuel Vega-Serrano, 2016-2017 Chair, International Financial Action Task Force (IFATF) (To be confirmed)
  • Presentation by Graeme McClean, Central Authority, Ministry of the Attorney General, Trinidad and Tobago
  • Remarks by member states

11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.Coffee break

11:15 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.SIXTH PLENARY SESSION

  1. Consideration and adoption of the CICTE Work Plan for 2017
  1. Establishment of a Working Group on Cooperation and Confidence-Building Measures in Cyberspace
  1. Reflection and proposals to improve the work of CICTE
  1. Venue and dates for the Eighteenth Regular Session and for its preparatory meetings
  1. Consideration and approval of language to be considered for the omnibus resolution of the Committee on Hemispheric Security
  1. Consideration and adoption of the Declaration “Strengthening National Financial Systems through International Cooperation and Information Sharing as a Means to Prevent Terrorism and the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction”

12:45- 1:00 p.m.CLOSING CEREMONY

  • Remarks by the Chair of CICTE

1:00 p.m.Closing of the Seventeenth Regular Session of CICTE