/ EURO-MEDITERRANEAN PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY /

Committee on Improving Quality of Life, Exchanges between Civil Societies and Culture

Rome,26th February 2007 (Palazzo Montecitorio,Sala della Regina)

Draft Programme

9,30 – 9:45 a.m. / Opening of proceedings.
Adoption of the agenda and of the minutes of the last meeting.
Welcome addresses by:
  • Carlo Leoni, Vice President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies
  • Ugo Intini, Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs

9,45 -11,30 a.m. / Contents and implementation of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, adopted in Paris on 20th October 2005
The role of culture and new technologies as factors of development and mutual knowledge: exchange of views on the establishment of a Euro-MediterraneanUniversity
Introductory speeches by:
  • Ms Marie-Paule Roudil, Head of the UNESCO Regional Office for Culture in Venice
  • Mr Franco Rizzi, General Director of the Mediterranean Universities Union - UNIMED
  • Mr Mounir Bouchenaki, General Director of the ICCROM (International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property)
  • Mr Roberto Carpano, Director of the RMSU of the Euromed Heritage Program
Debate
11:30 – 11:45 a.m. / Coffee break
11:45-1:30p.m. / Migration flows in the Mediterranean and Africa: common initiatives and role of Parliaments
Introductory speeches by:
  • Ms NouzhaChekrouni,Vice Minister Delegate to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Morocco, in Charge of Moroccans Resident Abroad;
  • Mr Paolo Ferrero, Italian Minister of Social Solidarity
Debate
1:30-3:00p.m. / Lancheon at the Chamber of Deputies (Sala Gialla and Sala del Cavaliere)
3:00-4:45 p.m. / The environmental protection of the Mediterranean Sea: implementation, timetable and future prospects of the agreement known as Horizon 2020, reached in Cairo on 20th November 2006 by the Ministers of the Environment
Introductory speech by:
Mr Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio, Italian Minister of the Environment
Debate
4,4 5-5:00 p.m. / Coffee break
5:00-6:00 p.m. / The Euro-Med Youth Parliament: proposals and prospects
Proposals for the adoption of a logo of the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly
Debate
6:00-6:15 p.m. / Any other business. End of proceedings.
8:00 p.m. / Dinner at the Ristorante di Palazzo Marini, Via del Pozzetto
10:30 p.m. (approx.) / Return to the hotels