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Special Meeting of the Permanent Council
Date: May 2, 2007 - 10.00 AM
Place: Headquarters Washington DC
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Aproval of the draft order of business. Remarks by Ambassador Jorge Valero, Chair of the Permanent Council and Permanent Representative of Venezuela to the OAS. Opening: Ambassador Albert Ramdin, OAS Assistant Secretary General. Introduction to the topic: Ambassador Lisa Shoman, Permanent Representative of Belize to the OAS: What is the role of governments in developing and integral approach to managing migration? (25')
Presentation: Ambassador Marta Altolaguirre, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala: The experience of Guatemala and migratory trends in the region. (15')
Presentation: Berta Fernández, Program Officer, International Organization for Migration (IOM), Regional Office for North America and the Caribbean, Washington, DC: Summary of outcomes from recent meetings: UN High-Level Dialogue on Migration and Development. Ibero-American Meeting on Migration and Development, organized by the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB). IOM's current initiatives in the Americas. (17')
Presentation: Francisco Pilotti, Director, Department of Social Development and Employment: How can migration be better integrated into development policy and planning? How can government capitalize on the positive approaches to dealing with regional migration? (8')
Presentation: Carmen Marina Gutiérrez, Director, Summits Secretariat. How could appropriate civil society participation be accommodated in treatment of the issues at the (sub)regional level? (12')
Presentation: Carol Fuller, Secretary, Secretariat of the Inter-American Committee against Terrorism (CICTE). Analyzing the impact of migration from a security perspective. (12')
Presentation: Santiago Canton, Executive Secretary, Inter-American Comission on Human Rights (IACHR). Promotion and protection of the human rights of migrants, including migrant workers and their families.  (15')
Summary of results from the Special Session on Migrant populations and migrations flows in the Americas by Ambassador Osmar Chohfi, Permanent Representative of Brazil to the OAS and Chair of the Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs (CAJP). (11')
Interventions by member states. (1h 25')
Closing remarks: José Miguel Insulza, OAS Secretary General and Ambassador Jorge Valero, Chair of the Permanent Council and Permanent Representative of Venezuela to the OAS. (15')