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PERMANENT COUNCIL OF THE OEA/Ser.G

ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES CE/AM-129/10 rev.2

1 April 2010

SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON MIGRATION ISSUES Original: Spanish

WORK AGENDA FOR THE FORUM ON:


“EXTRACONTINENTAL MIGRATION IN THE AMERICAS”

Date: Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Time: 11:00 a. m. a 5:00 p. m.

Place: Simón Bolívar Room

I.  Registration of Participants

10:00 – 11:00 Registration

II.  Welcome remarks

11:00 – 11:15

Ambassador Duly Brutus

Permanent Representative of Haiti to the Organization of American States (OAS), Chair of the Special Committee on Migration Issues (CEAM)

Ambassador Albert Ramdin

Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS)

III.  General overview of recent extra-continental migration in the Americas

11:15 – 11:30 Presentation by Araceli Azuara

Migration and Development Program (MiDE)

Department of Social Development and Employment of the OAS

11:30 – 11:45 Presentation by Anna Greene

Senior Regional Protection Officer - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

11:45 – 12:00 Presentation by Richard Scott

Regional Representative of the IOM for North America and the Caribbean

12:00 – 12:15 Dialogue with member states

IV.  Basic principles and possible programmatic responses

12:15 – 12:30 Presentation by Juan Carlos Murillo

Head of the Regional Legal Unit

UNHCR - Costa Rica

12:30 – 12:45 Presentation by Laurence Hart

Chief of Mission of the International Organization for Migration

(IOM) in Libya

12:45 – 13:00 Dialogue with member states

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch

V.  Experiences and lessons learned

14:30 – 14:45 The experience of Costa Rica

Mario Zamora

Director of Immigration and Foreign Status

14:45 – 15:00 Irregular Migration to Mexico from Africa and Asia. Trends and

conflicts

Ernesto Rodríguez Chávez

Director of the Center for Migration Studies, National Migration

Institute (INAMI)

15:00 – 15:15 The experience of Argentina

Luis Agusti

Director of Social and International Affairs and President of the Argentinean National Committee for Refugees

15:15 – 15:30 Dialogue with member states

15:30 – 15:45 The experience of Panamá

María Cristina González

National Director of the National Immigration Service

15:45 – 16:00 Pesentation by Ambassador Alfonso López[1]/

Assistant Secretary of Consular Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign

Affairs, Trade, and Integration of Ecuador

South American Conference on Migration (CSM)

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16:00 – 16:15 Presentation by Ambassador Izben Williams

Permanent Representative of St. Kitts and Nevis to the OAS

Representing CARICOM

16:15 – 16:45 Dialogue with member states

VI.  Conclusions and recommendations

16:45 – 17:15 Conclusions and recommendations to be presented by
representatives of the OAS member states

VII.  Closing remarks

[1] Confirmation pending about whether Ambassador López will participate or be represented.