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Programme de la FFD4
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Programme for 30th juin, 2025
FFD4 Second Plenary Meeting
- General debate: Statements by Heads of State or Government, ministers and heads of delegation
FFD4 Opening Segment and First Plenary Meeting
- Opening of the Conference
- Election of the President
- Opening statements by:
- Pedro Sánchez, President of the Conference and the Government of Spain
- António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations
- Philemon Yang, President of the United Nations General Assembly
- Bob Rae, President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council
- Ajay Banga, President of the World Bank Group
- Nigel Clarke, Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund
- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General of the World Trade Organization
- Li Junhua, Secretary-General of the Conference
- Adoption of the rules of procedure
- Adoption of the agenda
- Election of officers other than the President
- Organization of work and other organizational matters
- Credentials of representatives to the Conference: appointment of the members of the Credentials Committee
- Adoption of the Outcome Document (TBC)
- General debate. Click here for the live list of speakers >>
- Statements by Heads of State or Government, ministers and heads of delegation
Programme for 1st juillet, 2025
FFD4 Third Plenary Meeting
- General debate: Statements by Heads of State or Government, ministers and heads of delegation
FFD4 Fourth Plenary Meeting
- General debate: Statements by Heads of State or Government, ministers and heads of delegation
Programme for 2nd juillet, 2025
FFD4 Fifth Plenary Meeting
- General debate: Statements by Heads of State or Government, ministers and heads of delegation
FFD4 Sixth Plenary Meeting
- General debate: Statements by Heads of State or Government, ministers and heads of delegation
FFD4 Multi-stakeholder round table 4: “Upholding the multilateral trading system, and harnessing the potential of science, technology and innovation”
Co-Chairs:
- H.E. Ms. Nadia Fettah, Minister of Economy and Finance, Morocco
- H.E. Ms. Melita Gabrič, Deputy Minister for Foreign and European Affairs and Minister for Development, Slovenia
Special address by Head of State and Government:
- H.E. Mr. Pedro Sánchez, President of the Government, Spain
Moderator: Mr. Jorge Moreira da Silva, Executive Director, UNOPS
Panelists:
- H.E. Mr. Shane Reti, Minister for Science and Innovation, Minister for Pacific Peoples, Minister for Statistics and Universities, New Zealand
- H.E. Mr. Karamoko Jean-Marie Traore, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Regional Cooperation and Burkinabè Abroad, Burkina Faso
- H.E. Mr. Philip Gough, Secretary of Economic and Financial Affairs, Brazil
- H.E. Mr. Amb. Enrique Javier Ochoa Martinez, Under Secretary for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mexico
Discussants:
- Customs Cooperation Council
- CSO representative
Background
International trade is an engine for inclusive growth and poverty eradication and contributes to the promotion of sustainable development. Yet, the multilateral trading system is increasingly under threat. Trade restrictions, including tariffs inconsistent with WTO rules, principles and commitments, are on the rise globally amidst rising trade tensions and stalling multilateral negotiations. At the same time many developing countries with limited productive capacities and trade infrastructure continue to experience challenges in integrating into regional and global value chains and generating higher-value addition in commodities and critical minerals.
Over the last decades, the world has seen unprecedented progress in science, technology and innovation (STI). While technology holds promises in advancing sustainable development and resilience, enhancing productivity, creating new industries and business models and contributing to poverty eradication, it can also have unintended economic, environmental and social impacts. Moreover, developing countries’ ability to leverage its full potential remains constrained. Deepening gaps in innovation and access to technology and inadequate access to digital infrastructure, data and digital public goods have resulted in persistent digital divides between and within countries.
The Compromiso de Sevilla outlines commitments to uphold the multilateral trading system and harnessing the potential of STI. On international trade, it reaffirms the principles of the multilateral trading system and lays out specific actions to improve capacities to trade and increase local value addition for commodities and critical minerals, with a focus on the furthest behind. The Sevilla outcome also puts forward measures at the national and international levels to close digital divides and leverage scientific and technological advances.
Guiding Questions
- What actions and commitments related to trade and STI in the Sevilla outcome are of highest priority from your perspective, and how will you advance their implementation?
- How do you plan to build on the outcome document in Sevilla to support developing countries’ integration in regional and global value chains and local value addition of critical minerals and commodities?
- How can commitments in the Sevilla outcome document help closing digital divides within and between countries?
FFD4 Multi-stakeholder round table 5: “Realizing a development-oriented sovereign debt architecture”
Co-Chairs:
- H.E. Mr. Pedro Sánchez, President of the Government, Spain
- H.E. Mr. Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye, President of Senegal
Special address by Head of State and Government:
- H.E. Mr. Gaston Browne, Prime Minister, Antigua and Barbuda
Keynote:
- Professor Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize Laureate
Moderator:
- Mr. Mahmoud Mohieldin, Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Panelists:
- H.E. Mr. Louis Paul Motaze, Minister of Finance, Cameroon
- H.E. Mrs. Mickket Slama Khaldi, Minister of Finance of the Republic of Tunisia
- H.E Ahmed Shide, Minister of Finance, Ethiopia (tbc)
- Mr. Axel van Trotsenburg, Senior Managing Director, World Bank Group
Discussants:
- Mr. Rémy Rioux, AFD CEO and chairman of the Finance in Common Coalition
- Mr. Jay Collins, Vice Chairman, Citigroup
Background
Amid successive crises and shocks, sovereign debt challenges have become one of the greatest obstacles to realizing sustainable development. Many developing countries face high debt service burdens and borrowing costs, which severely constrain their fiscal space and ability to address poverty and inequality and invest in sustainable development. Despite progress in reforming the sovereign debt architecture, restructurings are often still inadequate, late and lengthy. A development-oriented debt architecture, based on sound and transparent analysis of sovereign debt sustainability, is urgently needed to address these debt challenges.
The debt chapter of the Sevilla outcome document outlines four areas of actions to address these challenges: i) actions to strengthen debt management and crises prevention, debt transparency, and responsible borrowing and lending; ii) actions to lower borrowing costs and enhance fiscal space for investment in sustainable development in developing countries; iii) actions to achieve efficient, fair, predictable, coordinated, timely, and orderly restructurings; and iv) actions to promote debt sustainability and credit assessments that are more accurate, objective and long-term oriented.
Guiding Questions
1. What are your plans for taking forward the actions in the Sevilla outcome to achieve a development-oriented sovereign debt architecture?
2. How do you intend to progress in improving debt restructuring processes and outcomes in the near and long term for countries with unsustainable debt burdens?
3. How will you work towards advancing the Sevilla outcome to prevent future debt crises and provide urgent, timely and effective support to countries when they are faced with liquidity pressures?
Programme for 3rd juillet, 2025
FFD4 Seventh Plenary Meeting
- General debate: Statements by Heads of State or Government, ministers and heads of delegation
FFD4 Eighth Plenary Meeting and Closing of the Conference
- General debate
- Credentials of representatives to the Conference: report of the Credentials Committee
- Multi-stakeholder round tables: reports by the Co-Chairs Adoption of the outcome document of the Conference
- Adoption of the report of the Conference
- Closure of the Conference