Intergovernmental Preparatory Committee
General Assembly resolution 78/231 established an intergovernmental Preparatory Committee to make the organizational, procedural and substantive preparations for the Conference, with a Bureau consisting of three members from each regional group.
The Committee adopted the annotated provisional agenda of its work and a draft decision on further modalities of the Conference during the organizational session.
Subsequent sessions of the Preparatory Committee will be held as follows:
- First session: Addis Ababa from 22 to 26 July 2024
- Second session: New York from 3-6 December 2024
- Third session: New York from 10-14 February 2025
- Fourth session: New York from 30 April - 1 May 2025
A one-day intersessional Multistakeholder Hearing was convened in New York on 28 October 2024, as part of the preparatory process for the Conference.
At its organizational session, the Preparatory Committee elected H.E. Mr. Zéphyrin Maniratanga, Permanent Representative of Burundi to the UN and H.E. Ms. Ana Paula Zacarias, Permanent Representative of Portugal to the UN, as the Co-Chairs of the Committee.
The Vice-Chairs of the Preparatory Committee elected from each regional group were:
• African States: South Africa and Zambia.
• Asia-Pacific States: China, Islamic Republic of Iran, Nepal and Pakistan serve as a Vice-Chairs on a rotational basis.
• Eastern European States: Poland and the Russian Federation.
• Latin American and Caribbean States: Brazil, Colombia and Mexico.
• Western European and other States: Canada and Norway.
At its first session, the Preparatory Committee elected H.E. Mr. Rui Vinhas, Permanent Representative of Portugal to the UN, as Co-Chair of the Committee
On 19 June 2024, the Co-Chairs of the FfD4 Preparatory Committee announced that Mexico, Nepal, Norway and Zambia would co-facilitate the negotiations of the FfD4 outcome document.