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Liberal International
190th Executive Committee
Beirut, 12 14 April 2013
hosted by the Future Movement

PUBLIC PROGRAMME

Liberalism and traditional values:

Defining a winning liberal agenda in todays changed world
Comprehensive Programme of Events

Friday 12 April 2012

Time Activity Venue
Venue:

Hotel Phoenicia
Rue Fakhreddine
Beirut

09:30 12:00 BUREAU MEETING Carthage

By invitation only

14.00 17.00 Building Better Partnerships Share, Sync, Strategize Byblos

Hosted by the LibDems (United Kingdom)

By invitation

20:30 22:30 Welcome cocktail reception Sidon

Including the pre-premiere screening of the internationally awarded

documentary The No-Gos
Presented by co-producer Bilal Mekkaui

Welcome by:
Dr Basem Shabb MP, Parliamentary Commission on Defence, Future
Movement, Lebanon
Saed Karajah, President of the Arab Alliance for Freedom and Democracy
Hans van Baalen MEP, LI President

Saturday 13 April 2012

Time Activity Venue
Venue:

Hotel Phoenicia
Rue Fakhreddine
Beirut
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08:00 08:45 LI HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE Berytus

Administrative Session

Chair:
Abir Al-Sahlani MP, LI VP and Chair of the LI HRC

08:30 12:00 Registration Desk open

09:30 10:00 Opening of the Conference Berytus

Speeches by:
Hans van Baalen MEP, LI President
Ahmed Hariri, Secretary-General of the Future Movement

10:00 12:00 Panel 1: Berytus

LI HRC PANEL:
How Should Liberals Deal with the Situation in Syria? Is Syria the end
to R2P?

Chair:
Hans van Baalen MEP, LI President

Speakers:
Hassan Mneimneh, former Minister of Education, Future Movement,
Lebanon
John, Lord Alderdice, first President of the Northern Ireland Assembly after
the Good Friday Agreement
Kasit Piromya MP, former Foreign Minister of Thailand

12:00 12:30 Presentation: Berytus

Lebanons economy: potential for growth and development

Chair:
Dr. Juli Minoves Triquell, LI Deputy President

Speaker:
Mohamad Choucair, Chairman of Chamber of Commerce Industry and
Agriculture, Lebanon

Response:
Praxoula Antoniadou-Kyriacou, former Minister for the Economy, United
Democrats, Cyprus

12:30 14:00 Luncheon Mosaic

14:00 16:00 Panel 2: Berytus

Liberalism and traditional values: how to answer populist
tendencies

Chair:
Ramona Manescu MEP, Vice-President of ALDE Party, Europe

Speakers:
Dr Ahmed Said, leader of Free Egyptians Party, Egypt

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Raya El Hassan, former Finance Minister, Future Movement, Lebanon

Roger Albinyana, Foreign Secretary in the Generalitat, Catalonia
Rim Mahjoub, Member of the Tunisian Constituent Assembly, Joumhouri,
Tunisia

14:00 16:00 WORKSHOP OF IFLRY Carthage

Supported by International Democratic Initiative, VVD and D66
(Netherlands)

Session title: Effective Democratic Party Organisation, Raising

the Voice of Youth

Chair:
Pieter Van de Stadt, International Secretary, VVD, Netherlands
Shehab Wagih, Spokesperson of the Free Egyptians Party, Egypt

Marietje Schaake MEP, European Parliament Rapporteur on Digital

Freedoms, ALDE/D66, Europe (Netherlands)
Dr Khalil Gebara, Head of Good Governance Unit, Office of former PM Saad
Hariri, Lebanon
Richard Diamond, former President of the Young Liberals of Canada, Canada
Wissam Shibli, President of Future Youth, Lebanon

16:00 16:30 Conference Closing Berytus

Antoine Andraous MP, Vice-President of the Future Movement, Lebanon

Hans van Baalen MEP, LI President

16:30 19:30 LI EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING Berytus

Delegates only
21:00 22:30 Gala dinner

Sunday 14 April 2012

Time Activity Venue

10:00 12:00 RALF DAHRENDORF ROUNDTABLE Byblos

Organised by the European Liberal Forum,
Supported by the International Network of Liberal Women

Session title:
All on Board- Promoting Women in Private Enterprise

Hotel Phoenicia
Beirut, Lebanon

Chair:
Susanne Hartig, Secretary-General of ELF

Speakers:
Felicita Medved, President of the ELF
Margaret de Vos van Steenwijk, President of the INLW
Khadija El-Morabit, Mouvement Populaire, Morocco

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Olle Schmidt MEP, ALDE/Folkpartiet, Europe (Sweden)

10:00 12:00 Panel discussion Carthage

Organised by the ALDE Party

Session title: A new dynamic? Israel-Palestine relations after UN GA

recognition, Knesset elections and EU labeling of goods from occupied
areas

Moderator:
Lousewies van der Laan, Vice-President of the ALDE Party, Europe

Laurens-Jan Brinkhorst, Dutch former Deputy Prime Minister, D66

Dr Hans-Georg Fleck, Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Liberty, Turkey

09:00 12:00 AAFD and ASYF Administrative Session

12:00 14:00 Roundtable discussion Byblos

Organised by the International Network of Liberal Women

Session title: Womens voices from Lebanon and the MENA Region:
Actual Situation and Challenges that Women Face and Steps to be
Taken

Chair:
Margaret de Vos van Steenwijk, President of the INLW

Khadija Elmorabit, Mouvement Populaire, Morocco

Rima Khalife, Head of Womens Committee, National Liberal Party, Lebanon
Houda Cherif, Member of the Political Bureau, Al Joumhouri, Tunisia
Lousewies van der Laan, Vice-President of the ALDE Party, Europe

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