Liberal International, 1 Whitehall Place, London SW1A 2HD

60th LI Congress
28-31 October 2015, Mexico City, DF, Mexico
Internal Programme (Draft as of 23 October 2015 - noon)

Plenary programme
Events in parallel
Departure time

Wednesday 28 October

All day Delegates arriving

16.00 Meeting NA Parliamentary Group Congress
Invitation only departure from the Royal Pedregal at 14.00
Evening Networking Dinner
Self-organised

Thursday 29 October

Venue:
Hotel Royal Pedregal
Perifrico Sur 4363, Tlalpan, Jardines de la Montaa
14210 Ciudad de Mxico, D.F., Mexico

08.30 10.00 Registration of delegates Foyer Level 3

08.30 10.00 Joint Bureau Meeting LI and RELIAL Sala Citlali
Invitation only
10.00 12.00 LI Bureau Meeting Sala Citlali
Invitation only
09:00 09:45 INLW Board Meeting Salon
(INLW Board members only) Obsidiana 5

09.45 11.00 INLW Members General Meeting

(members only)

11.00 12.00 Violence against women is a worldwide disgrace: Will

globalising the Istanbul Convention be the remedy?
Public panel discussion organised by INLW

Chair: Margaret de Vos van Steenwijk, President of INLW

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Panellists:
Maysing Yang, BA, MA, Vice President of INLW, VP of Taiwan
Foundation for Democracy, DPP, Taiwan
Khadija El Morabit, Member of LI HRC, MP, Morocco
Leticia Gutirrez Corona, National Women Coordinator, NA,
Mexico
10.00 11.30 The Secular State: an unfulfilled demand Salon
Panel discussion organised by Partido Liberal de Chile Obsidiana 4

Opening Remarks:
Hans van Baalen MEP, LI President of Honour, Netherlands

Moderator: Vlado Mirosevic MP, PLC, Chile

Mitja Horvat MP, SMC, Slovenia

Judith Pallares MP, PLA, Andorra
12.00 13.00 Interactive Report of LI SG Salon
Obsidiana 4
13.00 14.30 Registration of delegates and Collection of Votes Foyer Level 3
13.00 14.00 Lunch
Self-organised
14.00 16.45 LI EC Administrative Session, with: Salon
- From 14.10: Presentation of new applicant members Obsidiana 4 & 5
- From 15.50: Administrative Issues

17.00 Bus Departure to Gala Dinner

19.00 Gala Dinner Convento
Offered by Caminos de la Libertad San Hipolito

Annual Award of the Freedom Essay of Caminos de la

Libertad

Dress code: business attire

Friday 30 October

Venue:
Hotel Royal Pedregal
Perifrico Sur 4363, Tlalpan, Jardines de la Montaa
14210 Ciudad de Mxico, D.F., Mexico

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Conference Site, Level 3

07.30 10.00 Registration of delegates Foyer

Level 3
08.00 09.00 'Introduction to Congress' Salon Obsidiana
Session for new participants

Presented by:
Iain Gill, LibDems, UK
Aly Toure, RDR, Cote dIvoire
08.00 09.00 Coordination Session for Working Group Chairs Sala Citlali
Invitation only
09.15 10.30 Congress Opening Salon Obsidiana

Welcome remarks:
Dr Juli Minoves, LI President

Opening Address by:

Ricardo Lpez-Murphy, President of RELIAL, Argentina
Luis Castro Obregon, President of Nueva Alianza, Mexico
Prof. Karl-Heinz Paqu, FNF Deputy Chairman, Germany
11.00 13.00 Panel Discussion on Populism Salon Obsidiana
Joint LI-RELIAL session

Populism vs Constitutionalism
Key-note by Helen Zille, LI Deputy President, Premier of
Western Cape, South Africa

Moderator:
Axel Kaiser, Director of Foundacion Para el Progreso, Chile

Speakers:
Hans van Baalen MEP, LI President of Honour, Netherlands
Agustn Etchebarne, Chairman, Fundacin Libertad y
Progreso, Argentina
Roco Guijarro, CEDICE Executive Director, Venezuela
Miguel Sales, President, Union Liberal Cubana, Cuba
13.00 14.30 Lunch Salon Amatista
Discussion on Free Trade

Dita Charanzova MEP, ANO, Czech Republic

Rafael Rincn, Director of Innovation and Public Relations,
Fundacin para el Progreso, Chile
14.30 17.00 World Caf on Migration Salon Obsidiana

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Chair: Baroness Sal Brinton, LibDem, UK

Table hosts:
Jos Inacio Faria MEP, MPT, Portugal
Khodr Habib MP, FM, Lebanon
Stevens Mokgalapa MP, DA, South Africa
Eduardo Montealegre MP, PLI, Nicaragua
Johanna Jnsson MP, Centerpartiet, Sweden

Followed by Congress Debate

14.30 17.00 Women Participation in Politics Obsidiana 4
Organised by NA Movimiento Nacional de Mujeres

Moderator: Leticia Gutirez Corona

Panellists:
Margaret de Vos Van Steenwijk, Netherlands. INLW.
President
Joaquima Alemany Roca, Spain. INLW. MCP
Soralla Bauelos, Mexico, Nueva Alianza. Vicecoordinator of
NA Parlamentarian Group
Patricia Olamendi, Nueva Alianza. Mexico.
17.00 18.30 Coordinating the Global Liberal Agenda 2016 Sala Citlali
ALN-CALD-RELIAL-LI-FNF Meeting
Invitation only
17.30 19.00 World Today Resolution and Urgency Resolutions Salon Obsidiana
Working Group

Chair: Robert Woodthorpe Browne

17.30 19.00 Resolutions on Migration and Asylum Salon
Working Group Obsidiana 4

Chair: Mats Lfstrm MP

17.30 19.00 Other Resolutions Salon
Working Group Obsidiana 5

Chair: Manfred Eisenbach

19.00 19.30 LI Bureau Meeting Sala Citlali
Invitation only
19.20 Bus Departure to Dinner
20.00 Dinner Restaurant
Hosted by Nueva Alianza San Fernando

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Welcome remarks by:

Luis Castro Obregon, President of Nueva Alianza, Mexico

Speech by Howard Dean, NDI, USA

Saturday 31 October

07.30 09.30 Registration of delegates

and Collection of Congress Votes
08.00 09.00 US Presidential Elections of 2016 Salon Obsidiana

Breakfast discussion with:

Howard Dean, former DNC Chairman, NDI Governing Board,
USA

Chair: Dr Juli Minoves, LI President

09.00 10.30 Congress Session Salon Obsidiana
Vision of Liberalism by World Liberal Leaders

Chair: Kerstin Lundgren MP, Centerpartiet, Sweden

Keynote speeches by:

Blas Llano, Immediate Past Congress President, PLRA,
Paraguay
Olivier Kamitatu, President of ALN, ARC, DR Congo
James Huang, Former Foreign Minister, DPP, Taiwan
Mohand Laenser, Leader of MP, Morocco
Sir Graham Watson, President of ALDE Party, United
Kingdom
10.30 12.00 Will a Woman UN SG Influence Gender Equality? Salon
Roundtable discussion co-organised by LI and INLW Obsidiana 6

Welcome Remarks by:

Margaret de Vos van Steenwijk, INLW President,
Netherlands

70 Years of History, One Woman President

Key-note speech by Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck, past LI
President, Open-VLD, Belgium

Chair: Kasit Piromya , LI Vice President, DP, Thailand

Panellists:
Hakima El Hait, Minister for the Environment, MP, Morocco

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Patricia Olamendi MP, Nueva Alianza, Mexico

11.00 13.00 'Human Rights in Developing Democracies' Salon
Organised by the Africa Liberal Network and the LibDems Obsidiana 4
(UK)

Chair: Baroness Sal Brinton, President, LibDems, UK

Panellists:
Baroness Kishwer Falkner, LI Vice-President, UK
Olivier Kamitatu, President of ALN, DR Congo
Rosemary Odinga, ODM, Kenya
Michael Cardo, MP, DA, South Africa
11.00 13.00 'Protecting Civil Liberties in Latin America' Salon
Organised by Un Estado de Derecho & SILC Obsidiana 5

Panellists:
Ricardo Lopez-Murphy, President, RELIAL, Argentina
Eduardo Montealegre, President, PLI, Nicaragua
Tomas Arias Castillo, VENTE, Venezuela
Carlos Julio Romero Pacheco, VENTE, Venezuela
11.00 13.00 'International Drugs Trade' Salon Obsidiana
Panel discussion in cooperation with TV Azteca

Chair: Lisa Snchez, United Mexico Against Crime

Helen Zille, LI Deputy President, Premier Western Cape,

South Africa
Vlado Mirosevic MP, President, PLC, Chile (tbc)
13.00 14.30 How did German Unification Change the World? Salon Amatista
Lunch discussion, organised by FNF

Key-note speech by
Prof. Karl-Heinz Paqu, Deputy Chairman of FNF, Germany
13.00 14.30 Networking Lunch for MPs and MEPs Salon
ALDELAT Inaugural Session 2015 Obsidiana 6
Organised by ALDE, invitation only
14.30 16.00 Congress Administrative Session Salon Obsidiana
- Presentation and Election of the Bureau
- Presentation and Vote on Membership Applications

14.30 17.00 Youth Participation in Politics Obsidiana 4

Debate hosted by NA Jovenes

Yessenia lvarez (tbc), Peru

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Silvia Mercado (tbc), RELIAL, Bolivia

Yatzel Roman (tbc), Domenican Republic
Pedro Deir (tbc), MBL, Brazil
NA Pax (tbc), Nueva Alianza, Mexico
16.00 17.30 Congress Administrative Session Salon Obsidiana
- Congress Resolutions

17.30 18.00 Liberal International ahead its 70th Anniversary Salon Obsidiana
Speech by:
Dr. Juli Minoves-Triquell, LI President, Andorra

Closing of the Congress

18.00 Bus Departure to Cocktail Reception
19.30 Cocktail Reception Museo de Arte
Hosted by Caminos de la Libertad Popular

Sunday 01 November

Morning Possible fringe events (Self- organised)

All day Departure of delegates