COUNCIL. 108th Session. to be held at the Palais des Nations, Geneva in Conference Room XVII Tuesday, 28 November, to Friday, 1 December 2017*

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1 Original: English 15 November 2017 COUNCIL 108th Session to be held at the Palais des Nations, Geneva in Conference Room XVII Tuesday, 28 November, to Friday, 1 December 2017* PROVISIONAL AGENDA Tuesday, 28 November Item 1: Opening of the session and credentials of representatives and observers Item 2: Item 3: Item 4: Item 5: Item 6: (a) (b) Report of the Chairperson of the Council Election of officers Adoption of the agenda Status report on outstanding contributions to the Administrative Part of the Budget and Member State voting rights Admission of new Members and observers Applications for membership in the Organization Adoption of draft resolutions on admission of new Members (i) (ii) Republic of Cuba Cook Islands Application for representation by an observer State Adoption of draft resolution on admission of a new observer State State of Kuwait * Participants are informed that a video recording will be made of the Council proceedings.

2 Page 2 Tuesday, 28 November 2017 (continued) Item 6: (c) Admission of new Members and observers (continued) Applications for representation by observers Adoption of draft resolutions on admission of new observers (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v) (vi) (vii) Latin American and Caribbean Parliament (Parlatino) AMEL Association International (Lebanese Association for Popular Action) United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UNESCWA) Item 7: Global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration Keynote address: H.E. Mr Miroslav Lajčák, President of the United Nations General Assembly Ms Louise Arbour, United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General for International Migration Mr William Lacy Swing, Director General, IOM Item 8: Report of the Director General Item 9: General debate Reception hosted by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (Restaurant des Délégués)

3 Page 3 Wednesday, 29 November Item 10: Keynote address Item 9: General debate (continued) H.E. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana (delivered by Mr Ignatius Baffour Awuah, Minister for Employment and Labour Relations, Ghana) Item 11: Panel discussion: Collaboration through innovative partnerships on promoting migrant integration and social cohesion Moderator: Abdelkrim Benoutiq, Deputy Minister to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, in charge of Moroccans living abroad and migration affairs, Morocco Thomas Fabian, Deputy Mayor and Alderman for youth, social issues, health and education, Leipzig, Germany Ola Henrikson, Director General of the Division of Migration and Asylum Policy, Ministry of Justice, Sweden Doug Saunders, International affairs columnist, The Globe and Mail Laura Thompson, Deputy Director General, IOM Side event: Innovation and ideas on international cooperation in support of migration management

4 Page 4 Wednesday, 29 November 2017 (continued) Item 12: Draft report on the 107th Session of the Council Adoption of draft resolution C/108/L/11 on the report on the 107th Session of the Council Item 13: Report on matters discussed at the Twentieth and Twenty-first Sessions of the Standing Committee on Programmes and Finance (a) Summary update on the Programme and Budget for 2017 (b) Programme and Budget for 2018 Adoption of draft resolution C/108/L/12 on the Programme and Budget for 2018 (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) Report on the privileges and immunities granted to the Organization by States Report on the Working Group on IOM UN Relations and Related Issues Amendments to the Staff Regulations Adoption of draft resolution C/108/L/13 on amendments to the Staff Regulations Other items discussed at the Twentieth and Twenty-first Sessions of the Standing Committee on Programmes and Finance Reports on the Twentieth and Twenty-first Sessions of the Standing Committee on Programmes and Finance Adoption of draft resolution C/108/L/14 on the reports on the Twentieth Session and the Twenty-first Session of the Standing Committee on Programmes and Finance Item 9: General debate (continued)

5 Page 5 Thursday, 30 November Item 9: General debate (continued) Item 14: Panel discussion: World Migration Report 2018: making sense of migration and mobility in an increasingly interconnected world Moderator: David Apollo Kazungu, Commissioner Refugees and Chairperson of the National Coordination Mechanism on Migration, Office of the Prime Minister, Uganda Mario Giro, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Italy Martin Ruhs, Associate Professor of Political Economy, Oxford University, United Kingdom William Lacy Swing, Director General, IOM Side event: Mutual contributions and benefits: Integration of migrants in host societies Item 15: Panel discussion: Opportunities to address migration and climate change in the global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration Moderator: Nicolas Hulot, Minister for the Ecological and Inclusive Transition, France Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Erik Solheim, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (video message) Keiko Kiyama, Co-President of Japan Emergency NGO (JEN), Vice-Chairperson of the Board of Directors, Japan Platform, Japan William Lacy Swing, Director General, IOM Item 9: General debate (continued)

6 Page 6 Friday, 1 December Item 16 Keynote address H.E. Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, President of Djibouti Item 9: General debate (continued) Item 17: Migrants voices Item 9: General debate (continued) Augustine Blessing Eguvwese, returnee from Niger to Nigeria, Managing Director of Amebo Radio Limited, Abuja, Nigeria Fabiola Das Neves Sfalcini, returnee from Switzerland to Brazil, Founder of CHANCE language school, Belo Horizonte, Brazil Item 18: Other business Item 19: Date and place of the next sessions Adoption of draft resolution C/108/L/15 on convening the next regular session Adoption of draft resolution C/108/L/16 on convening a special session of the Council