China to Advance Political Infrastructure According to Social Realities: Vice FM
China, with a rich political and cultural heritage over the millennia, will “advance its own political infrastructure based on its social realities, through consistent reforms,” Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Fu Ying said on Sunday.
Fu told the Third World Policy Conference (WPC) in the city of Marrakech that China will also advance its political infrastructure by drawing from the successful experiences around the world, not the least from the west.
She said China is well aware that its development is by no means perfect, and it feels the pinch of urgency for furthering all-around reform…
G20: les chantiers de la présidence française
Written by Dominique Lagarde
G20: les chantiers de la présidence française
En 2011, la France présidera le G20, cette organisation informelle qui regroupe les nations les plus industrialisées et les grands pays émergents de la planète, vingt Etats qui, ensemble, pèsent 85% de la production intérieure brut mondiale. Le coup d’envoi de la présidence française sera donné lors du sommet du Séoul, le 12 novembre prochain. Il était donc tout naturel que la World Policy Conference, qui se tenait ce week end à Marrakech à l’initiative de l’Institut français des relations internationales, invite Jean-David Levitte, le conseiller diplomatique de Nicolas Sarkozy, à s’exprimer sur les priorités de cette présidence. D’autant que ce diplomate chevronné est aussi le “sherpa” français de ce club d’Etats…
L’UE à la World Policy Conférence: Européens, unissez-vous!
L’UE à la World Policy Conférence: Européens, unissez-vous!
Lors de la World Policy Conference se déroulant actuellement à Marrakech, l’Union européenne a exhorté les pays européens à élaborer une position unie envers tous les problèmes globaux afin de pouvoir influencer la politique et l’économie mondiale, a annoncé dimanche le correspondant de RIA Novosti sur place.
“S’il vous plaît, Européens unissez-vous”, a déclaré le commissaire européen à la concurrence Joaquin Almunia au cours de la Conférence…
2009 Conference proceedings
19:30 | Cocktail
20:30 | Dinner debate
Thierry De Montbrial
President and Founder of the WPC
Nambaryn Enkhbayar
Former President of Mongolia
Il est primordial que la réunion sur la politique mondiale soit un lieu où les petits pays comme la Mongolie ont voix au chapitre, car nous savons désormais que les grandes entreprises et les grands pays ne peuvent pas résoudre tous les problèmes.
Debates
8:30 – 9:30 | Opening session
His Majesty King Mohammed VI
King of Morocco
Ensuring peace and stability requires genuine governance based on justice and discipline.
Thierry De Montbrial
President and Founder of the WPC
Until all world powers are included in the way we deal with issues like the economic downturn, trade and climate change, our institutions will lack the richness and legitimacy necessary for dealing with today’s challenges.
Kofi Annan
7th Secretary-General of the United Nations
If we fail to adapt our coordination structures to a world that is changing rapidly, and even too rapidly, we will experience systemic crises the likes of which the recent economic and financial crisis would only be a preview of things to come.
9:30 – 11:00 | Plenary session 1
Architecture of Political Governance”
Nambaryn Enkhbayar
Former President of Mongolia
There should be performance criteria based on the quality of life we are trying to reach together.
Han Seung-Soo
Former Prime Minister of Republic of Korea
What is certain is that the Bretton Woods Institutions that have come into being since the end of the Second World War need a drastic revitalization, if not a complete form.
Hubert Védrine
Former French Foreign Minister
If Europeans were able to get beyond their own navel-gazing, they would organise themselves within the G20 to manage the change, which will be painful for them but which is inevitable.
Robert Blackwill
Senior Fellow & Senior Advisor to the President, RAND Corporation
The great powers need to work much harder to find strategic convergence on the preeminent problems that face the international system.
Debates
11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee break
11:30 – 12:45 | Plenary session 2
“Macro-economic Governance”
Fathallah Oualalou
President, Commune Urbaine de Rabat
The new macro-economic governance, the result of a new balance of power between the State and the market, is gradually becoming more varied in form.
Arkady Dvorkovich
Sherpa to President Dmitry Medvedev
The important thing is not to avoid imbalances altogether but to have manageable imbalances that can be sustained and financed, where dangerous developments can be monitored and risks can be tackled before they lead to another crisis.
Yoichi Otabe
Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs. G8 Sherpa, Japan
To be realistic, the wisdom of the G7 and the OECD lies in their introduction and strengthening of this “peer review” mechanism.
Wolfgang Munchau
Director of Eurointelligence Adviser Limited
Ultimately, when we have a process that is ad hoc and intergovernmental, we do not get agreement on what needs to be done, but only on what can be agreed.
Jacques Mistral
Head of Economic Research at Ifri
Debates
12:45 – 15:00 | Lunch debate
Thierry De Montbrial
President and Founder of the WPC
Han Seung-Soo
Former Prime Minister of Republic of Korea
Like the travelers and explorers of the old world, let us cultivate a taste of learning. Let us take a sincere interest in and show a real curiosity about others.
Debates
15:00 – 16:15 | Plenary session 3
“The future of capitalism”
Lionel Zinsou
Chairman and CEO of PAI partners
If there is one idea about this crisis that has been particularly wrong but remains tenacious, it is the idea that excessive financialisation of the economy was the root cause of the crisis.
Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa
Former Italian Minister of Economy and Finance
What has failed in the crisis is not the system in which individuals or firms pursue their self-interest, but a version of it in which they pursued self-interest without the framework of rules and public action which are indispensible to achieving that miracle.
Jeffry Frieden
Professor at Harvard University’s Department of Government
An open international economic order requires systematic, purposive, concerted cooperation among national governments.
Debates
16:15 – 16:45 | Coffee break
16:45 – 18:15 | Plenary session 4
“Energy and Climate”
Richard Bradley
Senior Manager for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency at the IEA
No single government will have the capacity to produce the range of technologies which will be required to “green” the range of economic sectors that emit GHGs.
Anil Razdan
Former Power Secretary, Government of India
Energy, which is a prime mover of development and poverty alleviation, has to be available, affordable, reliable, and sustainable.
Manoelle Lepoutre
Director of Sustainable Development and Environment, TOTAL
It is also important to work with the public authorities to make the solution acceptable to the citizen and to ensure there is both a real incentive and a framework to ensure that industrialists who create emissions and those who have the skills to store them in the ground work together.
William Ramsay
Director of the Ifri Energy Program
We have heard a great deal of talk of how low energy intensity is working nicely, economies are being de-intensified and using a lot less energy per 2 000 hours of GDP etc. However, carbon emissions are just not dropping.
Debates
18:15 – 18:45 | Mini-session 1
“Migrations”
Pierre Morel
Special Representative for Central Asia and for the Crisis in Georgia, EU
The traditional phenomenon of integration, which should be the outcome of migration except in cases of circular migration, has become increasingly urgent –but it has also become increasingly difficult.
Jean-Paul Guevara Avila
Director-General of Bilateral Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Plurinational State of Bolivia
Globalization is not only a technological or communicational revolution but it is also the human mobility and the capacity of transport and the movement of persons.
20:00 – 22:00 | Dinner debate
Thierry De Montbrial
President and Founder of the WPC
Jean-David Levitte
Diplomatic Advisor and Sherpa to President Nicolas Sarkozy
For the first time in human history, we are confronted with global crises that threaten not only our economic future but also the future of our planet.
Debates
9:00 – 10:45 | Plenary session 5
“Security”
Yutaka Iimura
Special Envoy of the Government of Japan for the Middle East and Europe
This is the importance of people involved in policy decision-making understanding various regional situations and grasping these in comprehensive terms.
Sergei Karaganov
Chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy in Moscow
Regarding the positive component, the divide in Europe must be healed either by signing a new security treaty or by taking Russia into NATO.
Dominique Moïsi
Special Advisor to Ifri
Within this system, as a European, I am struck by the slow pace at which we accept and assimilate the changes taking place in the world.
Meir Sheetrit
Member of Knesset. Former Interior Minister of Israel.
Terrorism is no longer about small groups of people fighting against big powers. It involves international networks, very sophisticated and well funded, manipulating democracies and using them against themselves.
Debates
10:45 – 11:45 | Plenary session 6
“Economic and Financial Regulations”
Jacques Mistral
Head of Economic Research at Ifri
Kemal Dervis
Vice President and Director of Global Economy and Development Program at Brookings Institution
More of the flow of capital generated by the oil-producing countries and China needs to move towards the developing and emerging countries rather than solely to America.
Nicolas Véron
Research Fellow at Brugel, Brussels
It is not enough to have common standards: they need to be applied consistently and in a similar way; supervision needs to be consistent, as does the management of risk by the public authorities.
Debates
11:45 – 12:15 | Coffee break
12:15 – 13:30 | Plenary session 7
“International law”
Celso Lafer
Professor of Philosophy of law at University of Sao Paulo. Former Foreign Minister of Brazil
One of the items of the present international agenda is related to the politics of identity and recognition, and this brings into question the ability of a principle such as self-determination to deal with this new challenge that affects the stability of the present-day international-state system.
Serge Sur
Professor at University of Paris II – Panthéon Assas
As far as the mechanisms of international law are concerned, one must stress their creativity and their flexibility.
Assia Bensalah Alaoui
Ambassador-at-Large, Kingdom of Morocco
We can only hope that “beating” people’s consciences, in the way he is pinning his hopes on, will result in producing this salutary burst of enthusiasm for better governance of a much fairer and more equitable system, one which has still to be developed.
Debates
13:30 – 15:30 | Lunch debate
Thierry De Montbrial
President and Founder of the WPC
Amr Moussa
Secretary-General of the League of Arab States
The Arab world has to link up with the 21st century.
Debates
15:30 – 17:00 | Plenary session 8
“Health and Environment”
José Angel Cordova Villalobos
Health Minister of the United States of Mexico
Cherif Rahmani
Algerian Minister for Planning, Environment, and Tourism
The path forward will be extremely long and we must choose between two strategies: a passive strategy based on a denial of responsibility and reality or an active strategy.
Bruno Lafont
Chairman and CEO of Lafarge
Environmental protection is compatible with growth and development as long as they are planned and conducted by responsible companies.
Thomas Wellauer
Head Corporate Affairs and Executive Member of Novartis
Most ministries of health or finance, and equally the bodies of global health governance, are measuring inputs and very little in terms of outcomes from the system.
Debates
17:00 – 17:30 | Coffee break
17:30 – 18:45 | Plenary session 9
“Water, Agriculture and Food”
Michel Camdessus
Former Managing Director of the IMF. Honorary Governor of Banque de France
Water is local, almost by nature, because it is expensive to transport and has a high leakage rate. The strategic level is therefore the nation.
Christian Bréchot
Vice President for Medical Scientific Affairs, Mérieux Alliance
There is a strong need to standardize surveillance data collection and analysis as well as micro-biological methods.
Louise Fresco
Professor, University of Amsterdam
We can feed the world, even based on our current knowledge, even without using GMOs, if demand can be clearly defined and if we are able to organise markets, organise the workforce and organise inputs.
Debates
18:45 – 19:15 | Mini-session 2
“The role of Regions in Globalization”
Jordi Pujol
Former President of the Generalitat de Catalunya
Globalisation is sparking a search for identity and a need for a reference or anchorage point.
Moulay Driss Mdaghri
Président, Association marocaine d’intelligence économique, AMIE
The legitimate aspiration for the recognition of local cultures and the demand by various populations and their elites for greater participation and autonomy must be leveraged to drive development and progress.
19:15 – 19:45 | Conclusions
Thierry De Montbrial
President and Founder of the WPC
The problems addressed are multi-faceted and we have to master them if we want to be constructive and effective.
21:00 | Gala dinner
Taïeb Fassi Fihri
Minister for Foreign Affairs and Co-operation, Kingdom of Morocco
Our concern for democracy prompts us to seek a new compromise, a new global structure and better tools.
Michael Posner
Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, USA
We need a new relationship between government and civil society. When we talk about democracy, we have to have a larger vision than just elections. We need to ask what a democratic society looks like.
Samuel Kaplan
American Ambassador to Morocco
I would say that you need to have conferences very often, because only by coming together in this kind of venue and talking about these kinds of issues can we make progress in the world today.
World Policy Conference 2009 : rendez-vous le 30 octobre au Maroc
La World Policy Conference 2009, la Conférence internationale dédiée à la gouvernance Mondiale accueillera les représentants de30 pays lors de sa deuxième édition qui se tiendra au Maroc, à Marrakech, du vendredi 30 octobre au dimanche 1er novembre 2009.
“Associant, au plus haut niveau, hommes politiques, responsables d’organisations multinationales, présidents de grandes entreprises, éminents experts et chercheurs, la World Policy Conference est la seule conférence internationale consacrée spécifiquement aux questions en rapport avec les défis de notre temps dans le cadre de la gouvernance mondiale et des relations internationales.”
Parmi les 120 participants présents, des délégations officielles des Etats-Unis d’Amérique, d’Israël, d’Egypte, d’Inde, du Japon et de Russie prendront part aux débats qui seront consacrés à sept grandes thématiques au cœur de la gouvernance mondiale :
– la gouvernance politique
– la gouvernance économique et financière
– le droit international
– les mouvements migratoires
– l’énergie et le climat
– la santé et l’environnement
– l’eau, l’agriculture et l’alimentation.
L’autre Davos
Parmi les participants attendus à la deuxième World Policy Conference (WPC), à Marrakech, entre le 30 octobre et le 1er novembre, le Turc Kemal Dervis, le Brésilien Celso Amorim, le Français Hubert Védrine. La WPC, à laquelle s’associe L’Express, a pour ambition de devenir le Davos des relations internationales. Elle est organisée par l’Institut français des relations internationales (Ifri).
Confidentiel : Levitte à Marrakech
Le conseiller diplomatique de Nicolas Sarkozy, Jean-David Levitte, participera à la World Policy Conference organisée par Thierry de Montbrial, les 30 octobre et 1er novembre, à Marrakech. Celso Amorim, ministre des Affaires étrangères du Brésil, Kofi Annan, Michel Camdessus, gouverneur honoraire de la Banque de France, Jordi Pujol, ancien chef du gouvernement autonome de Catalogne, seront également présents. Au menu : la mise en place d’une gouvernance mondiale favorisant le dialogue public-privé.
Des décideurs à Marrakech pour un monde meilleur
D’éminentes personnalités sont invitées à apporter leurs contributions. BRAHIM MOKHLISS
La World Policy Conference (WPC), rencontre internationale dédiée à la gouvernance mondiale se déroulera du 30 octobre au 1er novembre à Marrakech. Associant une centaine de participants de haut niveau, choisis en raison de leur compétence et force d’influence, la WPC est considérée comme la seule conférence internationale consacrée spécifiquement aux questions de la gouvernance mondiale et les relations internationales.
Thierry de Montbrial, président et fondateur de la WPC et Nicolas de Germay, délégué général, ont fait le déplacement spécialement au Maroc cette semaine pour présenter les moments forts de cet évènement qu’ils comptent organiser dans la ville ocre.
Thierry de Montbrial qui se trouve être par la même occasion le directeur général de l’Institut français des relations internationales (IFRI) a expliqué ses objectifs pour la tenue d’un tel évènement. Il en a surpris plus d’un en prétendant que l’objectif de la WPC est de contribuer positivement à l’amélioration du monde”, a-t-il déclaré, le 8 octobre, lors d’une conférence de presse à Casablanca. “On espère arriver à faire avancer la gouvernance planétaire …”, souligne-t-il.
C’est pour cette raison que l’organisation et les participants ont été minutieusement mis au point. En ce qui concerne le choix des participants il a été pris en compte que cela ne dépasse pas 120 personnes. “Nous avons limité le nombre des intervenants pour qu’on puisse identifier les problèmes qui se posent dans le monde. Car, nous misons plus sur l’aspect qualitatif”, estime Thierry de Montbrial.
Ainsi, trois catégories de participants sont déterminées pour que les travaux de Marrakech aient de l’influence. C’est ainsi que l’ont peut dénombrer des participants de haut niveau comme Celso Amorim, ministre des Affaires étrangères du Brésil, Amr Moussa, secrétaire général de la Ligue arabe, Youssef Boutros Ghali, ministre égyptien des Finances, Raila Odiiiga, Premier ministre de la République du Kenya. La première catégorie de participants comprend les représentants des Etats. Il s’agit donc de gens qui sont dans des postes de décision ayant de l’influence. Si, lors de la première édition, neuf chefs d’Etat ont été invités, pour cette 2e édition ce sont surtout les sherpas des chefs d’Etats qui sont très attendus. Thierry de Montbrial cite Diriôz Hüsseyien, le conseiller du président turc, Abdallah Gül, l’envoyé spécial du gouvernement japonais, Yutaka Iimura, Yoichi Otabe, sherpa du G8, Jean-David Levitte, conseiller du président français Nicolas Sarkozy… La deuxième catégorie est composée des représentants des grandes entreprises comme Total, Lafarge, Novartis… La troisième comprend, quant à elle, des experts, des journalistes et des universitaires…
Sans préciser de qui il s’agit, Thierry de Montbrial a souligné qu’il y aura des participants marocains. “Il s’agit de participants comme d’autres, car nous veillons à ce que cette manifestation garde son aspect international. Je me suis également donné du mal pour réduire au maximum la participation française… Car, ce ne sont pas des discussions idéologiques de tel ou tel pays qui sont attendues. Mais plutôt des interventions brèves qui doivent intéresser le débat…”, précise-t-il. Le but est de “traiter de plusieurs questions pour pouvoir identifier les bonnes questions”, déclare-t-il. Il a expliqué que malgré le fait que cette manifestation traite de sept grands thèmes, qui semblent être très généraux, en deux jours, elle sera d’une grande importance.
La Conférence sur l’état du monde (WPC) qui aura lieu à la fin du mois à Marrakech est à sa deuxième édition après celle organisée en octobre 2008 à Evian (Centre-Est de la France). Les conférenciers débattront en profondeur de sept grandes thématiques au cœur de la gouvernance mondiale que sont “La gouvernance politique”, “Le droit international”, “La gouvernance économique et financière”, “Les mouvements migratoires”, “L’énergie et le climat”, “La santé et l’environnement”, “L’eau, l’agriculture et l’alimentation”.
Profitant des enseignements de la première édition, les organisateurs ont décidé de tenir la deuxième édition de la WPC dans un format resserré, de façon à bien cadrer les travaux de cette rencontre.
Les clés
Kofi Annan
Kofi Annan, prix Nobel de la paix et ancien secrétaire général des Nations unies prendra part aux travaux de la WPC mais sans se rendre à Marrakech. Sa participation sera enregistrée et projetée aux participants.
Diffusion.
Pour sortir de ce qu’ils qualifient de “la théorie du complot”, les organisateurs ont décidé d’enregistrer tous les travaux qui seront entièrement diffusés sur le site du journal le Figaro.
La Conférence sur l’état du monde (WPC) qui aura lieu à la fin du mois à Marrakech est à sa deuxième édition après celle organisée en octobre 2008 à Evian (Centre-Est de la France).”
Désagréments.
Les organisateurs demandent déjà aux Marrakchis de supporter les embouteillages qui seront occasionnés par l’organisation de la WPC dans la ville ocre. En effet, de hautes personnalités sont invitées pour y prendre part comme c’était le cas de la première édition tenue à évian du 6 au 8 octobre 2008. Rappelons que neufs chefs d’état et de gouvernement (parmi lesquels les présidents Sarkozy et Medvedev), 11 hautes personnalités internationales et une soixantaine d’experts avaient fait des interventions devant 650 délégués originaires d’une quarantaine de pays et environ 250 journalistes représentant une centaine de médias.
Gouvernance : Rendez-vous mondial à Marrakech
2e édition de la World Policy Conference
Plus de 120 participants, hommes politiques, chefs d’entreprise, chercheurs… attendus “AUCUNE des multiples rencontres internationales (ONU/G8), ni celles organisées par les chercheurs ne traitaient spécifiquement de la gouvernance mondiale sous tous ses aspects. Aussi avons-nous décidé de lui consacrer une conférence internationale”, explique Thierry de Montbrial, directeur général de l’Institut français des relations internationales (Ifri). Cet institut a créé la World Policy Conference. Objectif: pousser la réflexion et sensibiliser les acteurs à ce principe prôné par la mondialisation. La conférence tiendra sa deuxième édition à Marrakech du 30 octobre au ler novembre. L’édition 2008 s’est tenue à Evian.
Montbrial estime que “ce sont les grandes puissances, UE, Etats-Unis, Chine… qui s’occupaient de la gouvernance. Les pays émergents étaient pratiquement écartés”, souligne-t-il.
Au programme cette année, les différents aspects de la gouvernance et des relations internationales, la gouvernance économique et financière, le droit international, la migration, la santé, l’énergie, l’agriculture… Le tout en rapport avec les défis actuels, notamment en géopolitique, environnement, économie.
Parmi les principes de la World Policy conference, une ouverture à tous les Etats qui souhaitent y apporter une contribution positive. Les réunions sont articulées autour de l’idée d’une interaction constructive public/privé au plus haut niveau. Mais le nombre de participants à chaque réunion doit rester limité pour faciliter des rencontres fructueuses et donner un impact maximal aux sessions plénières.
Près de 120 participants (hommes politiques, responsables d’ONG, chefs d’entreprises, chercheurs, universitaires …) sont attendus à Marrakech. Parmi eux, l’on cite Amr Moussa, secrétaire général de la Ligue arabe, Jean David Levitte, conseiller diplolmatique du Président de la République française, ou encore Youssouf Boutros Ghali, ministre égyptien des Finances. En marge de l’événement, des sessions plénières sont programmées. Elles porteront sur l’architecture de la gouvernance politique, la sécurité, la gouvernance macro-économique, les régulations économiques et financières. J. B.
L’ONU a toujours été critiquée pour son incapacité à trouver le juste milieu entre les grandes puissances et les pays émergents (Pli. AFP)
Gouvernance : des personnalités mondiales à Marrakech
Deux anciens SG de l’ONU, un ex-DG du FMI, entre autres, seront au rendez-vous.
Kofi Annan, Boutrous Boutrous Ghali, Amr Moussa, Hubert Védrine, … et la liste est longue. Ce sont au moins 120 personnalités, les grandes et moins grandes du monde qui viendront débattre des défis de la gouvernance mondiale à Marrakech. Ce rendez-vous mondial, deuxième du genre se tient du 30 octobre au 1er novembre 2009 Les 120 participants de l’édition 2009 de la “World Policy Conference”, ont été sélectionnés, affirment les initiateurs de la manifestation, “en fonction de leur compétences et de leurs rayonnement”. La liste des participants compte en effet des ministres et anciens ministres, des proches collaborateurs des chefs d’Etat des pays comme la France, le Brésil, la Russie, le Japon, mais aussi des pays d’Afrique et d’Asie. Les débats s’articuleront autours de sept thématiques au coeur de la gouvemance mondiale. Il sera, ainsi, question de gouvernance politique, économique et financière, le droit international, le mouvement migratoire, l’énergie et le climat, la santé et l’environnement ainsi que l’eau, l’agriculture et l’alimentation. Breftous les sujets qui se trouvent actuellement au centre de préoccupations mondiales.
A noter que la World Poney Conference est un forum international indépendant de débat de réflexion et d’échange. Il réunit hommes politiques, responsables d’organisations multinationales, présidents de grandes entreprises et experts en divers domaines. T.A.E
• Kofi Annan sera à Marrakech à la fin du mois. (DR)
World Policy Conference 2009 : du beau monde à Marrakech !
La World Policy Conference 2009, la Conférence internationale dédiée à la Gouvernance Mondiale, accueillera Kofi Annan, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Philippe Seguin, Michel Camdessus et Hubert Védrine parmi les participants à sa deuxième édition qui se tiendra au Maroc, à Marrakech, du vendredi 30 octobre au 1er novembre prochain.
Associant au plus haut niveau plus de 120 participants choisis en fonction de leurs compétences et de leur rayonnement, la World Policy Conference est la seule conférence internationale consacrée spécifiquement aux questions en rapport avec les défis de notre temps dans le cadre de la gouvernance mondiale et des relations internationales”.
Au cours de cette seconde édition de la World Policy Conference 2009, hommes politiques, responsables d’organisations multinationales, présidents de grandes entreprises, éminents experts et chercheurs débattront de sept grandes thématiques au cœur de la gouvernance mondiale : la gouvernance politique ; la gouvernance économique et financière ; le droit international ; les mouvements migratoires ; l’énergie et le climat ; la santé et l’environnement ; l’eau, l’agriculture et l’alimentation.
La gouvernance mondiale au centre d’une conférence à Marrakech
La deuxième édition de la World Policy Conference aura lieu à Marrakech du 30 octobre au 1er novembre, a-t-on annoncé jeudi soir à Casablanca.
Considérée comme la première et la seule conférence internationale sur la gouvernance mondiale, la World Policy Conference est une rencontre annuelle consacrée spécifiquement aux questions de la gouvernance et des relations internationales en rapport avec les défis actuels.
Quelque 120 participants au plus haut niveau, choisis en fonction de leurs compétences et de leur rayonnement, débattront à Marrakech de sept grandes thématiques, à savoir la gouvernance politique, la gouvernance économique et financière, le droit international, les mouvements migratoires, l’énergie et le climat, la santé et l’environnement et l’eau, l’agriculture et l’alimentation, ont affirmé les organisateurs lors d’une rencontre avec la presse.
Cette conférence, lancée en 2008 par Thierry de Montbrial, directeur général de L’Institut français des Relations internationales (IFRI), associe hommes politiques, décideurs, responsables d’organisations multiprésidents de grandes entreprises, experts et chercheurs pour réfléchir sur tous les aspects de la gouvernance mondiale (géopolitique, économique, environnement).
Après Evian en 2008, Marrakech, Cité de culture, d’ouverture et d’échanges, est l’hôte de la World Policy Conference dans sa deuxième édition, organisée en partenariat avec des établissements, organismes et entreprises du Maroc, a-t-on souligné, relevant, par ailleurs, l’urgence de repenser la gouvernance mondiale en y associant tous les acteurs, des secteurs public et privé, impliqués dans la gouvernance mondiale.
Le programme de cette édition prévoit des sessions plénières sur l’architecture de la gouvernance politique”, “la sécurité”, “la gouvernance macro-économique”, “les régulations économiques et financières” et “le droit international”.
“Les mouvements migratoires”, “l’énergie et le climat”, “la santé et l’environnement” et “l’eau, l’agriculture et l’alimentation”, constituent les autres thèmes à l’ordre du jour de cette rencontre mondiale.
WPC La deuxième édition à Marrakech
La 2e Conférence sur l’état du monde (World Policy Conference, WPC) aura lieu du 30 octobre au 1er novembre prochains à Marrakech.
Associant hommes politiques, responsables d’organisations multinationales, patrons de grandes entreprises, experts et chercheurs, la WPC est conçue comme un lieu d’échanges et de réflexion sur la gouvernance mondiale dans tous ses aspects, notamment géopolitique, économique et environnementale.
La WPC, qui est à sa deuxième édition après celle organisée en octobre 2008 à Evian (Centre-Est de la France) et à laquelle avaient pris part une trentaine de chefs d’Etat et de gouvernement, est initiée par l’Institut français des Relations internationales (IFRI).
Lancée par Thierry de Montbrial, fondateur et directeur général de l’IFRI, cette rencontre annuelle est une conférence internationale consacrée spécifiquement aux questions en rapport avec les défis de notre temps dans le cadre de la gouvernance mondiale et des relations internationales.
L’édition de Marrakech réunira, en sessions plénières, plus de 120 participants choisis principalement en fonction de leurs compétences et de leur rayonnement, apprend-on auprès des organisateurs.
Les conférenciers débattront en profondeur de sept grandes thématiques au c£ur de la gouvernance mondiale que sont “La gouvernance politique”, “Le droit international”, “La gouvernance économique et financière”, “Les mouvements migratoires”, “L’énergie et le climat”, “La santé et l’environnement”, “L’eau, l’agriculture et l’alimentation”.
“Pour cette deuxième édition de la WPC, fait observer Thierry de Montbrial, nous misons sur l’expérience et la qualité de celles et ceux attendus à Marrakech, qui partagent notre ambition, pour trouver la juste mesure entre l’aspiration à un développement durable de l’humanité et un regard critique sur le monde actuel”.
MAROC : 2e conférence sur l’état du monde du 30 octobre au 1er novembre 2009 à Marrakech
La 2e conférence sur l’état du monde – World Policy Conference, WPC – se tiendra du 30 octobre au 1er novembre 2009 à Marrakech au Maroc. La world policy conference est conçue comme un lieu d’échanges et de réflexion sur la gouvernance mondiale dans tous ses aspects, notamment géopolitique, économique et environnementale regroupant des patrons de grandes entreprises, des chercheurs, des experts, des politiques, responsables d’organisations multinationales. La première édition s’était tenue à Evian en Haute Savoie en France et à laquelle avaient assités de nombreux chefs d’état et de premiers ministres.
Thierry de Montbrial
Cette conférence est à l’initiative de l’institut français des relations internationales – IFRI, dirigé par Thierry de Montbrial, fondateur de cet institut. Les conférenciers plancheront sur sept grands thèmes :
La gouvernance politique
Le droit international
La gouvernance économique et financière
Les mouvements migratoires
L’énergie et le climat
La santé et l’environnement
L’eau, l’agriculture et l’alimentation
2008 Conference proceedings
09:30 – 10:15 | Opening session
Presentation of the World Policy Conference
Thierry De Montbrial
President and founder of Ifri. President and founder of the WPC
The elaboration of a global capitalist system that is both efficient and fair is at stake.
François Fillon
Prime Minister of the French Republic
But beyond institutional reforms, states must regain a central role in orientation and initiative.
10:15 – 12:30 | Plenary session 1
HRH Prince Turki Al-Faisal
Chairman of King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies
Energy is an important issue between us as the developing countries and other countries that have, as the President of Estonia said, this petro-addiction.
Jaap De Hoop Scheffer
Secretary-General of NATO
If the challenges are multi-dimensional, so must be our institutional response. Civilian and military institutions must work together and complement each other.
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
President of the Republic of Estonia
When we want to achieve peace and harmony, the EU has to stand up as a union.
Mario Monti
President of the Bocconi University of Milan
I think that if there has to be more state intervention in the European Union, it’s quite crucial that it happens at the community level rather than at the national level.
Raila Amolo Odinga
Prime Minister of the Republic of Kenya
It is a paradox that the continent richest in resources is also the poorest. It is a paradox that must be reversed, for the good of all.
Hans Gert Pöttering
President of the European Parliament
Intercultural Dialogue must become an integral part of our policy-making.
Debates
13:00 – 15:00 | Parallel lunch-debates
15:30 – 17:00 | Parallel Workshops
Workshop #1 – United States: what does the world expect from the “indispensable nation”?
Han Sung-Joo
Chairman of the Asian Institute for Policy Studies. Former Foreign Minister of the Republic of Korea
At the same time, as different means of communication become more readily available and extensive, public consciousness spreads in conjunction with the expanding horizon of information.
Marshall Goldmann
Professor of Russian Economics (Emeritus) at Wellesley College, Former Associate Director of the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University
One of the most attractive aspects of the US is that even after 225 years, the US still encourages economic and social mobility.
Jim Hoagland
Columnist and Senior Foreign Correspondent for The Washington Post
What the world seems to await is better American leadership, not its elimination.
Etienne de Durand
Director of IFRI’s Security Studies Center
As such, America is key to the international security architecture, and continued American engagement is needed in most parts of the world.
Workshop #2 – Japan : what power, what strategies ?
Yukio Satoh
Former Ambassador to the United Nations. Head of the Japan Institute for International Affairs
The center of gravity of the world economy is shifting to Asia, but security conditions in Asia remain unsettled.
Valérie Niquet
Director of the Asia Centre at IFRI
The relationship with China is today undoubtedly the most structuring one for the Japanese foreign strategy in its entirety.
Workshop #3 – Is Europe with 27 and more member sustainable?
Kemal Dervis
Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Europe must be a bridge between the necessary answers to democratic aspirations and the concerns of its citizens.
Yusuf Wanandi
Co-Founder, Member of the Board of Trustees, and Senior Fellow, Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) at Jakarta
Due to the financial crisis and the economic downturn in the EU, the process of integration has become more constrained.
Michel Foucher
Former Ambassador to Latvia. Ex-Director of CAP
On a world scale, the EU functions as an economic and monetary center and as a successful laboratory of regional integration.
Hans Stark and Kerry Longhurst
KL: Fellow at IFRI, specialist in European Security issues; HS: General Secretary of the Study Committee for Franco-German Relations (Cerfa) at IFRI
Enlargement fatigue means that there is not a desperate sense of urgency to bring in the states of the western Balkans, to confront the Turkish question more squarely nor to begin discussing the prospect of Ukrainian membership.
Workshop #4 – An arc of crisis from Iraq to Pakistan
Volker Perthes
Director of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs and Chairman and Director of the Board of SWP
Different approaches are needed for Afghanistan and Pakistan, the Persian Gulf region, and the Arab-Israeli theatre.
Shireen Hunter
Visiting Professor at Georgetown University, Distinguished Scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.
Problems in this region and most especially in the three countries of Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan have roots both in recent developments, actions of the governments of the countries and key international players and events, and policies going back to decades earlier.
Marc Hecker
Research fellow at IFRI, Department of Security Studies
The arc of crisis from Iraq to Pakistan cannot be stabilized without the involvement of regional powers.
Workshop #5 – Which governance for which stability?
K. Shankar Bajpai
Former India’s Ambassador to Pakistan, China, and the United States, Chairman of the Delhi Policy Group
In such a global situation perhaps the greatest contribution each state can make to the common, continuous search for stability in the international system is to ensure effective governance within itself.
Jean-Marie Guéhenno
Member of the United Nation’s Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on disarmament matters
What is new, and could change the threat is combination of WMD and terrorism.
Marie-Christine Dupuis-Danon
International Consultant, Expert in Criminal Finance, Former Expert, Laundering of criminal money, UN Office for Crime Prevention
Because of the complexity and the diversity of matters, transparency is one of the most important issues.
Laurence Nardon
Research fellow and the manager of the Space Policy Programme at IFRI
The base is for all countries to accept different religions and languages as well as to respect human dignity.
Workshop #6 – The economy of knowledge, or education, still deserves an effort
Bertrand Collomb
Honorary Chairman of Lafarge. Chairman of Board of Directors of Ifri
Successful innovation models also require collaborative work between the public and the private sector, as evidenced by the financing of American universities.
Anatoly Torkunov
Rector of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Science
Social role of education is strongly linked with sustainable development of nations, especially those who are under transition.
Susanne Nies
Head of IFRI office in Brussels, senior research fellow with the IFRI governance and geopolitics of energy programme
The workshop has been dedicated to the issue how to generate, but exploit as well the new technologies in order to improve the knowledge economy.
Workshop #7 – Credit crisis, financial crisis, economic crisis: what to do?
André Lévy-Lang
Associate Professor Emeritus, Paris-Dauphine University. Member of the Advisory Council of l’Institut de l’entreprise
The first policy change that is needed after this crisis is a revision of the scope of banking regulations in every major country, beginning with the United States.
Gikas A. Hardouvelis
Professor at the Department of Banking and Financial Management, University of Piraeus, Greece
The current international financial crisis cannot be blamed on a single underlying cause but on the interaction of many different factors.
Jacques Mistral
Head of Economic Research at IFRI
The recent financial turmoil has also brought into sharp relief the need to rethink many aspects of financial regulation and supervision.
Françoise Nicolas; Eliane Mosse
Economist, Senior researcher at the Centre Asie of IFRI; Economist, advisor at IFRI for the Franco-Austrian Center for european convergence
One can also fear that in a climate of increasing poverty and unemployment, political radicalisation might occur, and jeopardize the way democracies operate.
Workshop #8 – Regulation of migrations, a world issue
Mohammed Bedjaoui
Former Foreign Minister of Algeria
It must be noted however, that despite all its impact, positive or negative, migration largely has so far escaped the influence of international institutions capable of regulating it.
Christophe Bertossi
Head of the “Migrations, Identities, Citizenship” Programme at IFRI
The objective should not be the militarization of borders but a common international effort to control and structure global migration according to the needs of all parties.
Workshop #9 – Is the Gold becoming an arc of hope?
Henry Siegman
President of the “U.S./Middle East Project” (USMEP). Research professor at the Sir Joseph Hotung Middle East Programme of the University of London
Peace initiatives that seek an agreement on the cheap, and refuse to pay the price demanded by these fundamentals cannot succeed.
Khadija Moshen-Finan
Head of the North African Programme at IFRI
The expression “Arc of Hope” is opposed to that of “”Arc of Crisis”” formed by countries like Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
20:00 – 22:30 | Dinner-debate
Pascal Lamy
Director-General of the World Trade Organization
The only way to make sure that emerging economies feel a shared responsibility is to acknowledge the new geo-political balance.
10:00 – 12:30 | Plenary session 2
Abdoulaye Wade
President of the Republic of Senegal
As a liberal-minded individual, I feel that human beings always have what it takes to overcome the difficulties, the outcome will of course depend on how we deal with the crisis, but we, in my view, have what it takes to overcome it.
Juan Manuel Gomez-Robledo
Representative of the President of the United Mexican States
Latin America remains the cultural reservoir of the West. It is not acceptable that the region once again be the object of economic and political envy of the major powers, especially if a form of new Cold War might return.
Nambaryn Enkhbayar
President of the Republic of Mongolia
Geographically we live in different time zones, culturally or according to our religions – in different time ages. However in terms of development and good governance we have to live in one time zone, at the same age, that is in the 21st century.
Stepan Mesic
President of the Republic of Croatia
After a war everybody is a loser! That is why I have continuously been making the same point: it is better to negotiate for ten years than to wage war for ten days.
SaKong Il
Personal Representative of the President of the Republic of Korea
All countries in the world should make every effort to take full advantage of merits of globalization, while minimizing its downsides. A strengthened international financial architecture suitable to the changed global environment will be critically important as a basis for such efforts.
Debates
13:00 – 15:00 | Parallel lunch-debates
15:30 – 17:00 | Parallels Workshops and a non plenary roundtable
Workshop #1 – Russia: domestic developments and external policies
Marshall Goldman
Professor of Russian Economics, Emeritus at Wellesley College
Unlike what happened during the Bush Administration, the Obama Administration’s policies are likely to be less threatening to Russia, yet the personal chemistry between Obama and Putin, and Medvedev and Obama, will be much cooler. It will be fascinating to see which combination produces the most cooperation between both countries.
Sergey Karaganov
Chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy
The habitual politically correct clichés will not help to improve the situation and build a new world. Meanwhile, the time is coming for creation.
Anatoly V. Torkunov
Rector of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University)
Russia is a fully participating member of the international community. The UN and not NATO is defining the international “rules of the game”. The conflicts along the Russian borders are more or less settled. However, the influence in this region is split between several actors.
Adrian Dellecker
Researcher at IFRI
For Sergei Karaganov, the main issue is clearly the US’s loss of status as sole superpower as fait accompli and the ramification this has for Europe-Russia relations.
Workshop #2 – China: domestic developments and assertion of power
Yusuf Wanandi
Co-founder, vice chairman of the Board of Trustees and senior fellow of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Foundation, Jakarta
The EU, like ASEAN, continues to be an elitist concept and has not become the concern of the general populace. The people feel that they are left out of the process.
Valérie Niquet
Director of the Asia Centre at IFRI
For Tokyo, beyond the vital importance granted to the American defender, and it is a position of foreign policy of which Japan wants to make its mark, multilateral structures, including a reformed UNO in which Japan, with others, would find its full place, must remain a priority.
Workshop #3 – India: regional power and/or world actor?
Jean-Luc Racine
CNRS Senior Fellow at the Centre for Indian and South Asian Studies (CEIAS), at the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS Paris)
India is inventing her own way to be a democracy adjusting caste to competitive politics.
Brahma Chellaney
Professor of Strategic Studies at the New Delhi-based Centre for Policy Research
While we know the world is in transition, we still do not know what the new order will look like.
K. Shankar Bajpai
Chairman of India’s National Security Board and Chairman of the Delhi Policy Group
We are becoming more aware of the world around us, of the challenges and the opportunities our increasing economic and military capabilities as well as our national needs, give rise to.
Olivier Louis
Researcher at IFRI in charge of the India and South Asia Programme, and of the French Presidency of the European Union Programme
As such, India should find its rightful place amongst the others world powers.
Workshop #4 – Sub-Saharan Africa: implosion or takeoff?
William Zartman
Professor at The Johns Hopkins University in Washington
Africa militated for independence—that is, self-government or government of one’s self by one’s self for one’s self— when it shook loose colonial rule beginning half a century ago.
Robert Glasser
Secretary General of CARE International
For every dollar invested in disaster risk reduction and preparedness, roughly seven dollars are saved in disaster response.
Alain Antil
Head of IFRI’s Sub-Saharan Africa program
In the next four decades, African societies will change drastically, massive geographical mobility is expected, and Africans will become predominantly urban.
Workshop #5 – Israel/Palestine, a crucial international issue: what commitments for external actors?
Amine Gemayel
Former President of the libanese republic
Cooperation between the Lebanese State and the Palestinian Authority is not directed against any particular faction, but it is in the interest of all Palestinians and all Lebanese people.
Henry Siegman
President of the “U.S./Middle East Project” (USMEP). Research professor at the Sir Joseph Hotung Middle East Programme of the University of London
Yet, for all that has changed, the Gulf countries cannot do without a U.S. security umbrella, for they have not developed the capacity to provide for their own security.
Shlomo Avineri
Professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Recognizing the limits of US power to broker a peace agreement in the Middle East doesn’t mean it is irrelevant.
Bassma Kodmani
Executive Director of the Arab Reform Initiative
With other challenges building in the Middle East and elsewhere, it is all the more important to reassert the centrality of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Workshop #6 – Energy and climate: what diplomatic challenges?
Thomas Becker
Deputy Permanent Secretary in the department of International Policy and Climate change in the Danish Ministry of Climate and Energy
The world is facing two very interlinked challenges: Climate Change and Energy security.
Bruno Weymuller
Advisor to the Chief Executive Officer of Total
Climate and energy issues represent major challenges. Awareness is growing of the need for international action but we must act intelligently.
William C. Ramsay
Director of the IFRI Energy program. Former Deputy Executive Director of the International Energy Agency
Despite the advantages of a global approach, the divergent interests of too many actors can well lead to a multiplication of compromises and a dilution of objectives.
Workshop #7 – World food crisis
Hervé Gaymard
Member of the French parliament
It is in the South, particularly in Africa, that the question of what to do to make agriculture once again be a priority is being asked, and everyone should unite for this agricultural priority in the South countries.
François Danel
Executive Director of “ACF: Action contre la Faim”
Although many countries are seriously affected by the food crisis, most of the affected children are still not treated.
Aline Leboeuf
Head of the programme “Health and Environment” at IFRI
Hunger is a health issue, and has to be recognized as such. Solutions also are medical, especially regarding the fight against children malnutrition.
Workshop #8 – Non plenary roundtable
Mohammed Bedjaoui
Former Minister of Algeria
Competence and transparency are the two fruitful teats of good governance.
Han Sung-Joo
Chairman of the Asan Institute for Policy Studies. Former Foreign Minister of the Republic of Korea
Even as security issues of both conventional and non-traditional nature continues to be relevant, new issues, such as environment, competition for resources, human rights, humanitarian crises, economy, and social well-being become increasingly important and relevant.
Igor S. Ivanov
Professor at the Moscow State Institute for International Relations (MGIMO). Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation
Old pattern of relations are coming to a logical end, we need the new one. We have, all in all, a chance to reinvent the world, comfortable for us all.
Hubert Védrine
Former French Foreign Minister
Westerners are discovering that they are losing, not their power and wealth which remain immense, but their monopoly. And the Western powers are not ready for that.
17:15 – 18:45 | Plenary session 3
Kemal Dervis
Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Six months ago it was thought that despite the financial crisis economic growth would still hold. But now it is clear that we are in the midst of a crisis in which the adverse repercussions on the real economy are even more significant than anticipated.
Jean-Claude Trichet
President of the European Central Bank
What makes the current crisis stand out is its extraordinarily large scale, the fact that it is hitting right at the centre of the international financial system and that it is deeply affecting industrialised countries.
Debates
20:00 – 23:00 | Official dinner
09:00 – 12:00 | Plenary session 4
Christophe De Margerie
Chief executive officer of Total
Yet climate change is being announced everywhere as being the priority, simply because what is at stake is the survival of the planet. Remember that there won’t be any more financial crisis if the planet disappears.
Pascal Couchepin
President of the Swiss Confederation
I think confidence has to be built over time. And I believe that if there is a positive lesson to be learnt from this crisis, there will be just one lesson, that is, that it will force statesmen over the world whatever their colour to be responsible and to act in a sustainable manner, to make promises that they can keep.
Boris Tadic
President of the Republic of Serbia
By working together to solve the UDI crisis, we can restore the trust and reaffirm the legitimacy of the UN Charter and the international legal regime that flows from it. This is a time for strategic thinking and bold ideas.
Thierry De Montbrial
President and founder of IFRI. President and founder of the WPC.
The future rules of the game will only be legitimate if they have been designed with the participation of everybody. One of the drawbacks of the current form of governance is that all its rules have been defined by a very small part of the planet.
12:00 – 13:15 | Closing session
Dmitry Medvedev
President of Russia
Historically, Russia is part of European civilization and for us, as Europeans, it matters a lot what values will shape the future world.
Nicolas Sarkozy
President of the French Republic
Between us, then, we must rebuild trust, the prerequisite for reviving an ambitious European-Russian partnership.
Thierry De Montbrial
President and founder of IFRI. President and founder of the WPC.
One of the drawbacks of the current form of governance is that all its rules have been defined by a very small part of the planet.
Prime Minister Raila Odinga
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World Policy Conference
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