Réunions officielles

<p>Agenda </p><p>24 February 2014 </p><p>8:00 – 8:30 REGISTRATION</p><p>8:30 – 8:45 OPENING SESSION</p><p>•Speech by the Secretary-General of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS), Ambassador Alfonso Múnera.</p><p>•Speech by the Permanent Secretary of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA), Ambassador Roberto Guarnieri. </p><p>8:45 – 9:30 SESSION I: Debt burden and fiscal sustainability in Caribbean countries. </p><p>Moderator: Representative of the ACS</p><p>Presentation of the base document of the Permanent Secretariat of SELA, “Debt Burden and Fiscal Sustainability in the Caribbean Region”.</p><p>•Dr. Víctor Olivo, Consultant-researcher. </p><p>9:30– 11:00 SESSION II: National experience for overcoming debt burden </p><p>Moderator: Representative of SELA</p><p>•Representative of Saint Kitts and Nevis</p><p>•Representative of Jamaica</p><p>•Representative of Grenada</p><p>•Representative of Barbados</p><p>•Representative of Guatemala</p><p>11:00 – 11:30 General debate (Sessions I-II) </p><p>11:30 – 11:45 Coffee break</p><p>11:45– 12:30 SESSION III: Fiscal adjustment and economic growth: regional perspective </p><p>Moderator: Representative of the ACS</p><p>•Representative of CARICOM</p><p>•Representative of ECLAC</p><p>•Representative of the Caribbean Development Bank - CDB</p><p>•Representative of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States </p><p>12:30 – 13:00 </p><p>General debate </p><p>13:00 – 14:30 </p><p>Free time for lunch</p><p>Afternoon</p><p>14:30 – 16:30 SESSION IV: Fiscal adjustment and economic growth: multilateral perspective</p><p>Moderator: Representative of SELA</p><p>•Representative of UNCTAD</p><p>•Representative of the Inter-American Development Bank – IADB</p><p>•Representative of the World Bank</p><p>•Representative of the International Monetary Fund – IMF</p><p>•Representative of the G24 Secretariat </p><p>16:30 – 17:00 General debate</p><p>17:00 – 17:15 Coffee break</p><p>17:15 – 17:45 Conclusions and recommendations </p><p>17:45 – 18:00 CLOSING SESSION</p><p>•Speech by the Permanent Secretary of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA), Ambassador Roberto Guarnieri.</p><p>•Speech by the Secretary-General of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS), Ambassador Alfonso Múnera. </p>