Historical archive

Meeting of the Nordic Development Ministers

Historical archive

Published under: Bondevik's 2nd Government

Publisher: Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The meeting of Nordic Development Ministers will take place from 10.00 till 15.30 hours on 14 December 2004 at Holmenkollen Park Hotel. At 15.30 hours there will be an opportunity for individual meetings between the press and the participants at the meeting. (07.12)

Meeting of the Nordic Development Ministers

Oslo, Wednesday 14 December

Draft 06.12.2004

Proposed agenda

  1. Preparations for the Second High Level Forum on Harmonisation and Alignment for Aid Effectiveness (Denmark)
  2. UN 2005 Summit (”Millenium +5”), the MDGs, the Sachs report, MDG 8 reporting (Finland)
  3. UN reform in the economic and social area, incl. High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change (Sweden)
  4. Nordic Initiative for establishment of UN commission on formalization of the rights of the poor (Norway)
  5. Message from Nordic/0.7 countries to UK G-8 Chairmanship (Norway - draft text to follow)
  6. MDB issues: IDA 14, AfDF 10, NDF (Iceland)
  7. HIV/AIDS. The feminization of the pandemic. Future perspectives. (Norway)
  8. Developments with regard to Nordic and EU aid policies (Tour de table - if time permits, this item could be addressed during lunch).

Items to be addressed during lunch:

  1. Peace-building (Norway),
    and relevant country situations:
  2. Central Africa (Sweden)
  3. Sudan, incl. plans for donor conference in Oslo (Norway)
    Global Fund for Repatriation and Durable Solutions (Denmark)