Transportation Ministerial Meeting
Date: May 7-9 
Location: Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, Hotel Las Brisas  
Participants List

- Agenda -

May 7

09:00 – 18:30            Meeting of the Executive Committee – Ixtapa I-II Rooms
        - Draft Report on the VI Executive Committee Meeting -

12:00 - 20:00             Registration Lobby

20:00 – 21:30            Welcome Reception – La Brisa II Restaurant

May 8

08:00 – 09:00            Registration – Vista Hermosa Rooms

08:45 – 09:45             Opening Ceremony

                                    Keiji Kanashiro – Vice minister of Transport of Brazil

                                    René Juarez Cisneros – Governor of Guerrero

                                    Pedro Cerisola y Weber (Spanish only) – Secretary of Communications 
                                    and Transportation of Mexico

Vicente Fox Quesada – President of Mexico (Live Message in     
            Spanish only)

Pedro Cerisola y Weber – Opening Statement

09:45 – 10:00            Break/Official Photo

10:00 – 11:00  Report of WHTI Activities

                                    Keiji Kanashiro - Vice minister of Transport of Brazil

                                    Ted Cherrett (English / French) -  Transport Canada

                                    José Alex Oliva (Portuguese only)– Chairman of the Executive Committee

                                    Remarks by Ministers and International Organizations

11:00 – 11:15  Break

11:15 – 12:30            Transportation Forum: The Challenges of Regional

Integration

Ministerial Dialogue 1: Comprehensive in Transportation

Panelists

Michael Jackson – Deputy Secretary of Transport, USA

Assad Kotaite (Spanish only)– President of the Council of ICAO

Remarks by Ministers and International Organizations

12:45 – 14:45  Lunch Hosted by Mexico Kau Kan Restaurant

14:45 – 15:45            Ministerial Dialogue 2: New Proposal for Financing Transportation

Panelists

Phillippe Birebent (Spanish or Portuguese only)– Senior Operational Specialist IDB

Lucio Cáceres Behrens  (Spanish only) – Ministers of Transport of Uruguay - Power Point Presentation (Spanish only)

José Luis Irigoyen (Spanish only)– World Bank

Remarks by Ministers and International Organizations

15:50 – 16:50            Ministerial Dialogue 3: The Environment and Transport

                                    Panelists

                                    Victor Lichtinger (Spanish only)– Secretary of Environment of Mexico

                                    Remarks by Ministers and International Organizations

16:55 – 17:55            Ministerial Dialogue 4: Multimodal Networks and

Hemispheric Integration

Panelists

Keiji Kanashiro – Vice minister of Transport of Brazil

David Collenette – Minister of Transport of Canada

Javier Etcheberry Celhay (Spanish only)– Minister of Transport of Chile

Remarks by Ministers and International Organizations

17:55 – 18:00             Conclusion of the Forum

Pedro Cerisola y Weber – Secretary of Communications of Transportation of Mexico

18:00 – 19:00            Bilateral/Multilateral Meetings – Ixtapa and Vista Hermosa

Rooms           

19:30 – 20:15  Turtle Liberation Ceremony – Beach of the Las Brisas Hotel

20:15 – 22:30  Dinner of Honor – Villa de la Selva Restaurant in Ixtapa

May 9

09:00 – 09:30            Special Presentations:

 Vista Hermosa Rooms

“Plan of Public Transport for Santiago”  (Spanish only)- Javier Etcheberry Celhay, Chile

“Does railroads play a role in Latinoamerican integration?” – Ian Thompson, ECLAC

09:30 – 10:15            Priorities and Future Tasks

                                    Presenters:

                                    Michael Jackson – Deputy Secretary of Transport, USA

                                    Javier Chavez Bolaños – Minister of Public Works and

Transport of Costa Rica

-         Recap

-         Priority Areas

10:15 – 10:45            Bilateral/Multilateral Meetings – Ixtapa and Vista Hermosa

Rooms           

10:45 – 11:00  Break

11:00 – 11:45            Ministerial Declaration– Review and final revisions  
                                    Recommendations (Spanish only)
                                    Annex 2 and Annex 3 (Portuguese only)

11:45 – 12:15            Bilateral/Multilateral Meetings – Ixtapa and Vista Hermosa

Rooms

12:15 – 12:30  Break

12:30 – 13:00            Closing Session

                                    Approval of the Joint Ministerial Declaration

                                    Keiji Kanashiro – Vice minister of Transport of Brazil

                                    Pedro Cerisola y Weber  (Spanish only) – Secretary of Communications

and Transportation of Mexico

13:00 – 13:30  Press Conference/ Press Release

13:30 – 15:45            Farewell Lunch hosted by Mexico - Patio - Solarium

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