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Schedule
Switzerland and the Mekong Region
Development under the Banner of Food Security and Globalization
12.00
Welcome – Mekong Info Exhibition
13.30
The Mekong region in upheaval
Portrait of a geographically, culturally, economically, and politically heterogeneous region in a state of rapid change.
13.35
Opening of the Annual Development Cooperation Conference
Federal Councillor Micheline Calmy-Rey, Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
 Speech (in german and french)
13.50
Laos, a developing country in the heart of a dynamic region
Khempheng Pholsena, Minister to the Prime Minister's Office, Head of Water Resources and Environment
Administration
14.00
Sustainably shaping globalization: Challenges in Vietnam and Laos
International networking of the economy, politics, culture, the environment, communication –
Coping with globalization in the Mekong Region. Challenges for Swiss development cooperation.
Economic integration against the backdrop of globalization: Vietnam and world trade
Speech on Vietnam's accession to the World Trade Organization WTO
Switzerland's contribution to enhancing Vietnam's competitiveness
The SECO Programme aimed at fostering sustainable, socially-minded economic growth
Interview with Vu Hanh, Vietnamese entrepreneur
14.30
Food for all: Agriculture in the interest of Food Security
Laos has recently gone from being an importer of rice to becoming self-sufficient. On the national level, it has attained food security. Meanwhile, our world and our food security have, on the whole,
become more vulnerable. Although the causes are manifold, climate change and the resulting loss of fertile soil are surely among them.
Our daily portion of rice – Results of Swiss Cooperation with the International Rice Research Institute IRRI
Achim Dobermann, International Rice Research Institute
IRRI
14.50
Climate change, the environment, and food for all
Center for Development and Environment CDE
Climate change in the Mekong Region and the Swiss contribution to coping with it
SDC's programme to foster sustainable development
Coffee break – Mekong Info Exhibition
16.00
Structural change, trade channels, and multilateral cooperation
Thomas Crouch, Deputy Director General of the Asian Development Bank
16.10
The Mekong – a region in upheaval
Panel discussion
16.45
Partnerships: a key to success
Ambassador Martin Dahinden, Director-General of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC
Secretary of State Jean-Daniel Gerber, Director-General of the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO
Aperitif – Mekong Info Exhibition
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