First GFMD Preparatory Meetings

1 February 2017

1st Meeting of the GFMD Steering Group
Room XXIII, 1st Floor, Building E Palais des Nations, Geneva

Summary report

• Summary Report of the First SG Meeting held on 1 February 2017

Statements and presentations

• Remarks by Ambassador Jorge Lomónaco, Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Switzerland

1st Meeting of the GFMD Friends of the Forum
Room XVII, 1st Floor, Building E Palais des Nations, Geneva

Summary report

• Summary Report of the First FOF Meeting held on 1 February 2017

Programme

• Provisional Agenda 1st GFMD 2017-2018 Meeting of Friends of the Forum
• GFMD 2017-2018 Co-Chairmanship Draft Concept Paper
• Provisional Budget first year GFMD 2017-2018
• Palais des Nations Map

Statements and presentations

• Synopsis of Report of GFMD 2016 Chairmanship, by Ambassador M. Shameem Ahsan, Permanent Representative of Bangladesh
• Statement by Prof. Dr. Parvati Nair, United Nations University Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility (UNU-GCM), on behalf of the GMG Chair
• Report from Civil Society - ICMC
• GFMD Business Mechanism report for 2016 and budget for 2017

2 February 2017

First Government Roundtable Team Preparatory Meetings on Tenth GFMD Summit Roundtables (June 2017)
Palais des Nations, Geneva

• Schedule of 1st RT Preparatory Meetings
• Terms of Reference, GFMD 2017 Government RT Teams