Speeches

Opening Session

Mr. Charles Kelly, Commissioner General of the Third Session of the World Urban Forum, Government of Canada
Mr. Sam Sullivan, Mayor, City of Vancouver, Canada
Mr. Gordon Campbell, Premier of the Province of British Columbia, Canada, and former Mayor of the City of Vancouver
Mr. Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations
Ms. Anna Tibaijuka, United Nations Under-Secretary-General, Executive Director of UN-Habitat
Mr. Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada
Mr. Noli de Castro, Vice-President of the Philippines and Chairman of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council
Mr. Ali Mohamed Shein, Vice-President of the United Republic of Tanzania
Ms. María Antonia Trujillo, Minister of Housing, Government of Spain and Chair of the Second Session of the World Urban Forum (speech in Spanish)
Ms. Diane Finley, Minister of Human Resources and Social Development, Government of Canada, Chair of the Third Session of the World Urban Forum.
Mr. Alphonso Jackson, Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Government of the United States of America
Ms. Kumari Selja, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Urban Employment and Poverty Alleviation, Government of India
Mr. Naokazu Takemoto, Secretary-General of the Japan Parliamentarians on Habitat and Deputy Chairman of the Asia Regional Forum of the Global Parliamentarians on Habitat
Mr. Enrique Ortiz, Secretary General, Habitat International Coalition

Alphonso Jackson , Secretary of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, Government of the United States of America
Lindiwe Sisulu , Minister of Housing, Government of South Africa

Katherine Sierra , Vice President and Network Head, Infrastructure, World Bank, USA
Mohammad Yousaf Pashtun , Minister of Urban Development, Government of Afghanistan

Chris Leach , President, Canadian Institute of Planners, Canada
Enrique Peñalosa , Visiting Scholar, New York University, USA ; former Mayor, City of Bogotá, Columbia

John Friedmann, Honorary Professor, School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia, Canada

Anna Tibaijuka, United Nations Under-Secretary-General, Executive Director of UN-Habitat

Fu Ping, Assistant President, Shanghai Land Development Group, China (speech in Chinese)

Inga Björk-Klevby, Assistant Secretary General, United Nations; Deputy Executive Director, UN-HABITAT
Xuemei Bai, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan
Kalpana Sharma, Mumbai Bureau Chief, The Hindu, India
David Satterthwaite, Senior Fellow, Human Settlements, International Institute for Environment and Development, United Kingdom
Clive Harridge, President, Town Planning Institute, United Kingdom

Mr. John Pombe Magufuli, Minister for Lands, Housing and Human Settlements Development, Government of the United Republic of Tanzania, Co-Chair of the Third Session of the World Urban Forum
Mr. Pierre Sané, Assistant Director-General, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Mr. John Kaputin, Secretary-General, African, Caribbean and Pacific Group Secretarit, Belgium
Ms. Marième Sow, ENDA Tiers Monde, Dakar, Senegal (Speech in French)
Women's Statement Presented by Ms. Ana Lucy Bengochea, Coordinator, Garifuna Emergency Committee of Honduras
Youth Statement Presented by Ms. Mernosh Tajhizadeh, ENJEU (ENvironnement JEUnesse), Quebec, Canada
Mr. Lu Bing, Deputy Mayor of Nanjing, People's Republic of China (Speech in Chinese)
Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka, United Nations Under-Secretary-General, Executive Director, UN-Habitat
Ms. Lois Jackson, Chair, Greater Vancouver Regional District, Canada
Mr. James Moore, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Public Works; Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for the Pacific Gateway and the Vancouver-Whistler Olympics, Government of Canada.