10:30 Opening ceremony (Main Hall):

(Video presentation)

Keynote addresses by:

• Sir Donald Maitland, author of the "Missing Link" (report of the Independent Commission for World-Wide Telecommunication Development, 1985)
• Mr. Ahmed Laouyane, Director, ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau
• Dr. Pekka Tarjanne, Secretary General of the ITU
• Dr. Vladimir Petrovsky, Under-Secretary General of the United Nations and Director of the United Nations Office in Geneva
• The Honorable Dr Alfred Sant, Prime Minister of Malta

12:00 Election of and address by Chairman of the Conference

14:30: Plenary: Telecommunication development in the world: trends and strategies

• Statements by Ministers (in French alphabetical order of countries), followed by Statements by Deputy Ministers as time allows