Sunday, 20th November: arrival of Participants - Chambery (Lyon St Exupéry Airport or
Chambery Train Staion. Hotel B&B, Chambery)
• Monday, 21th Novermber, 08:30-21:30: visit to the Bauges and Chartreuse Mountain Ranges
• TUESDAY, 22TH NOVEMBER, 09:00-18:00: WMPA INTERNATIONAL BOARD (espace Malraux)
• Tuesday, 22th November, 20:15: EVENING (Centre de Congrès le Manège).
Documentary: Uratarimanta. Public discussion
• WEDNESDAY, 23TH NOVEMBER, 09:00-18:00: WMPA INTERNATIONAL BOARD
• THURSDAY 24TH NOVEMBER, 09:00-18:00: WMPA INTERNATIONAL BOARD
• Thursday, 24th November, 18:00: PRESS CONFERENCE (espace Malraux)
• Friday, 25th November, 07:00-21:00: Visit - The Aosta Valley
• Saturday, 26th November: departure of participants
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PROGRAMME: 
The third world meeting of Oloron Sainte-Marie has enabled us to gather and adopt together, after vivid discussions, a MANIFESTO which reasserts our faith in the future of our territories and in our determination to preserve them.
In order to apply this "roadmap" according to our principle of participation and shared responsibility, we have renewed our international organisation system to reinforce its representativeness and its legitimacy.
This first meeting of the renewed board will enable us to evaluate our actions, our limits and our perspectives.
Thus, The Regional Vice-Presidents will report on the actions they have undertaken in each region to disseminate our proposals. This evaluation will enable us to measure the influence of our organisation at an international scale and to implement measures to improve this influence.We will intensify and coordinate our efforts to elaborate the proposals which will be summited to the international authorities at the occasion of the 3rd Earth Summit which will be held in Rio de Janeiro from May 14th to 16th 2012, according to the political purpose proclaimed in the Oloron Manifesto.
We will meet together in Chambery to elaborate the proposals for the Earth Summit, 2012:
- Drafting of a Charter on the Territories: The Charter of Territories, which would respond to the following question: "How can the exploitation of the natural resources not lead to the destruction of our communities and nature but enable the mountain peoples to preserve their human and natural balance in order to ensure good living conditions in the territories?". Some multidimensional case studies (MDCS) conducted in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe were conducted before the Oloron meeting to fuel our reflections.
- Preparing the Rio+20 summit: The WMPA will attend the next Earth Summit in Rio in 2012 to represent the mountain peoples and to present their proposals. In 1992, for the first time, the Agenda 21 contained a separated chapter on mountain territories. What is at stake for the mountain peoples is to amend the chapter 13 on managing fragile ecosystems on the basis of our Charter of Territories.
CANDIDATES FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF THE THEMATIC GROUPS
(please, click on the links to see the proposed plans)
John Bonds Bideri's candidacy (Rwanda)
- INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' RIGHTS, AUTONOMY, TERRITORY AND STATES:
Gelver Zapata Izquierdo's candidacy (Colombia)
Díaz-Reixa Suárez's candidacy (Canary Islands)
Jorge Hernandez's candidacy (Spain)
- MINING PROJECTS, DAMS, LAND-GRABBING AND MASS TOURISM:
Mayfereen Lyngdoh Ryantathiang's candidacy (India)
Numary Raja's candidacy (Pakistan)
- SHOWCASING OF MOUNTAIN PRODUCTS: Samir Newa (Nepal): elected in Oloron
- REGIONAL CENTRES OF COOPERATION AND EXCHANGE
- BIODIVERSITY AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY
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