The Bureau will define specific themes for presentations at its next meeting in November 1999 after which the Regional Groups will be invited to expeditiously nominate countries to make presentations. Modalities of the Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue Segment on Agriculture 17. The Bureau agreed that the purpose of the multi-stakeholder segment is to generate action oriented dialogue between governments and major groups on a specific economic sector, such as agriculture, and to identify future policies and actions that increase the positive impact of this economic sector on sustainable development objectives. It was also agreed that specific issues to be addressed under these topics may be further discussed in consultation with governments and organizing partners from major groups. The Bureau recommended that the Segment has four sessions starting in the afternoon of 24 April 2000 and running through the morning of 26 April 2000.
Participants then engage in a participatory dialogue in the remaining two hours of the session.
The Chairman of the CSD will moderate the dialogue. The Bureau underscored the importance of a balanced participation of representatives from developed and developing countries, as well as from all regions in major groups' delegations to the Segment. It also stressed the importance that these delegations include participation of indigenous people. In light of the above the Bureau invited the organizing partners, through the Secretariat, to submit the first preliminary list of their delegations by mid-January 2000 and, thereafter, to keep the Bureau informed on further progress in formation of their delegations. It was agreed that the Chairman will write letters to the organizing partners to that effect.