The first day will feature speeches by Fernando Rendón, Colombia, President of the WPM; Nicolás Maduro Moros, President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela; Rawhi Fattouh, President of the Palestinian National Council; Adonis, Syria; Chief Fortunate Charumbira, President of the Pan-African Council Parliament, South Africa; Freddy Alfred Ñáñez, Sectoral Vice President of Communication, Culture and Tourism of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela; Ghassan Zaqtan, Palestinian poet; Juan David Correa, Minister of Culture, Arts and Knowledge of Colombia; Anarella Velez, Minister of Heritage of Honduras; Zolani Mkiva, South Africa; Murad Sudani, Palestinian poet, President of the Palestinian Writers Union; Gilles Devers, France; Huu Viet, poet from Vietnam; Mohammed Achaari, poet, former Minister of Culture of Morocco; Mikhail Krivnosov, Russia, Vadim Terekhin, vice-president of the Writers Union, Russia; Raul Zurita, poet from Chile; Cao Shui, poet from China; Tahar Bekri, Tunisian poet; Ashraf Aboul-Yazid, poet and journalist from Egypt; Boaventura De Sousa, sociologist from Portugal; Antonio Gamoneda, poet from Spain; Rafael Araya Masry, President of COPLAC, Palestinian Latin American and Caribbean Confederation, Argentina; Nikolaos Vlahakis, poet and diplomat from Greece; Dr. Alaa Abd alhadi, President of the Palestinian Confederation of Latin America and the Caribbean (COPLAC), Argentina; Nikolaos Vlahakis, poet and diplomat of Greece; Dr. Alaa Abd alhadi, President of the Arab Writers Union; Maria Angeles Perez Lopez, poet from Spain; Gustavo Pereira, Venezuelan poet; Ashraf Fayad, Palestinian poet; Saley Boube Bali, poet from Niger; Yousef Abd Al Aziz, Palestine; Anwar Al Khatib, Lebanon; Slimane Djouadi, Algeria; Ahmad Zaabar, poet from Tunisia; Abdullah Issa, Palestinian poet; Ibrahim Nasrallah, poet from Jordan; Jaime Caicedo, anthropologist from Colombia; Egyptian journalist Abd Alhalim Ghazali, Hindu Anderi, Coordinator of the Palestinian Platform International Solidarity, Journalist, Lebanon/Venezuela; Gabo Sequeira, Argentine artist; Rati Saxena, poet from India; Adamou Ide, poet from Niger; Abdel Hafiz Nofal, Ambassador of the Palestinian State in Russia; Abel Prieto, Director of Casa delas Américas, Cuba; Ignacio Ramonet, Spanish journalist; Christos Koukis, Greek poet; Fadil Oktay, Turkish poet; Nariman Far, Palestine; Ramon Medero, Venezuela; Keshab Sigdel, poet and human rights defender from Nepal; Shuruk Duqqa, Venezuela; Alma Alvarado, Mexico; Susana Khalil, Venezuela; Maribel Mora Curriao, Mapuche poet from Chile; Ali Al Amerí poet from Jordan/Palestine, Marina Akhmedova, Russia; Faride Zeran, Chile; Brahim Tazaghart, Algeria; Bassel Ismail Salem, Cuba; Graciela Ramirez, Cuba; Samar Alghoul, Khalid Raissouni, poet from Morocco and Gabriel Jaime Franco, poet from Colombia.