E/2021/25 E/CN.9/2021/6 Annex II Proceedings of the virtual informal meetings of the fifty-fourth session of the Commission on Population and Development Virtual informal meetings to hold the general discussion, as well as three panel discussions followed by interactive dialogues, under agenda item 3 and its sub-items (a) and (b) 1. At the virtual informal meeting of the Commission held on the afternoon of 19 April 2021, following a statement by the Chair of the Commission, Yemdaogo Eric Tiare (Burkina Faso), the expert panel and interactive dialogue were moderated by Vice-Chair and Minister Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of El Salvador to the United Nations, Mayra Lisseth Sorto Rosales, who also made a statement. 2. At the same meeting, the following panellists responded to the questions posed by the moderator: Senior Population Affairs Officer, Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Cheryl Sawyer; Senior Economist, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Lorenzo Bellù; Technical Specialist, Population and Development Branch, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Sandile Simelane; Director of School-based Programmes, World Food Programme, Carmen Burbano; and Senior Adviser, UNFPA, Michael Herrmann. 3. Also at the same meeting, the Commission commenced its general discussion on sub-items (a) and (b) under agenda item 3 and heard statements by the representatives of Denmark (on behalf of the Nordic countries), Turkey, India and Zambia. 4. At the same virtual informal meeting held on the afternoon of 19 April, statements were also made in the general discussion by the observers for Finland (on behalf of Albania, Andorra, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Bulgaria, Canada, Cabo Verde, Congo, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Fiji, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guinea, Honduras, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malawi, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mexico, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Palau, Peru, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Republic of Moldova, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Ukraine, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Uruguay), the Congo (on behalf of the Group of African States), Mongolia, Peru, Kenya and South Africa. 5. At the virtual informal meeting held on the morning of 20 April 2021, the Commission held a high-level panel on the road towards the United Nations Food Systems Summit in 2021, which was chaired by Vice-Chair Damla Fidan (Turkey), who made a statement. 6. The high-level panel and interactive dialogue were moderated by the Director of the Center for Development Research at the University of Bonn in Germany, Joachim von Braun, who made a statement. 7. The following panellists responded to the questions posed by the moderator: the Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations Environment Programme, Ligia Noronha; the Chief Economist of FAO, Maximo Torero Cullen; the Director of the 21-06093 29/32