Version 04/06
Tenth Annual NATO Conference on
WMD Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation
Interlaken, Switzerland
(Grand Hotel Victoria-Jungfrau)
23-24 June 2014
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
Sunday, 22 June
18:00 Welcome drink in the hotel offered by the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs1
Monday, 23 June
09:20
All participants are kindly requested to take their places in the Plenary room “Côté
Jardin”.
09:30
OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE 2
Welcoming remarks by Ambassador Sorin Ducaru, NATO Assistant Secretary
General for Emerging Security Challenges and Chairman of the Annual
Conference
Opening speech by Mr. Didier Burkhalter, President of the Swiss Confederation
and Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
Statement by Ambassador Alexander Vershbow, Deputy Secretary General of the
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
Keynote speech by Ambassador Ahmet Üzümcü, Director-General of the
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
10:15
COFFEE BREAK AND GROUP PHOTO
10:45 Organisational remarks by Ambassador Sorin Ducaru
Panel 1: The future of multilateral non-proliferation regimes and initiatives3
Moderator:
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Ambassador Sorin Ducaru
Dress code: casual
The Conference will be held in Grand Hotel Victoria-Jungfrau in Interlaken. Attendance is possible only with
prior registration and after issuance of a security badge. Participants are requested to carry a passport or a
photo ID with them for security purposes.
3 Oral presentations in Panels should be limited to 12 minutes (PowerPoint equipment is available). Each
Panel will be followed by an open discussion. Speakers are requested to send the text and/or slides of their
presentations to event@eda.admin.ch and v.garvalov@hq.nato.int by 19 June.
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Ms Angela Kane, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, United
Nations
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Mr. Thomas Countryman, Assistant Secretary of State for International
Security and Nonproliferation, United States
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Ambassador Enrique Roman-Morey, Chairman of the Third Preparatory
Committee for the 2015 Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty
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Ambassador Balázs Csuday, Permanent Representative of Hungary to the
UN and other international organizations in Vienna
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Ambassador Jacek Bylica, Special Envoy for Non-proliferation and
Disarmament, European External Action Service
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Ambassador Urs Schmid, Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the
Conference on Disarmament, Chairman of the Meetings of Experts and
States Parties of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention in 2014
12:00
DISCUSSION WITH THE SPEAKERS FROM PANEL 1:
audience, questions and answers
13:00
LUNCH
14:30
Panel 2: Addressing current regional proliferation threats and challenges –
the Middle East
Moderator:
Comments from the
Ambassador Benno Laggner, Head of the Division for Security Policy and
Head of the Task Force on Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation,
Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Switzerland
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Ambassador Jaakko Laajava, Under-Secretary of State at the Finnish
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and facilitator for the Conference on the
establishment of a zone in the Middle East free of nuclear weapons and all
other WMD
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Dr. Sameh Aboul-Enein, Ambassador and Deputy Assistant Foreign Minister
for Disarmament, International Security and Peaceful Uses of Nuclear
Energy, Egypt
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Ambassador Nabeela Al Mulla, former Chair of the International Atomic
Energy Agency Board of Governors and former Ambassador of the State of
Kuwait in Vienna and Brussels
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Dr. Eyal Propper, Deputy Head, Division for Strategic Affairs, Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, Israel
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Dr. Shahram Chubin, Nonresident Senior Associate, Nuclear Policy Program
at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
15:45
DISCUSSION WITH THE SPEAKERS FROM PANEL 2
16:30
End of the discussions on the first day
16:50
Buses depart in front of the Grand Hotel Victoria-Jungfrau for the dinner hosted by
the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs: Excursion Stechelberg - Mürren 2
Grütschalp – Lauterbrunnen, with Swiss dinner in the restaurant at Winteregg (see
details in programme folder)
Return to the Hotel: approximately 22:00
Tuesday, 24 June
09:00
Key-note speech by Ambassador Piet de Klerk, the Sherpa of the 2014 Nuclear
Security Summit in The Hague
Questions and Answers
09:30
Panel 3: Addressing current regional proliferation threats and challenges –
Asia
Moderator:
Mr. Wolfgang Rudischhauser, Director, WMD Non-Proliferation Centre,
NATO International Staff
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Ambassador D. B. Venkatesh Verma, Permanent Representative of India to
the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva
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Mrs. Zhihua Dong, Counsellor, Non-Proliferation Affairs, Department of Arms
Control and Disarmament, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, China (TBC)
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Ambassador Zamir Akram, Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the
United Nations in Geneva
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Mr. Il Park, Director of the Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea
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Professor Nobumasa Akiyama, Graduate School of Law, Hitotsubashi
University, Tokyo, Japan
10:30
DISCUSSION WITH THE SPEAKERS FROM PANEL 3
11:30
COFFEE BREAK
11:45
Panel 4: NATO's contribution and other international organizations efforts in
the area of WMD arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation
o Ambassador Antje Leendertse, German Federal Government Commissioner
for Disarmament and Arms Control
o Ambassador Cristian Istrate, Head of the Permanent Mission of Romania to
the International Organizations in Vienna and Chairman of Main Committee II
for the 2015 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference
o Mr. William Alberque, Head of the Arms Control Coordination Section, NATO
Political Affairs and Security Cooperation Policy Division
12:30
DISCUSSION WITH THE SPEAKERS FROM PANEL 4
13:15
CONCLUSION OF THE CONFERENCE
13:30
BUFFET LUNCH
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