EU Consortium Middle East international seminars

First EU Consortium Middle East Seminar (July 2011)

Seminar Background Papers

• The dynamics of missile proliferation in the Middle East and North Africa
  by Stéphane Delory
• Nuclear capabilities in the Middle East
  by Mark Fitzpatrick
• Peaceful uses of nuclear energy in the Middle East: multilateral approaches
  by Giorgio Franceschini and Daniel Müller
• A Zone free of WMD and means of delivery in the Middle East: an assessment of the multilateral diplomatic process, 1974–2010 by Benjamin Hautecouverture and Raphaëlle Mathiot
• The Arms Control and Regional Security Working Group: still relevant to the Middle East?
  by Peter Jones
• A weapons of mass destruction-free zone in the Middle East: an incremental approach
  by Harald Müller and Claudia Baumgart-Ochse
• Status of non-proliferation treaties, agreements, and other related instruments in the Middle East
  by David Santoro
• Conventional strategic military capabilities in the Middle East
  by Pieter D. Wezeman

Other Documents

• Agenda
• Final Assessment, by Camille Grand, Chairman of the EU Non-Proliferation Consortium

Second EU Consortium Middle East Seminar (November 2012)

Seminar Background Papers

• Making Peace Attractive: Negotiated Agreement between Israel and the Palestinians
  by Claudia Baumgart-Ochse
• Building Confidence over Biological Matters in the Middle East
  by Una Becker-Jakob
• A Middle East Zone free of Weapons of Mass Destruction – the subject of a Helsinki meeting projected for 2012
  by Hans Blix
• The Middle East Regional Security Regime and CSBMs
  by Shlomo Brom
• Building confidence towards a MEWMDFZ via a Chemical Weapons ban
  by Dina Esfandiary
• The Regional Security Environment and Basic Principles for the Relations of the Members of the Zone
  by Nabil Fahmy
• Promoting nuclear safety and nuclear security in the Middle East region
  by Mark Fitzpatrick
• Towards WMDFZ in the Middle East: Biological Confidence-Building Measures
  by David Friedman
• A Top Down Approach to a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone in the Middle East
  by Pierre Goldschmidt
• Curbing missile proliferation in the Middle East: Options for a comprehensive policy
  by Bruno Gruselle
• A Middle East free of Missiles and Weapons of Mass Destruction: An Iranian View
  by Nasser Hadian
• The Regional Security Architecture and Other Confidence Building Measures
  by Peter Jones
• Conceptualizing CSBMs Proper Vehicles (DVs) Sector for the Middle East Conference (MEC)
  by Bernd W. Kubbig
• Assessing the relevance of nuclear CBMs to a WMD arms control process in the Middle East today
  by Emily Landau
• Reflection on ‘The Regional Security Environment and basic Principles for the Relations of the Members of the Zone’
  by Ariel (Eli) Levite
• Tiptoe, stride and leap: steps towards a WMD- free Middle East
  by Patricia Lewis
• A Regional Arrangement on Securing Radiological Agents as a CSBM: Common Interest in Preventing Radiological Terrorism
  by Aviv Melamud and Nilsu Gören
• The Iran Nuclear Dilemma: The Peaceful Use of Nuclear Energy and NPT’s Main Objectives
  by Seyed Hossein Mousavian
• Building Confidence vis-à-vis Transitional Egypt
  by Daniel Müller
• Basic principles for a process leading to the establishment of a Middle East Free of Weapons of Mass Destruction
  by Harald Müller
• Missiles and Other Means of Delivery in the Middle East
  by Uzi Rubin
• The Issue of ‘Delivery Systems’ in a Middle East Zone Free of Weapons of Mass Destruction
  by Carlo Trezza
• A think piece on confidence-building measures in the Middle East
  by Sinan Ülgen
• Biological and Chemical Weapons and the Prospective Disarmament Process in the Middle East
  by Jean Pascal Zanders

Other Documents

• Seminar Reader

Seminar Agenda

Monday, 5 November, 2012

09:00 – 10:00 Accreditation, Coffee

10:00 – 10:15 Welcome

10:15 – 12:00

Plenary Session I: Parameters and Properties of a Zone free of WMD in the Middle East and Basic Principles for a Regional Security Architecture

10:15 – 11:00 Presentations
11:00 – 12:00 General Discussion

12:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:30

Breakout Sessions I: Confidence Building and Technical Measures in the Area of WMD and Means of Delivery

Nuclear Confidence Building and Technical Measures

14:00 – 14:30 Presentations
14:30 – 15:30 Discussion

Biological and Chemical Confidence Building and Technical Measures

14:00 – 14:30 Presentations
14:30 – 15:30 Discussion

Missiles and Other Means of Delivery

14:00 – 14:30 Presentations
14:30 – 15:30 Discussion

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee

16:00 – 17:30

Breakout Sessions II: Confidence Building Measures Improving Regional Peace and Security

Improving the Regional Security Architecture and Other Confidence Building Measures

16:00 – 16:30 Presentations
16:30 – 17:30 Discussion

Peaceful Use of Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Safety and Security

16:00 – 16:30 Presentations
16:30 – 17:30 Discussion

19:00 Cocktail

20:00 Dinner, Keynote Speech

Tuesday, 6 November, 2012

09:00 – 10:30

Plenary Session II: Assessing Confidence Building Measures within a Process Leading up to the Establishment of a MEWMDFZ

09:00 – 09:30 Presentations
09:30 – 10:30 General Discussion10:30 – 11:00Coffee11:00 – 12:40

Plenary Session III: Report of the Chairs of the Breakout Sessions – Gauging Common Ground

11:00 – 11:40 Report of the Chairs
11:40 – 12:40 General Discussion12:40 – 13:00Conclusion & Farewell13:00 – 14:00Lunch