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First Consultative Meeting of the EU Non-Proliferation Consortium

Name: First Consultative Meeting of the EU Non-Proliferation Consortium
Start: 2011-05-23T00:00:00+02:00
End: 2011-05-24T23:59:59+02:00
Location: Conference Centre Albert Borschette (CCAB)

23 May 2011 - 24 May 2011

Final Program

Monday, May 23, 2011

Welcome
- 9:00 – 10:00 : Registration and Welcome Coffee
- 10:00 – 10:15 : Welcome Address and Introduction to the Meeting
  - Annalisa Giannella, European External Action Service (EEAS)
  - Harald Müller, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), Germany / EU Non-Proliferation Consortium
1. Session: EU policy
- 10:15 – 11:15 : Implementation of the EU Strategy against the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction
  - Speaker: Peter van Ham, Clingendael, Netherlands
- 11:15 – 12:15 : “New lines for action” implementation: Where are the Gaps?
  - Speaker: Vicente Garrido Rebolledo, INCIPE, Spain
- 12:15 – 13:45 : Lunch
2. Session: Weapons of Mass Destruction
- 13:45 – 15:00 : The Iranian problem: Is a diplomatic solution still possible?
  - Speaker: Mark Fitzpatrick, International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS), United Kingdom / EU Non-Proliferation Consortium
- 15:00 – 16:15 : The NPT after the 2010 Review Conference
  - Speaker: Harald Müller, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), Germany / EU Non-Proliferation Consortium
- 16:15 – 16:45 : Coffee Break
- 16:45 – 18:00 : Strengthening the BWC: Options for the 2011 Review Conference
  - Speaker: Cindy Vestergaard, Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Denmark
- 19:30 – 21:30 : Conference dinner at the Hotel Silken Berlaymont, 11-19, Boulevard Charlemagne, B- 1000 Brussels
  - Dinner speech: Ambassador Mara Marinaki, Managing Director for Global and Multilateral Issues, EEATuesday, May 24, 2011

3. Session: Space and Missiles
- 9:00 – 10:15 : Space: Options for Arms Control?
  - Speaker: Sergio Marchisio, European Centre for Space Law (ECSL) / Rome University, Italy
- 10:15 – 11:30 : Missile proliferation: Extending missile non-proliferation tools – new initiatives
  - Speaker: Stéphane Delory, Fondation pour la recherche stratégique (FRS), France
- 11:30 – 12:00 : Coffee break
4. Session: Conventional Weapons
- 12:00 – 13:15 : The UN SALW Action Program: Implementation of EU SALW strategy towards the 2012 Review Conference
  - Speaker: Cedric Poitevin, Groupe de recherche et d’information sur la paix et la sécurité (GRIP), Belgium
- 13:15 – 14:45 : Lunch
- 14:45 – 16:00 : Arms Trade Treaty
  - Speaker: Paul Holtom, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Sweden
5. Outlook and Closing of the Meeting
- 16:00 – 17:00 : Further development of the network
  - Speaker: Camille Grand and Benjamin Hautecouverture, Fondation pour la recherche stratégique (FRS), France / EU Non-Proliferation Consortium
- Closing of the meeting
  - Harald Müller, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), Germany / EU Non-Proliferation Consortium
  - Annalisa Giannella, European External Action Service (EEAS)

Details

Start:: 23 May 2011
End:: 24 May 2011
Event Category:: Consultative Meetings

Venue

: Conference Centre Albert Borschette (CCAB)
: 36 rue Froissart
Brussels, B- 1040

Organizer

: Giorgio Franceschini – Associate Research Fellow
Email: franceschini@hsfk.de
: View Organizer Website