Afternoon/ evening Arrival of participants. Registration
Evening Walk-in buffet dinner
08:30 Registration
9.30 - 10.00 Conference Opening: Welcome Addresses
Amb. Jayantha Dhanapala, Pugwash President (Sri Lanka)
Prof. Paolo Cotta-Ramusino, Pugwash Secretary General (Italy)
Prof. Georg Frerks, Pugwash Netherlands Chair (The Netherlands)
10:00 – 19:30 Symposium on NEXT STEPS IN NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT
Chair: Amb. Jayantha Dhanapala, Pugwash President
10:00 – 11:15 Nuclear Disarmament and the Survival of the NPT
Amb. Sergio Duarte, UN High Representative on Disarmament (Brazil)
Amb. Hans Blix, former D.G. IAEA, President WMD Commission (Sweden)
Q&A, Comments
11:15 – 12:15 Restarting US-Russian Nuclear Disarmament
Amb. Grigory Berdennikov, Ambassador at Large Ministry of Foreign Affairs
(Russian Federation)
Dr. Rose Gottemoeller, Assistant Secretary of State (USA) [TBC]
Q&A, Comments
12:15 - 14:00 Lunch/Luncheon Speech: The Entering into Force of the CTBT
Dr. Tibor Toth, Director, CTBTO (Hungary)
Introduced by Dr. Goetz Neuneck, Pugwash Council (Germany)
14:00 -15:15 Nuclear Disarmament for all Nuclear Weapons States
H.E. Amb. Hu Xiaodi, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (China)
Rt. Hon. Sir Malcolm Rifkind, MP (UK)
Comments by
Gen (Ret.) Sir Hugh Beach (UK)
M. Georges LeGuelte (France)
Q&A, Comments
15:15 – 16:30 The Non-Nuclear Weapons States and Nuclear Disarmament
Hon. Amr Moussa, General Secretary of the League of Arab States (Egypt)
State Secretary Espen Barth-Eide (Norway)
Amb. Reza Ziaran (Iran)
Q&A, Comments
16:30- 16:45 Coffee break
16:45 – 18:30 Nuclear Disarmament Beyond the NPT
Dr. Jennifer Allen Simons (Canada)
Prof. Amitabh Mattoo (India)
Lt. Gen (Ret.) Talat Masood (Pakistan)
Amb. Jeremy Issacharoff (Israel)
Dr. Sverre Lodgaard (Norway)
Dr. Rebecca Johnson (UK)
General Q&A, Comments
18:30 – 19:30 A New Prospect for Nuclear Disarmament
Hon. Dr. William Perry, Former Secretary of Defense (USA)
Concluding remarks
By Hon. Maxime Verhagen, Minister of Foreign Affairs (The Netherlands)
Presented by H.E. Pieter de Gooijer, DG Political Affairs (The Netherlands)
19:45-22:45 Welcome Reception in the Gemeentemuseum
Welcome by Mayor Van Aartsen
Visit to the galleries and light buffet dinner
09:00-11:00 Plenary Session: Nuclear Energy & Climate Change
Chair: Prof. Arthur Petersen (The Netherlands)
Prof. Tatsu Suzuki (Japan)
Prof. Allison Macfarlane (USA)
Dr. Bob van der Zwaan (The Netherlands)
Dr. Mohammed Saeidi (Iran)
11:00-11:30 Coffee break — Conference photo
11:30-12:30 Plenary Session: Report of the Secretary General
Prof. Paolo Cotta-Ramusino (Italy)
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-16:00 Working Groups meet in parallel sessions
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-19:00 Working Groups meet in parallel sessions
19:15-20:15 Keynote Speech
Chair: Dr. Berma Klein Goldewijk (The Netherlands)
Mr. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Chief Prosecutor International Criminal Court (Argentina)
Q&A, Comments
20:30-21:30 Dinner
21:30 Film: The Strangest Dream (optional)
90 minute film by National Film Board of Canada on Joseph Rotblat and Pugwash
09:00-11:30 Plenary Session: Prospects for Afghanistan
Chair: Paolo Cotta-Ramusino (Italy)
Hon. Mirwaiz Yasini, Deputy Speaker of the Wolesi Jirga (Parliament)
(Islamic Republic of Afghanistan)
Hon. Shukria Barakzai, Member of Wolesi Jirga (Parliament)
(Islamic Republic of Afghanistan)
Amb. Robin Raphel, Former US Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia (USA)
Comments by:
Amb. Humayun Khan (Pakistan)
Amb. G. Parthasarathy (India)
Amb. Aziz Ahmed Khan (Pakistan)
Amb. Mahmood Moosavi (Iran)
Dr. Peter Jones (Canada)
Dr. Alexander Nikitin (Russia)
11:30-12:00 Coffee break
12:00-13:00 Working Groups meet in parallel sessions
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:30 Working Groups meet in parallel sessions
16:30-17:00 Coffee break
17:00-19:00 Working Groups meet in parallel sessions
19:30 Dinner
09:00-11:00 Working Groups meet in parallel sessions
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Plenary Session: Dorothy Hodgkin Lecture
Hon. Sherry Rehman, Former Federal Information Minister (Pakistan)
Introduced by Prof. Amitabh Mattoo (India)
12:30-14:30 Luncheon Speech
Amb. Rogelio Pfirter, Director General of the OPCW (Argentina)
Introduced by Amb. Sergey Batsanov (Russia)
14:30-15:30 Plenary Session: Presidential Address
Amb. Jayantha Dhanapala, Pugwash President (Sri Lanka)
Introduced by Dr. Jeffrey Boutwell, Pugwash Executive Director (USA)
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-18:00 Plenary Session: Conflict resolution, Peace building and Justice
(organized in cooperation with Oxfam Novib & Cordaid)
Chair: Mr. Sverre Lodgaard, Pugwash Executive Committee (Norway)
Justice Richard Goldstone, Judge, Previous Chief Prosecutor of the United Nations
International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda
(South Africa)
Hon. Ruud Lubbers, Minister of State, Former Prime Minister (The Netherlands)
Prof. Paolo Cotta-Ramusino, Pugwash Secretary General (Italy)
Hon. Joris Voorhoeve, former Dutch Minister of Defense, Council of State,
Chair Oxfam-Novib Netherlands (The Netherlands)
18:00-18:30 Conference Closing
18:30 Drinks
Evening: Some participants leave
Morning: Remaining participants leave
Excursion to the Keukenhof (optional)
At own cost, including extra day’s accommodation can be organized by local hosts
