Thursday 16

Afternoon/ evening Arrival of participants. Registration

Evening Walk-in buffet dinner

Friday 17

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

Saturday 18

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

Sunday 19

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

Monday 20

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

Tuesday 21

Morning: Remaining participants leave

Excursion to the Keukenhof (optional)
At own cost, including extra day’s accommodation can be organized by local hosts