Members of the European Union at the 2010 NPT Review Conference. How to achieve success?

Programme

9.15–10.45     

Session 1: The international context

• Global proliferation picture: a view from Brussels, Ambassador Jacek Bylica, Head of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Centre, NATO
• The US disarmament agenda. Impact on the Review Conference, F. Daniel Sainz, Political Counsellor, American Embassy, Warsaw
• Global Zero, nuclear disarmament and its influence on the Review Conference, Götz Neuneck, Deputy Director and Head of IFAR2, IFSH, Hamburg

Moderator: Sławomir Dębski (PISM)

10.45–11.00   Coffee break

11.00–13.00   

Session 2 : How to define progress? The main challenges of the Conference

• The Non-Aligned Movement perspective, Ambassador Hisham Badr, Permanent Representative of the Arab Republic of Egypt to the United Nations, Geneva
• The British approach to the 2010 Conference, Kristan Stoddart, Research Assistant, Aberystwyth University
• Disarmament obligations and progress at the NPT Review Conferences, Łukasz Kulesa, Deputy Head of the Research Office, PISM

Moderator: Jacek Bylica (NATO)

13.00–14.30    Lunch

Keynote speech:

Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland

14.30–16.30   

Session 3: What can the EU contribute to the Review Conference?

• Poland’s priorities at the Review Conference, Marek Szczygieł, Deputy Director of the Security Policy Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poland
• The EU and disarmament, Henrietta Wilson, Acronym Institute
• Assessment of EU’s strengths and weaknesses at the Conference, Christos Katsioulis, Project Manager, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

Moderator: Łukasz Kulesa (PISM)
 

List of Participants

1. Hisham Badr, Permanent Representative of the Arab Republic of Egypt
   to the United Nations, Geneva
2. Szymon Bocheński, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poland
3. Jacek Bylica, Head of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Centre, NATO
4. Sławomir Dębski, Director of Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM)
5. Christos Katsioulis, Project Manager, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
6. Łukasz Kulesa, Deputy Head of the Research Office, PISM
7. Cezary Lusiński, First Councellor, Permanent Mission of Poland, Geneva
8. Marek Madej, PISM
9. Götz Neuneck, Deputy Director and Head of IFAR2, Institute for Peace Research
   and Security Policy at the Hamburg University (IFSH)
10. Przemysław Pacuła, National Security Bureau, Poland
11. Grzegorz Poznański, Director, Bureau of Diplomatic Security,
    Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poland
12. Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland
13. Łukasz Różycki, Department of International Security Policy, Ministry of National Defence, Poland
14. F. Daniel Sainz, Political Counsellor, American Embassy, Warsaw
15. Jacek Sawicz, Head of Nordic and Arctic Unit, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poland
16. Witold Sobków, Political Director, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poland
17. Kristan Stoddart, Research Assistant, Aberystwyth University
18. Marek Szczygieł, Deputy Director of the Security Policy Department,
    Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poland
19. Rafał Tarnogórski, PISM
20. Marcin Terlikowski, PISM
21. Andrzej Towpik, Former Permanent Representative of the Republic of Poland
    to the United Nations
22. Henrietta Wilson, Acronym Institute
23. Bartosz Wiśniewski, PISM
24. Przemysław Wyganowski, Alternate Permanent Representative to United Nations, Vienna