International Conference: The future of the Non-Proliferation Regime. Prospects for the 2010 NPT Conference
November 19, 2009
PROGRAM
9:30 – 10:15 Conference Inauguration
– José Lladó, Ambassador of Spain. President of the INCIPE Foundation
– Santos Castro, General Director for Institutional Relations, Ministry of Defence, Spain
Keynote Speech by Miguel Ángel Moratinos, Minister of Foreign Affairs and
Cooperation of Spain
10:15 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:30 First Panel:“Current Nuclear Proliferation Challenges”
Chairman: Darío Valcárcel, CEO, Estudios de Política Exterior SA. Member of the INCIPE’s Board
– Eliot Kang, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Threat Reduction, Export Controls, and
Negotiations, US Department of State
– Klaus-Peter Gottwald, Ambassador, Federal Government Commissioner for Disarmament and Arms
Control, Federal Foreign Office, Germany
– Michele Miraillet, Director of the Department for Strategic Affairs, Ministry of Defence, France
– Vladimir A. Orlov, President, PIR Center, Moscow. Editor-in-Chief of the Security Index Journal
12:30 – 12:45 Coffee Break
12:45 – 14:15 Second Panel:“What role for the European Union?”
Chairman: Miguel Aguirre de Cárcer, Ambassador on Special Mission for Disarmament
Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Spain
– Carmen Buján, General Director for Strategic Affairs and Terrorism, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and
Cooperation, Spain
– Annalisa Gianella, Personal Representative on WMD Non-Proliferation to the High Representative
of the EU, Council of the EU, Brussels
– Alison Kelly, Director, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, Department of Foreign Affairs, Ministry
of Foreign Affairs, Ireland
– Judith Gough, Deputy Head, Security Policy Group, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, United Kingdom
17:00 – 18:30 Third Panel:“The situation in the Middle East”
Chairman: Natividad Fernández, Strategic and Security Affairs Division, Ministry of Defence, Spain
– Taous Feroukhi, Ambassador and Resident Representative of Algeria to the IAEA. Chair of the
IAEA’s Board of Governors for 2008-2009
– Khaled Shamaa, Ambassador-Deputy Assistant for Disarmament Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Egypt
– BG Miguel Ángel Ballesteros, Director, Spanish Institute for Strategic Studies, Ministry of Defence
18:30 – 19:00 Closing Session and final conclusions
– Vicente Garrido, Director, INCIPE Foundation
– MGen José Javier Muñoz Castresana, Deputy Director-General for Cooperation and Civil Defence,
Ministry of Defence, Spain
– Gonzalo de Salazar, Deputy Director-General for Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, Ministry of
Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Spain
