Workshop: Post-Conflict Actions

Cleaning of war explosives, eliminating resulting surpluses and humanitarian action

Madrid, June 14, 2011

PROGRAM

9:30 – 10:00 Welcome and key remarks
– Prof. Vicente Garrido, Director of INCIPE
– Gonzalo de Salazar, General Deputy Director for Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation

10:00 – 10:20 Panel I: Technical problems of destroying and deactivating landmines/ UXO in operating zones
– Mj. Santiago Barrio Gil-Furnier, International Demining Center (Spanish Army), Hoyo de Manzanares (Madrid)

10:20 – 10:40 Panel II:SALW destruction procedures
– Col. Alberto Hidalgo González de Aledo, Spanish Verification Unit (U.V.E.)

10:40 -11:00 Coffee Break

11:00- 11:20 Panel III: The Humanitarian Demining Dimension
– Antonio Viu Masedo, Office for Humanitarian Action, AECID, Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation

11:20 – 12:00 Debate

12: 00 Closing session and Final conclusions
– Prof. Vicente Garrido, Director of INCIPE
–Gonzalo de Salazar, General Deputy Director for Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation