Co-chairs : Hungary Mr. Laszlo DEAK, Dept. for Security Policy and Arms Control, MFA
 
Mali Mr. M. Mamadou Albachir MAHAMANE, Legal and Consular Affairs Directorate, MFA
Rapporteurs : Malaysia Mr. Mohamed Ali RAZALI, Policy Division, MoD
 
Slovakia Ms. Maria KRASNOHORSKA, Ambassador, Dept. of the OSCE, CoU and Disarmement, MFA
AGENDA
Monday, May 22, 2000 
09.30 – 10.00 Arrival of participants, coffee and croissants served
10.00 – 10.30 Introductory remarks by the Co-chairs
10.30 – 11.30 Session IStockpile Destruction as Preventive Mine Action Moderator: Mr. Adrian Wilkinson, Mine Action Consultant, UNDP
 
Items to be discussed:
  • insuring political priority for stockpile destruction;
  • insuring military co-operation with strict and effective civilian control;
  • transparency, monitoring, verification;
  • flow of information on available technologies, costs and environmental impact.
11.30 – 11.45 Break
11.45 – 12.45 Continuation of Session I
12.45 – 13.00 Concluding remarks by the Co-chairs
13.00 – 15.00 Break for Lunch
15.00 – 16.30 Session IICo-operative Structures for Stockpile Destruction Moderator: Ret. Gen. Gordon Reay, Advisor Mine Action Team, MFA of Canada
 
Items to be discussed:
  • financial and technical assistance – bilateral, multilateral and regional approaches to stockpile destruction;
  • logistical, technical and financial considerations for proposed co-operative structures;
  • linking donors and recipients, funding for stockpile destruction;
  • modalities of transfer and storage of foreign stockpiles;
  • avoiding competition among the various branches and actors of mine action.
16.30 – 16.45 Coffee break
16.45 – 17.45 Continuation of Session II
17.45 – 18.00 Concluding remarks by the Co-chairs
18.30 Reception hosted by the Director of the GICHD   Restaurant Vieux-Bois, Avenue de la Paix 12, Geneva
 
 
  Tuesday, May 23, 2000 
09.30 – 10.00 Arrival of participants, coffee and croissants served
10.00 – 10.30 Introductory remarks by the Co-chairs
10.30 – 11.30 Session IIICase Studies Moderator: Mr. Patrick Blagden, Technical Director, GICHD
 
Items to be discussed:
  • merits and constraints of various methods of destruction as experienced by individual countries;
  • financial, technical, social and environmental considerations;
  • planning and implementation of the process leading up to the actual destruction of stockpiles;
  • engaging the media and the public at large in the process of stockpile destruction
11.30 – 11.45 Break
11.45 – 12.45 Continuation of Session III
12.45 – 13.00 Concluding remarks by the Co-chairs
13.00 – 15.00 Break for Lunch
15.00 – 16.30 Session IV – The Way Ahead Moderator: Hungarian Co-chair
 
Items to be discussed:
  • reporting, monitoring and compliance concerns
  • need for accounting and certification procedures;
  • assessing overall progress with regard to stockpile destruction, progress report on global stockpiles and their destruction;
  • compilation of databases on donors, recipients, needs, methods, options, companies, experts;
  • possible mechanisms for monitoring and evaluating Article 7 reports;
  • possible mechanisms for engaging non-States Parties in reducing their stockpiles;
16.30 – 16.45 Coffee break
16.45 – 17.45 Continuation of Session IV
17.45 – 18.00 Concluding remarks by the Co-chairs