MONDAY 26 MARCH

1. Opening Session

• Kazakhstan – LTG Bulat Sembinov, Deputy Minister of Defense
• Canada - General Maurice Baril (Ret), Special Advisor to the Ambassador for Mine Action
• Slovenia - Mr. Stanislav Vidovič, Head of Security Policy Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs PDF 130KB Russian
• OSCE - Ambassador Ivar Vikki, OSCE Centre Almaty
• OSCE CiO - Ambassador H.E. Santiago Chamorro y González-Tablas, Spain
• ICBL - Mrs. Sylvie Brigot, Executive Director of International Campaign to Ban Landmines
• UNMAS - Mr. Maxwell Gaylard, Director of United Nations Mine Action Service

2. Setting the Scene: The nature of the problem and experiences in mine action to date

• The humanitarian impact of mines: the problem, the solution – International Committee of the Red Cross – Eve La Haye, Legal Advisor in the Arms Unit PDF 18KB
• International instruments on mine action – Kerry Brinkert, Manager the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention Implementation Support Unit, GICHD PDF 408KB
• Military utility of anti-personnel mines – General Maurice Baril (Ret), Special Advisor to the Ambassador for Mine Action (Canada)s
• Overview of the landmine problem in Central Asia and the South Caucasus - International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) PDF 2MB Russian

3. Solving the Mine Problem in Central Asia

• Kazakhstan – LTG Dairov Muslim, Ministry of Defence of Kazakhstan PDF 53KB
• Afghanistan – Zekriya Khaled, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan PDF 1.5MB and, General Baher Shafi Mohammad, Ministry of Defence of Afghanistan PDF 1MB
• Tajikistan – Parviz Mavlonkulov, Tajikistan Mine Action Centre PDF 513KB
• Turkmenistan – Major Gurbandurd Yangibayev, Ministry of Defence of Turkmenistan
• Kyrgyzstan – Usupbaev Almazbek, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyzstan
• Mongolia – Sodnom Gankhuyag, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and, Otgonpurev Batsukh, Ministry of Defence of Mongolia
• Solving the Mine Problem in the South Caucasus
• Azerbaijan – Mr. Aziz Aliyev, Information Manager, Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action PDF 10MB

4. Mine action as a confidence building measure - models of regional cooperation

• Cooperation, assistance and confidence building through mine action - John MacBride, Canada PDF 1.3MB
• South Eastern Europe as a model of regional mine action cooperation - Goran Gacnik, International Trust Fund for Demining PDF 363KB English, PDF 520KB Russian
• Tajikistan Demining Dog Centre: Working in cooperation with Afghanistan - Michael Storey, Federation Suisse Deminage (FSD) PDF 666KB

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TUESDAY 27 MARCH

5. Addressing the needs of the survivors

• Mine victims in Central Asia - Brimkulova Kanykey, ICBL Kyrgyz Committee  PDF 1.1MB Russian
• Mine victim assistance in Afghanistan - United Nations Mine Action Centre Afghanistan - Mohammad Sediq, Operations Manager PDF 417MB
• Mine survivors assistance in South Eastern Europe - Iztok Hočevar, Advisor for International Relations, International Trust Fund for Demining PDF 252KB
• Physical rehabilitation in Tajikistan - Raffaello Mueller, Deputy Head of the ICRC regional delegation of Central Asia PDF 520KB

6. The Way Forward

• The OSCE Role - Yurii Kryvonos, FSC Support Unit, CPC PDF 442KB Russian
• The UN Role - Maxwell Gaylard, Director, United Nations Mine Action Service
• The Role GICHD - Ian Mansfield, Operations Director, Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining PDF 249KB
• Discussion

7.  International support for national mine action programmes

• The Tajikistan Case - Abdulsaloh Rasulov, Programme Manager, Federation Suisse Deminage (FSD) PDF 1.3MB
• The Afghanistan case - Mohammad Sediq, Operations Manager, UNMACA PDF 1.7MB
• Russian Position on humanitarian demining – Mr. Vladimir Gavaza, President, Uniexp/League of Humanitarian Mine Clearance  PDF 486KB Russian and Mr. Anatoliy Malanchuk, representative of Ministry of Defense of Russian Federation PDF 8MB Russian

8. Closing Session

• Co-Chairs’s summary of the workshop - General Maurice Baril (Ret), Special Advisor to the Ambassador for Mine Action (Canada) and Mr. Stanislav Vidovič, Head of Security Policy Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia
• Closing Statement, Mr. Aiymdos Bozzhigitov, Head of Kazakhstan Ministry of Foreign Affairs representation in Almaty