Workshop and Round Table

Strenghtening Nuclear Security, Safety and Safeguards Culture: Infrastructure Development and Capacity Building in the Arab Countries

April 25th-26th, 2010

League of Arab States (LAS), Cairo, Egypt

Organized by

League of Arab States (LAS), Cairo, Egypt

In cooperation with

International Working Group-Landau Network Centro Volta (IWG-LNCV), Como, Italy

Arab Atomic Energy Agency (AAEA), Tunis, Tunisia

Preamble

The goal of this event is to promote initiatives aimed at enhancing existing networks/centers, securing the human and technical resources necessary for creating and sustaining a responsible nuclear energy infrastructure, and adapting international concepts for a nuclear safety and security culture in the Arab countries.

In order to address future nuclear energy expansion in the Arab states, the promotion  of best practice, professional responsibility and expertise and international standards in educational programs is needed.

Furthermore, the enhancement of existing or emerging nuclear networks for civilian purposes would be the concrete answer to the new holistic approach to non-proliferation as well as the practical way to provide an effective “twinning” of the AAEA infrastructures with peer centers in countries that have a civilian nuclear capacity.

This Workshop and Round Table will explore the national/multilateral/international initiatives that best serve the needs of the LAS countries.

A simultaneous translation Arab/English will be provided.

Round Table

Enhancing Responsibilities from the States Towards the

Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty

April 14th 2010

Italian Embassy

3000 Whitehaven Street,

N.W. Washington, DC
US

Organized by

Landau Network – Centro Volta (LNCV), Como, Italy

Italian Embassy, Washington, DC, US

in collaboration with

The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS),

Washington DC, US

 and with the support of

Unit of Policy Planning (UAP) of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The scope of this Round Table (RT) is to have a serious debate among experts and senior public figures involved in non proliferation work as part of the preparation for the next NPT RevCon. The purpose of the debate would be to identify different points of view on the key disagreements that are likely to surface during the RevCon between and among the P-5 and the NNWS. In particular the key questions that the debate would address are the following:

1.      What is the correct understanding of rights and responsibilities pertaining to NWS and NNWS under the NPT?

2.      What have NWS and NNWS done so far to meet these responsibilities, however conceived?

3.      Are the action undertaken by both categories of States thus far adequate to their obligations?

4.      What other action ought to be pursued by each category of signatories to realize these obligations?

5.      What other measures or initiatives will be required by both sides to strengthen the NPT regime over time?

The moderated debate would address these issues in an oral form with back-and-forth among the participants.

Side Event to the Meeting of State Parties of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention

International Cooperation, Biosecurity and the Education of Life Scientists

Salle XXIII, Palais des Nations, Geneva

7 December 2009

Organized by

The National Academies, US

National Defense Medical College, Japan

University of Bradford, UK

International Working Group – Landau Network Centro Volta, Italy

organized by

Landau Network Centro Volta (LNCV), Como, Italy

promoted  and supported by

General Directorate for Mediterranean and Middle-East (GDMM)
of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), Rome, Italy

Agenda and Participants List