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- Affiliation : Deputy Director General, Rosatom State Corporation for Atomic Energy of the Russian Federation

- Position : Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
- Affiliation : Russian Foreign Ministry

- Affiliation : Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the CNS; Payne Distinguished Lecturer at the CISAC; Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution

- Affiliation : Representative of the Secretary General for Disarmament and Regional Security and the Director of Disarmament and Multilateral Relations at the League of Arab States
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2012 Conference on the Middle East Zone Free of Weapons of Mass Destruction - Searching for Solutions 04.10.2012
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Speeches:
Ali Asghar Soltanieh. Full Text
Youseff Shatilla. PowerPoint Presentation
Additional Materials:
Ivan Trushkin. WMD-Free Zone in the Middle East: From Ideas to Reality
Vladimir Orlov. A Nuclear-Weapon-Free Middle East: Looking for Solutions
PIR Center’s White Paper “NPT-2010: Strengthening the Regime”
Agenda
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Moderator - Dr. Vladimir A. ORLOV, President, PIR Center, Moscow, Russia [confirmed]
- Mohamed SHAKER, Chairman, Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs, Cairo, Egypt [confirmed]
- Ambassador Ali Asghar SOLTANIEH, Permanent Representative the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Vienna, Austria [confirmed]
10.30 – 11.00
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11.00 – 11.45
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Moderator - Dr. Vladimir A. ORLOV, President, PIR Center, Moscow, Russia [confirmed]
- Ambassador Sergey A. RYABKOV, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Moscow, Russia [confirmed]
- Ambassador Nikolai N. SPASSKY, Deputy Director General, Atomic State Corporation Rosatom, Moscow, Russia [confirmed]
- Dr. Vladimir A. ORLOV, President, PIR Center, Moscow, Russia [confirmed]
11.45 – 12.15
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Moderator - Dr. Vladimir A. ORLOV, President, PIR Center, Moscow, Russia [confirmed]
- Ambassador Wael AL-ASSAD, Representative of the Secretary General for Disarmament and Regional Security and the Director of Disarmament and Multilateral Relations at the League of Arab States, Cairo, Egypt [confirmed]
- Mohamed SHAKER, Chairman, Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs, Cairo, Egypt [confirmed]
12.15-12.45
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12.45 – 13.30
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Moderator - Dr. Evgeny P. BUZHINSKY, Senior Vice President, PIR Center, Moscow, Russia [confirmed]
- Mikhail I. ULYANOV, Director, Department for Security Affairs and Disarmament, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia [confirmed]
- Ambassador Ali Asghar SOLTANIEH, Permanent Representative the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Vienna, Austria [confirmed]
13.30 – 14.00
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14.00 – 15.30
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- Ambassador Jaakko LAAJAVA, Facilitator of the 2012 Middle East Conference, Helsinki, Finland [confirmed]
15.30 – 16.15
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Moderator - Konstantin von EGGERT, Journalist, Kommersant-FM, Member of the PIR Center Advisory Board, Moscow, Russia [tentatively confirmed]
- Rose GOTTEMOELLER, Acting Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, U.S. Department of State, Washington, the United States [confirmed]
- Ambassador Jeremy ISSACHAROFF, Deputy Director General for Strategic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel [confirmed]
- Dr. Mustafa KIBAROGLU, Chair, International Relations Department, Okan University, Ankara, Turkey [confirmed]
16.15 – 16.45
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16.45 – 17.15
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17.15 – 18.00
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Moderator - Dr. Irina D. ZVYAGELSKAYA, Chief Research Fellow, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia [confirmed]
- Ayman KHALIL, Director, Arab Institute for Security Studies, Amman, Jordan [confirmed]
- Andrey A. BAKLITSKIY, Internet Project Director, PIR Center, Moscow, Russia [confirmed]
- Prof. Youseff SHATILLA, Dean of Academic Programs, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, UAE [confirmed]
18.00-18.45
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18.45-19.00
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19.30-21.30
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Translation of the seminar was availiable in our Twitter account https://twitter.com/PIR_Center
For questions related to the international seminar of October 4th, please contact Alexander Kolbin at phone +7 (495) 987-19-15, +7 (985) 764-98-96, fax +7 (495)981-19-14, or at email: Kolbin at pircenter.org.