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"Russia and nuclear nonproliferation agenda: towards the 2015 NPT review conference". 04.10.2014
Extended Meeting of the PIR Center Advisory Board and the Trialogue Club International
On October 4, 2014 PIR Center held the anniversary meeting of its Advisory Board on the topic "Russia and Nuclear Nonproliferation Agenda: towards the 2015 NPT Review Conference." The conference was attended by senior Russian government officials, experts, representatives of relevant agencies and companies, foreign diplomats, participants and alumni of PIR Center training programs. During the three sessions of this meeting we discussed current state of the nonproliferation regime and the approaches of Russia to the problems of nonproliferation, arms control, and the uses of peaceful nuclear energy. Meeting was held in partnership with the Trialogue Club International.
Agenda of the meeting
13.30 – 14.00
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14.00 – 14.10
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- Vladimir A. ORLOV, Director, PIR Center
14.10 – 15.45
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Moderator: Evgeny P. BUZHINSKY, Chairman of the Executive Board, PIR Center
- Vladimir A. ORLOV, Director, PIR Center (presentation in Russian)
- Evgeny P. BUZHINSKY, Chairman of the Executive Board, PIR Center (text in Russian)
- Tariq RAUF, Director, Arms Control and Non-proliferation Programme at Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) (pdf presentation)
- Evgeny V. MIASNIKOV, Director, Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies (text in Russian)
15:45 – 16:00
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16:00-17:30
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Moderator: Albert F. ZULKHARNEEV, Executive Director, PIR Center
- Mikhail N. LYSENKO, Director, Department of International Cooperation, Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation (text of the speech in Russian)
- Mehdi SANAEI, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the Russian Federation (text of the speech in Russian)
- Andrey A. BAKLITSKIY, Information Program Director, PIR Center (text of the speech in Russian)
17:30-17:45
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17:45-19:00
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17:45 – 19:00
Moderator: Elena V. CHERNENKO, Observer, Foreign Policy Department, Kommersant Publishing House
- Vladimir A. ORLOV, Director, PIR Center
- Fedor A. LUKYANOV, Chairman, Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defence Policy
- Yevgeny Y. SATANOVSKY, President, Institute for Middle East Studies
Transcript of the round table (in Russian)
19:00-22:00
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