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CONFERENCE ON SECURITY AND COOPERATION IN SOUTH ASIA: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
Berlin, Germany October 8-10, 2007

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Session Seven:Space Policy – Challenges and opportunities for cooperation
Chair: Shaukat Hameed Khan, Pakistan Planning Commission

The Indian space program
- Ajey Lele, Institute of Defense Studies and Analysis,

China's Space programme: Problems & Prospects
- Srikanth Kondapalli, Jawaharlal University

Pakistan’s space program
– Arshad H. Siraj, Director General, SUPARCO

The use of outer space for security and defence - the European perspective
– Thomas Beer, European Space Agency

Session Eight: Preventing Weaponization of Space
Chair: Götz Neuneck, University of Hamburg

Discussant: Ambassador Paul Meyer, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Canada

US space security policy
– Nancy Gallagher, University of Maryland

Indian view
- Maj. Gen. Dipankar Banerjee (ret.), Inst. of Peace and Conflict Studies

Pakistani view
– Ambassador Masood Khan, Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the UN in Geneva

European view
- Ambassador Rüdiger Lüdeking, the German Foreign Office

Session Nine: Global Nuclear Disarmament
Chair: Oliver Meier,University of Hamburg

Hon. Uta Zapf, Chair, Subcommittee on Disarmament, German Bundestag

Prof. William Walker, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, U.K

Marvin Miller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Mitsuru Kurosawa, Osaka University, Japan

Closing Plenary: What are the Opportunities for Cooperation in South Asia?
-           Summary Reports from the designated session Rapporteurs
-           Brief closing comments from representatives of participating countries
-           Roundtable discussion

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