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

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Session Four: A Global Missile-Launch Surveillance System for Strategic Stability

Part-1: The System and Improving Nuclear Stability through Missile-launch Surveillance
Chair: Hon. Philip Coyle, USA

Motivation and a Conceptual Design for a missile-launch warning system
– Geoffrey Forden, MIT

Discussants:
Bhupendra Jasani, King’s College, London, India and UK

Arshad H. Siraj, Director General, Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO)

Amb. Sergei Batsanov, Pugwash Conference, Geneva

Part 2: System Capabilities for Increasing Missile Proliferation Transparency
Chair: Hon. V. K. Saraswat, DRDO, India

System Capabilities for Improving Missile Proliferation Transparency
– Geoffrey Forden, MIT

Discussants:
Bertrand de Montluc, Space Councilor to the Policy Planning Staff, MFA, France

S. Chandrasekhar, National Institute of Advanced Studies, India

Abdul Hameed Toor, Quaid-i-Azam University, Pakistan

Session Five: Energy Issues in South Asia
Chair: Josephine Stein, University of East London, U.K.

Nuclear power and its alternatives for a carbon-constrained world
 – Robert Williams, Princeton University, USA

Pakistan’s Vision 2030 Plan
– Shaukat Hameed Khan, Pakistan Planning Commission

The Indian Energy Scenario
– Hon. E.A.S. Sarma, Power Secretary, India (ret.)

Luncheon Speech – “The future of the NPT”
- Paul Meyer, former Ambassador of Canada to the UN and CD in Geneva

Session Six: U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement: Global and Regional Impacts
Chair: Neil Joeck, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
                                               
Krishnamurthy Santhanam, former Director, IDSA, New Delhi, India

Hon. Parvez Butt, Secretary, Ministry of Science and Technology, Pakistan
                                   
Ashley Tellis, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, USA
                                   
Hon. Larry Scheinman, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, Monterey Institute
     
Mitsuru Kurosawa, Osaka University, Japan
                                    
Conference Dinner
Keynote Speaker – Hon. Gernot Erler, Minister of State, German Foreign Office

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