Conference Agenda
Towards a New European Security
Architecture?
Arundel House, London, December 9, 2009
December
8, 2009
7:30pm
Reception and Opening Dinner
Dinner Address: “Dialogue on European Security Architecture
after Athens OSCE Ministerial Summit”
Speaker: Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, OSCE Secretary General
December
9, 2009
9:30pm Opening of the Conference
Opening Speech
Baroness Taylor of
Bolton, Minister for International
Defence and Security, UK Ministry of Defence
Keynote Address: “A New European
Security Architecture: a Russian view”
Alexander Grushko, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation
10:30 Session One:
Threats, Risks and Challenges for European Security
Chair: Sergei Karaganov, Deputy
Director of the Institute of Europe at the Russian
Academy of
Sciences, Dean of the Department of World Economy and World Politics
at the State
Speakers:
Celeste Wallander, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence (USA)
Konstantin
Kosachev, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs
Committee of the State Duma of the
Russian Federation
Pal
Dunay, Geneva Center for Security
Studies
Igor Yurgens, Chairman, Institute for Contemporary
Development
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Session Two:
How effective is the Current European Security Architecture for addressing the Current and Future
Threats to the
European Security?
Chair:
Dana Allin, IISS Senior Fellow for US Foreign Policy and Transatlantic
Relations
Speakers:
Rolf Welberts, Political Affairs and Security Policy Division, NATO
Nikolai Bordyuzha, Secretary
General, Collective Security Treaty Organisation
Charles Grant, Director of the Centre for European Reform
Timofei
Bordachev, Director of the Center for Comprehensive European
and International Studies at the
State University – Higher School of
Economics
15:30 Coffee
Break
16:00 Session
Three: Towards a New European Security Architecture: The Way
Ahead?
Chair:
Vladimir Ryzkhov, Chairman,
All-Russia movement “Russia’s Choice”
Speakers:
Sergey
Karaganov, Chairman of Valdai Discussion Club, Chairman of the
Board of the Council on Foreign and defence Policy, Dean of the
World Economy
and International Policy Department, Higher School of Economics
Oksana Antonenko, IISSSenior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia
Robert Legvold, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fyodor
Lukyanov, Editor
in Chief of Russia in Global Affairs
18:00 Closing
of the Conference
19:00 Reception
Hosted by H.E. Yuri Fedotov, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom (Russian Embassy)
