Seminar on "The European Security and Defence Policy: how to deal with the new threats"

Seminar
on
"The European Security and Defence Policy: how to deal with the new threats"
co-hosted by the Spanish Cortes Generales and the WEU Assembly

Valencia, 9-10 February 2004

Programme

Monday 9 February 2004
09.30	Opening session
	Inauguration of the seminar:
	Mrs Rita Barberá Nolla, Mayor of Valencia
	Mr Guillermo Martínez Casañ, Chairman of the Spanish Delegation to the WEU Assembly and Chairman of the Political Committee
	Mr John Wilkinson, Chairman of the Defence Committee
	Mr Francisco CAMPS, President of the Generalitat Valenciana
	Keynote speaker: Mrs Ana Palacio, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Spain
11.15	First session: Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction
	Chairman: Mr Francisco Arnau Navarro, Chairman of the Technological and Aerospace Committee
	Speakers:
	- Mr Vicente Garrido (pdf), Director, Instituto de Cuestiones Internacionales y politica exterior (INCIPE), Madrid
	Mr Giorgio Zappa, President and Director General, Alenia Aeronautica S.p.A.
13.15	End of first session
15.00	Second session: Terrorism
	Chairman: Mr John Wilkinson, Chairman of the Defence Committee
	Speakers:
	- Mr Jean-Luc Marret, Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (Foundation for Strategic Research), Paris
	- Mr Agustín Díaz de Mera, Director General of Police, Ministry of the Interior, Spain
	- Mr Haizam Amirah Fernandez, Senior Analyst, Real Instituto Elcano, Madrid
	- Mr Colin Cleary, Political Counsellor, US Embassy, Madrid
18.00	End of second session
Tuesday 10 February 2004
10.00	Third session: Cooperation with the southern Mediterranean countries on regional problems
	Chairman: Mr Guillermo Martínez Casañ, Chairman of the Spanish Delegation to the WEU Assembly and Chairman of the Political Committee
	Speakers:
	- Prof. Castor Diaz Barrado, Professor of Public International Law, Juan Carlos I University, Madrid
	- Mrs Elvira Sánchez, Researcher, Centre d'información I documentació internationals (CIDOB), Barcelona
	- Mr Francis Ghiles, Senior Fellow, Euro-Arab Management School (EAMS), Granada, [2002-2003]
	- Mr Andreu Claret, Director of the European Mediterranean Institute
13.00	Conclusions:Mr Guillermo Martínez Casañ, Chairman of the Spanish Delegation to the WEU Assembly and Chairman of the Political Committee
	Closing address by Mr Julio de España, President of the Cortes Valencianas
	Press Conference