Programme for the Anniversary Event
3 September 2012, Ieper Room, the OPCW Headquarters, The Hague

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09:30 Opening of the Ceremony

• Mr Wang Jun, External Relations Director, OPCW Technical Secretariat

09:35-09:45 Speech by the Chairperson of the Conference of the States Parties

• H.E. Ambassador Paul Arkwright, Ambassador of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

09:45-10:00 Fifteen Years of OPCW (Statement by the Director General)

• H.E. Ambassador Ahmet Üzümcü Director-General of OPCW

10:00-10:20

Speech by the Mayor of the Hague

• H.E. Mr Jozias van Aartsen

Speech by the Host Country Official

• Mr Karel J.G. van Oosterom, Director-General for Political Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Netherlands

10:20-10:45

Message from UNODA (video)

• Ms Angela Kane, High Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs

Message from IAEA (video)

• Mr Yukiya Amano, Director-General of the IAEA

Presentation on Science and Ethics (video)

• Sir Harold Kroto, Nobel Prize Laureate for Chemistry for 1996

10:45-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:45 Panel Discussion: Multilateralism in Arms Control and Disarmament

Panel Facilitator

• H.E. Ambassador Rolf Ekéus, Chair of the Advisory Panel on Future OPCW Priorities and Chairman Emeritus of the Governing Board of SIPRI

Panel Members:

• H.E. Ambassador Tibor Tóth Executive Secretary of CTBTO
• H.E. Ambassador Adolf Ritter von Wagner Former Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee on CWC, Conference on Disarmament, Geneva
• Mr Richard Lennane Chief, Implementation Support Unit for the Biological Weapons Convention
• H.E. Ambassador Santiago Oñate Laborde Consultant for the Open-ended Working Group for the 3rd Review Conference of the CWC
• Mr Olli Heinonen, Senior Fellow Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs John F. Kennedy School of Government, Former Deputy Director General of IAEA

12:45 -14:00 Reception in the Delegates’ Lounge

• Hosted by Director-General of OPCW

14:00-15:45 Open Forum: The CWC Amidst Science and Technology Development

Panel Facilitator:

• Professor Dr Muhammad Iqbal Choudhary, Director, International Centre for Chemical and Biological Sciences, Pakistan
  

Panel Members:

• Dr Robert Mathews Member of the OPCW’s Temporary Working Groups on Education and Outreach, and Convergence of Chemistry and Biology
• Professor Djafer Benachour Chairman of the Temporary Working Group on Education and Outreach
• Dr Robin Black Chairman of the Temporary Working Group on Sampling and Analysis
• Dr Jean-Pascal Zanders Senior Research Fellow, European Union Institute for Security Studies

16:00-18:30 Venue: Institute for Global Justice

• Education and Outreach Event: “Science for Peace”, programme element of the Hague Week on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation