9.00 – 9.30

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Registration

09.50 - 10.00

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Documentary film «Kazakhstan for a Nuclear Weapon-Free World»

10.00 – 10.05

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10.05 – 10.15

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Statement by the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan H.E. Mr. Nursultan Nazarbayev

10.15 – 10.20

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Video message of the UN Secretary General Mr.Ban Ki-Moon

10.20 – 10.30

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Address of the U.S. President H.E. Mr. Barack Obama

and short statement by  Mr. Daniel Poneman, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy

10.30 – 10.40

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Statement by H.E. Mr. Yukiya Amano, IAEA Director General

11.30 – 13.00

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Panel Session 1   (Hall №2 for panel sessions)

Theme: Achieving a Nuclear Weapon-Free World

Moderator: Sverre Lodgaard, former Head of  United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

• Panelists take their seats in a presidium

Speeches (5 minutes):

-          Mr. Muratbek Imanaliyev, Secretary General, Shanghai Cooperation Organization

-          Mr.Vladimir Garkun, CIS Executive Committee

-          Lord John D.A. Waverley, Member of the House of Lords, UK Parliament

-          H.E. Mrs.Yoriko Kawaguchi, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Co-Chairman of International Non-proliferation Commission (Japan)

-          Mr.Sam Brownback, Governor, State of Kansas, USA

-          Mr. Tomihisa Taue, Mayor of Nagasaki (Japan)

-          Mr.Vladimir Orlov, President, Center of Political Studies, Russia

-          Mr.Jonathan Granoff, President, Global Security Institute (USA)

·         Open discussion

12.30 – 13.00

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Press-conference of Mr. Kanat Saudabayev, Mr. Yukiya Amano, Mr. Daniel Ponemann, Mr. Tibor Toth

(press-center)

13.00 – 14.00

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Lunch

14.00 – 15.30

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Panel Session 2

Theme: Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty – role of governments and society in early entry into force of the Treaty

Moderator: Tibor Toth, Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO)

Speeches (5 minutes):

-          Mrs.Rose Gottemoeller, Assistant Secretary of State (USA)

-          Mr.Morten Hoglund, Member of Parliament (Norway)

-          Mr.Hiroshi Kawauchi, Member of Parliament (Japan)

-          Mr.Naokazu Takemoto, Member of Parliament (Japan)

-          Mr.Christoph Eichhorn, Special Representative of the Government on Non-Proliferation issues (Germany)

-          Mr.Aymeri de Montesquiou, Member of Senate (France)

-          Mr.Аlyn Ware, Secretary General of the Organization “Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament”

-          Mr. Jan Breyne, Deputy Mayor of Ypres (Belgium)

-          Mr.Paul Walker, Green Peace (USA)

·         Open discussion

15.30 – 16.00

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Coffee-break

16.00 – 17.30

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Panel Session 3

Theme: Creation of nuclear weapon-free zones: problems and perspectives

Moderator: William Potter, Director of Center for Non-proliferation Studies (USA)

Speeches (5 minutes):

-          Mr.Miroslav Jenca, UN Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia

-          Mr.Chinar Aldemir, Executive Director, Secretariat of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA)

-          Mr.William H. Courtney, Former US Ambassador to Kazakhstan

-          Mr.Тsutomi Ishiguri, Former Director of UN Non-proliferation and disarmament Center in Asia and Pacific (Japan)

-          Mr.Bulat Sultanov, Director of the Center for Strategic Studies (Kazakhstan)

-          Mr.Nobuyasu Abe, Director of Non-Proliferation Center (Japan)

·         Open discussion

17.30 – 18.30

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Closing of the Conference

Moderators sum up panel sessions

Closing remarks by H.E. Mr.Yerzhan Kazykhanov, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Adoption of Astana Declaration