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Senior Officials'–EuroMeSCo Joint Meeting

 

Security in the Euro-Mediterranean Region:

Building a Comprehensive Concept

 

Copenhagen, 18 November 2002

Eigtveds Pakhus, Asiatisk Plads 2G, Copenhagen K

 

 

Organised by the Danish Institute of International Affairs, DUPI (Copenhagen),

 the EuroMeSCo Secretariat at the IEEI (Lisbon) and the Danish Presidency of the European Union

 

 

Tentative Programme

 

 

09:30

Opening Session

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Welcoming speech

Ambassador Carsten Staur, Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark

Per Carlsen, Director, Danish Institute of International Affairs

 

Introductory Remarks: Security and the Mediterranean

Ambassador Miguel Angel Moratinos, EU special envoy to the Middle East

Abdallah Saaf, Director, Centre de Recherches et d'Etudes en Sciences Sociales (CERSS), Rabat


 

10:30

Session 1  Different Security Cultures in the Mediterranean

Chair

Presentation

 

Representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Greece

Álvaro de Vasconcelos, Director, Instituto de Estudos Estratégicos e Internacionais (IEEI), Lisbon

Comments

Birthe Hansen, Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen

Ambassador Muhammad Shaaban, Assistant Foreign Minister for European Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Egypt

Specialist from Israel, name to come

 

11:45

Coffee break


 

12:00

Session 2  Civil Society and Security

Chair

Presentation

 

Seyfi Tashan, Director, Foreign Policy Institute (FPI), Ankara

Volker Perthes, Head of the Mediterranean Programme, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin

Comments

Ambassador Alia Bouran, Mission of the Kingdom of Jordan to Brussels

Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Director, PASSIA, Jerusalem

13:30

Lunch


 

14:30

Session 3 An Exercise in Common Language: Asymmetric Violence

Chair

Presentation

 

Roberto Aliboni, Vice-President, Instituto Affari Internazionali (iai), Rome

Salim Nasr, General Director, Lebanese Center for Policy Studies (LCPS), Beiru

Comments

Ambassador Eudaldo Mirapeix, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Spain

Mohamed Haneche, National Coordinator, Director General of Europe Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Algeria

 

16:00

Coffee break


 

16:15

Closing Session

 

 

 

Concluding Remarks

 

 

 

Towards a broader concept of security in the Mediterranean:

Reaching common ground?

Hanan Ashrawi, Secretary General, The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy (MIFTAH), Jerusalem

Gamal Soltan, Al-Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies, Cairo

 

Closing Speeches

Patrick Laurent, Head of Unit, External Relations of the European Commission, Brussels

Ambassador Herluf Hansen, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark