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NATO Parliamentary Assembly

NATO PA 60th ANNIVERSARY MEETING

French Delegation

DRAFT PROGRAMME

PARIS,

18 JULY 2015

www.nato-pa.int June 2015 146 SPE 15 E

MEETING VENUE

► FRENCH SENATE ► NATO PA CONTACT Palais du Luxembourg Salima Chebrek, Co-ordinator 15, rue de Vaugirard – 75 006 Paris E-mail: [email protected] Tél : +33 1 42 34 23 35 Tel: +32 (0) 2 50 4 8121

DRAFT PROGRAMME

FRIDAY 17 JULY 2015

Arrival of participants

TBC Registration of participants in the lobby of the Pullman Paris Montparnasse hotel

SATURDAY 18 JULY 2015

MEMBERS SHOULD WEAR THEIR NATO PA BADGE AT ALL TIMES. PASSPORTS OR ANY OTHER FORM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC IDENTIFICATION MAY BE REQUESTED AT ANY TIME.

8:30 Departure by bus from the Pullman Paris Montparnasse hotel to the Senate

8:45 Members gather in the Médicis room

9:00 Opening of the meeting by Gérard Larcher, President of the French Senate, and welcome remarks by Hon. Michael Turner (), President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly

Message from Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of NATO and Chairman of the North Atlantic Council

Session 1 Moderator: Hon. Michael Turner, President of the NATO PA

9:15 - 10:30 Roundtable with Ambassador Thrasyvoulos Terry Stamatopoulos, Assistant Secretary General, Political Affairs and Security Policy Division, NATO, and Alain Le Roy, Secretary General of the European External Action Service (EEAS), European Union (TBC), on NATO and EU Roles and Co-operation in a Complex and Changing World, followed by Q&A

10:30 - 10:45 Coffee break

Session 2 Moderator: Jacques Gautier, Head of the French Delegation to the NATO PA

10:45 - 12:15 Roundtable with Jean-Yves Le Drian, Minister of Defence, France, Tomasz Siemoniak, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence, (TBC), and other speaker to be confirmed, on The Strategic Context in 2015, followed by Q&A

12:15 Departure by bus to the Ministry of Defence

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12:30 - 14:00 Buffet lunch at the Ministry of Defence (Hôtel de Brienne)

14:00 Return to the Senate by bus

Session 3 Moderator: Gilbert Le Bris, Chairman of the NATO PA Mediterranean and Middle East Special Group (GSM)

14:30 - 15:45 Roundtable with Army General Pierre de Villiers, Chief of Defence Staff, France, General Jean-Paul Paloméros, Supreme Allied Transformation (SACT), NATO and General Tom Middendorp, Chief of Defence Staff, Netherlands, on What capabilities are required? followed by Q&A

15:45 - 16:00 Coffee break

Session 4 Moderator: Jean-Michel Boucheron, Strategic and Defence Affairs Advisor to the President of the French National Assembly, former Vice-President of the NATO PA

16:00 - 17:15 Roundtable with Bruce George, former Vice-President of the NATO PA (), Assen Agov, former Vice-President of the NATO PA (Bulgaria), Nicole Ameline, Chairperson of the NATO PA Defence and Security Committee and Hon. Michael Turner, President of the NATO PA, on What Role for Parliaments? followed by Q&A

17:15 Official photograph

17:30 Return to the Pullman Paris Montparnasse hotel by bus

19:30 Departure by bus to the Senate

20:00 Dinner for all participants hosted by Gérard Larcher, President of the Senate, at the Palais du Luxembourg

22:00 Return to the hotel by bus

SUNDAY 19 JULY 2015

Individual departure of participants

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