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50Th Munich Security Conference January 31 to February 2, 2014 50th Munich Security Conference January 31 to February 2, 2014 Agenda 01.02.2014 Friday, January 31, 2014 03.00 p.m. – 03.45 p.m. Venue: Conference Hall, Hotel Bayerischer Hof Welcome Remarks Wolfgang Ischinger Ambassador, Chairman, Munich Security Conference, Munich Opening Statement Joachim Gauck Federal President, Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin 03.45 p.m. – 05.00 p.m. Rebooting Trust? Freedom vs. Security in Cyberspace Venue: Conference Hall, Hotel Bayerischer Hof Statement Toomas Hendrik Ilves President, Republic of Estonia, Tallinn Panel Discussion Introduction: Timotheus Höttges Chief Executive Officer, Deutsche Telekom AG, Bonn Dr. Thomas de Maizière Federal Minister of the Interior, Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin Michael Rogers Representative, Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, United States of America, Washington, D.C. Cecilia Malmström Commissioner for Home Affairs, European Union, Brussels John Suffolk Senior Vice President and Global Cyber Security Officer, Huawei Technologies Co, Ltd., Shenzhen Matt Thomlinson Vice President, Microsoft Security, Redmond, WA Moderator: John Mroz President and Chief Executive Officer, EastWest Institute, New York, NY 05.00 p.m. – 05.30 p.m. Coffee Break Venue: Cocktail Lounge and Atrium, Hotel Bayerischer Hof Please respect the times mentioned. Doors will close immediately after the beginning of the session. Please be aware that a restrictive access policy for observers will be in place on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. 1/9 05.30 p.m. – 05.40 p.m. Venue: Conference Hall, Hotel Bayerischer Hof Statement Dr. Ursula von der Leyen Federal Minister of Defence, Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin 05.40 p.m. – 07.00 p.m. The Future of European Defence Venue: Conference Hall, Hotel Bayerischer Hof Panel Discussion Introduction: Frank Mattern Senior Director, McKinsey & Company, Frankfurt a.M. Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert Minister of Defence, Kingdom of the Netherlands, The Hague Dr. Thomas Enders Chief Executive Officer, Airbus Group, Leiden John D. Harris Chief Executive Officer, Raytheon International, Arlington, VA Dr. Pedro Morenes Eulate Minister of Defence, Kingdom of Spain, Madrid Chairman: Javier Solana Former Secretary General of NATO; former EU High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy; President, ESADE Center; Member of the Advisory Council, Munich Security Conference, Madrid 05.40 p.m. – 07.00 p.m. The Middle East Peace Process Venue: Königssaal, Hotel Bayerischer Hof Breakout Session Tony Blair Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; Quartet Representative on the Middle East, London Tzipi Livni Minister of Justice, State of Israel, Jerusalem Dr. Saeb Erekat Head of the Palestinian Negotiation Steering and Monitoring Committee, Palestinian National Authority, Ramallah Dr. Martin S. Indyk Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations, United States of America; Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy, The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. Moderator: Philip Stephens Associate Editor, Financial Times, London followed by Reception hosted by the Lord Mayor of Munich Venue: Atrium, Hotel Bayerischer Hof Please respect the times mentioned. Doors will close immediately after the beginning of the session. Please be aware that a restrictive access policy for observers will be in place on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. 2/9 10.30 p.m. Night Owl Session: The Syrian Catastrophe Venue: Conference Hall, Hotel Bayerischer Hof Introduction: Kenneth Roth Executive Director, Human Rights Watch, New York, NY Geneva Debriefing Lakhdar Brahimi Joint Special Representative of the United Nations and the League of Arab States on Syria, New York, NY Emma Bonino Minister of Foreign Affairs, Italian Republic, Rome Najib Mikati Prime Minister, Lebanese Republic, Beirut António Guterres High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations, Geneva Moderator: Prof. Dr. Anne-Marie Slaughter President and Chief Executive Officer, The New America Foundation, Washington, D.C. Comments Ahmad Al Assi Jaba (tbc) President, National Coalition of the Syrian Revolution and Armed Forces, Cairo Hadi Al-Bahra (tbc) Chief Negotiator of the Syrian Opposition Delegation, Geneva II Negotiations Please respect the times mentioned. Doors will close immediately after the beginning of the session. Please be aware that a restrictive access policy for observers will be in place on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. 3/9 Saturday, February 1, 2014 Global Power and Regional Stability 09.00 a.m. – 09.30 a.m. Venue: Conference Hall, Hotel Bayerischer Hof Opening Statements Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs, Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin Ban Ki-moon Secretary General, United Nations, New York, NY Herman Van Rompuy President, European Council, Brussels 09.30 a.m. – 10.30 a.m. Venue: Conference Hall, Hotel Bayerischer Hof Panel Discussion Europe Venue: Conference Hall, Hotel Bayerischer Hof Anders Fogh Rasmussen Secretary General, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Brussels Laurent Fabius Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, French Republic, Paris Sergey V. Lavrov Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation, Moscow Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs, Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin Moderator: Wolfgang Ischinger Ambassador, Chairman, Munich Security Conference, Munich 10.40 a.m. – 11.30 a.m. A Transatlantic Renaissance? Venue: Conference Hall, Hotel Bayerischer Hof Panel Discussion John Kerry Secretary of State, United States of America, Washington, D.C. Chuck Hagel Secretary of Defense, United States of America, Washington, D.C. Moderator: Wolfgang Ischinger Ambassador, Chairman, Munich Security Conference, Munich 11.30 a.m. – 12.00 p.m. Coffee Break Venue: Cocktail Lounge and Atrium, Hotel Bayerischer Hof Please respect the times mentioned. Doors will close immediately after the beginning of the session. Please be aware that a restrictive access policy for observers will be in place on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. 4/9 12.00 p.m. – 01.00 p.m. Europe, America, and Asia Venue: Conference Hall, Hotel Bayerischer Hof Panel Discussion Prof. Dr. Ivo Josipović President, Republic of Croatia, Zagreb Lindsey Graham Senator, Member of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, United States of America, Washington, D.C. Fu Ying Chairwoman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National People’s Congress, People’s Republic of China, Beijing Shivshankar Menon National Security Advisor, Republic of India, New Delhi Moderator: James G. Stavridis Admiral (ret.); former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe; Dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, MA Comment Fumio Kishida Minister of Foreign Affairs, Japan, Tokyo 01.00 p.m. – 03.00 p.m. Lunch Break Venue: 6th Floor Restaurant, Hotel Bayerischer Hof 03.00 p.m. – 04.30 p.m. MSC at Fifty: The Past, Present, and Future of International Security Venue: Conference Hall, Hotel Bayerischer Hof Panel Discussion Helmut Schmidt Former Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany; Editor, Die Zeit, Hamburg Valéry Giscard d’Estaing Former President of the French Republic, Paris Dr. Henry Kissinger Former United States Secretary of State; Chairman, Kissinger Associates Inc., New York, NY Prof. Dr. Egon Bahr Former Federal Minister for Special Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn Radoslaw Sikorski Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Poland, Warsaw David Miliband Former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; President and Chief Executive Officer, International Rescue Committee, New York, NY Moderator: Prof. Dr. Josef Joffe Editor, Die Zeit, Hamburg 04.30 p.m. – 05.00 p.m. Coffee Break Venue: Cocktail Lounge and Atrium, Hotel Bayerischer Hof Please respect the times mentioned. Doors will close immediately after the beginning of the session. Please be aware that a restrictive access policy for observers will be in place on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. 5/9 05.00 p.m. – 06.30 p.m. Global Power and Regional Stability: A Focus on Central and Eastern Europe Venue: Conference Hall, Hotel Bayerischer Hof Panel Discussion Introduction: Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski Former United States National Security Advisor; Counselor and Trustee, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C. Leonid Kozhara Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ukraine, Kiev Vitali Klychko Party Chairman, Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reforms, Kiev Leonid Slutsky Chairman of the State Duma Committee on the Commonwealth of Independent States, Eurasian Integration and Compatriot Relationships, Russian Federation, Moscow Irakli Garibashvili Prime Minister, Georgia, Tbilisi Traian Băsescu President, Romania, Bucharest Chairman: Štefan Füle Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy, European Union, Brussels 05.00 p.m. – 06.30 p.m. Energy and Climate Security Venue: Kleine Komödie, Hotel Bayerischer Hof Breakout Session Introduction: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Lorentz President and Chief Executive Officer, Stiftung Mercator, Essen Günther Oettinger Commissioner for Energy, European Union, Brussels Anshu Jain Co-Chief Executive Officer, Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt a. M. Sheldon Whitehouse Senator, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism for the Senate Committee on Judiciary, United States of America, Washington, D.C. Christiana Figueres Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework
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