PARLIAMENTARY TRANSATLANTIC FORUM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Organized by:

 

 

 

THE NATO PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY

THE ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES

AND THE NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY

 

 

 

To be held at the National Defense University, Fort McNair, Washington DC

 

 

December 11-12, 2006

 

 

 

 

International Secretariat                                                                                                28 November 2006

 

 

Participants arrive in Washington DC. (No official transport is foreseen between the airport and the hotel).

 

Accommodation at:

 

The Marriott at Metro Center Hotel

775 12th Street NW

Washington, DC 20005

                                   

Tel:                                         +1 202 824 6144

General Hotel Fax:               +1 202 347 5886

Sales Dept Fax:                     +1 202 824 6106

Website:                                 http://www.marriott.com/

Group Reference:                “NATO Parliamentary Assembly”

Rate:                                       US$ 209 per room per night excluding breakfast and taxes for those rooms reserved before the cut-off date of 9 November 2006

 

A registration desk will operate in the lobby of the Marriott at Metro Center hotel between 18:00 and 20:00. Conference information and badges for Members arriving later than 20:00 will be distributed by Susan Millar at the National Defense University on Monday morning.

 

 

 

 

All meetings will take place in Room 155 of the Marshall Hall of the National Defense University.  Urgent messages can be left for participants at the following telephone number: 

(+ 1 202) 685 3857 or by fax: (+1 202) 685 3866

 

 

09:00               Depart Marriott at Metro Center Hotel by bus

 

09:20               Arrival at the National Defense University (NDU) - security procedures

 

09:30               Welcome remarks by Lt. Gen. Frances C. Wilson, USMC, President, National Defense University (confirmed)

 

09:45               Introductory remarks by Stephen Flanagan, Director, Institute for National Strategic Studies, NDU (confirmed), Simon Lunn, Secretary General, NATO Parliamentary Assembly (confirmed), and Fred Kempe, President Designate, Atlantic Council of the United States (confirmed)

 

 

 

10:00               Moderator:     Mr. José Lello, Vice-President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, (Portugal) (confirmed)

 

Presentation by Amb. Nicholas Burns on Addressing Global Challenges: NATO's Role after Riga (confirmed)

 

11:00               Break

 

 

11:30                           Moderator:     Ambassador Robert B. Oakley, Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute for National Strategic Studies, NDU (confirmed)

 

Panellists / Presentations: 

 

·         Professor Ali Jalali, Distinguished Professor, Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University, on The Internal Political Situation in Afghanistan –The Opium Problem (confirmed)

·         Frederick D. Barton, Co-director, Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project and Senior Adviser, International Security Program, CSIS, on The Diplomatic Challenge: Reconstruction and Peace Building in Afghanistan (confirmed)

 

12:55               End of Session

 

13:00               Buffet lunch in the atrium (immediately adjacent to the meeting room)

 

 

14:00               Moderator: Judith Yaphe, Senior Research Fellow and Middle East Project Director, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University (confirmed)

 

Panellists / Presentations: 

 

·         Ambassador David Welch, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, US Department of State on The Diplomatic Challenge posed by Lebanon

·         Richard C. Barth, Assistant Secretary for Policy Development

·         Ambassador Dennis Ross, Counselor and Ziegler Distinguished Fellow, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy on The State of the Middle East Peace Process (confirmed)

 

16:00               End of Session

 

 

16:15               Moderator: Dr. Philip Saunders, Senior Research Fellow, INSS, NDU (confirmed)

 

Panellists / Presentations: 

 

·         Richard Lawless, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Asia and Pacific Affairs on China's strategic Challenge to the United States and the West

·         Hon. Richard Armitage, President, Armitage International on U.S. perspectives on the changing Asian Pacific Security Environment

 

17:30               Session ends

 

17:45               Buses depart to the Marriott at Metro Center Hotel

 

+/- 18:15         Return to hotel

 

Evening           Free for embassies or national representations

 

 

08:30               Depart Marriott at Metro Center hotel by bus

 

08:50               Arrival at the NDU - security procedures

 

 

09:00               Moderator: Stephen Flanagan, Director, INSS, NDU (confirmed)

 

                        Panelists / Presentations: 

 

·         Dr. Daniel Hamilton, Richard von Weizsäcker Professor and Director of the Center for Transatlantic Relations, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins' University on What contribution can NATO make to building Homeland Security? (confirmed)

·         General Charles Wald, Deputy Commander, HQ US European Command, on Energy Security and Homeland Defense (confirmed)

·         Michael Scardaville, Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Border and Transportation Security, Office of Policy & Planning, Department of Homeland Security

 

11:00               Break

 

 

 

 

11:15               Moderator: Fred Kempe, President Designate, Atlantic Council of the United  States and former Editor of Wall Street Journal, Europe (confirmed)

 

Panelists / Presentations: 

·         Doyle McManus, Washington Bureau Chief, The Los Angeles Times on The New Congress and the Foreign Policy Agenda (confirmed)

·         David Frum, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research on Winding down the Bush Presidency: the Foreign Policy Agenda (confirmed)

 

12:50               Session ends

 

12:50               Concluding remarks by Stephen Flanagan, Director, INSS, NDU (confirmed)

 

+/-13:00           End of Programme

 

+/-13:10           Departure of buses

 

One bus will return to the Marriott at Metro Center Hotel and one bus will depart to Washington Dulles International Airport.