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<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="85">Co-chairs : </td><td valign="top" width="57">Hungary </td><td valign="top" width="485">Mr. Laszlo DEAK, Dept. for Security Policy and Arms Control, MFA</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="85">
</td><td valign="top" width="57">Mali </td><td valign="top" width="485">Mr. M. Mamadou Albachir MAHAMANE, Legal and Consular Affairs Directorate, MFA</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="85"></td><td valign="top" width="57"></td><td valign="top" width="485"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="85">Rapporteurs : </td><td valign="top" width="57">Malaysia </td><td valign="top" width="485">Mr. Mohamed Ali RAZALI, Policy Division, MoD</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="85">
</td><td valign="top" width="57">Slovakia </td><td valign="top" width="485">Ms. Maria KRASNOHORSKA, Ambassador, Dept. of the OSCE, CoU and Disarmement, MFA</td></tr></tbody></table>AGENDA <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td width="187">Monday, May 22, 2000</td><td width="437">
</td></tr><tr><td width="187">09.30 – 10.00 </td><td width="437">Arrival of participants, coffee and croissants served </td></tr><tr><td width="187">10.00 – 10.30 </td><td width="437">Introductory remarks by the Co-chairs </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="187">10.30 – 11.30 </td><td width="437">Session IStockpile Destruction as Preventive Mine Action Moderator: Mr. Adrian Wilkinson, Mine Action Consultant, UNDP </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="187">
</td><td width="437">Items to be discussed:

insuring political priority for stockpile destruction;
insuring military co-operation with strict and effective civilian control;
transparency, monitoring, verification;
flow of information on available technologies, costs and environmental impact.

</td></tr><tr><td width="187">11.30 – 11.45 </td><td width="437">Break </td></tr><tr><td width="187">11.45 – 12.45 </td><td width="437">Continuation of Session I</td></tr><tr><td width="187">12.45 – 13.00 </td><td width="437">Concluding remarks by the Co-chairs </td></tr><tr><td width="187">13.00 – 15.00 </td><td width="437">Break for Lunch </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="187">15.00 – 16.30 </td><td width="437">Session IICo-operative Structures for Stockpile Destruction Moderator: Ret. Gen. Gordon Reay, Advisor Mine Action Team, MFA of Canada </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="187">
</td><td width="437">Items to be discussed:

financial and technical assistance – bilateral, multilateral and regional approaches to stockpile destruction;
logistical, technical and financial considerations for proposed co-operative structures;
linking donors and recipients, funding for stockpile destruction;
modalities of transfer and storage of foreign stockpiles;
avoiding competition among the various branches and actors of mine action.

</td></tr><tr><td width="187">16.30 – 16.45 </td><td width="437">Coffee break </td></tr><tr><td width="187">16.45 – 17.45 </td><td width="437">Continuation of Session II</td></tr><tr><td width="187">17.45 – 18.00 </td><td width="437">Concluding remarks by the Co-chairs </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="187">18.30 </td><td width="437">Reception hosted by the Director of the GICHD Restaurant Vieux-Bois, Avenue de la Paix 12, Geneva</td></tr><tr><td width="187">
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</td></tr><tr><td width="187"> Tuesday, May 23, 2000</td><td width="437">
</td></tr><tr><td width="187">09.30 – 10.00 </td><td width="437">Arrival of participants, coffee and croissants served </td></tr><tr><td width="187">10.00 – 10.30 </td><td width="437">Introductory remarks by the Co-chairs </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="187">10.30 – 11.30 </td><td width="437">Session IIICase Studies Moderator: Mr. Patrick Blagden, Technical Director, GICHD </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="187">
</td><td width="437">Items to be discussed:

merits and constraints of various methods of destruction as experienced by individual countries;
financial, technical, social and environmental considerations;
planning and implementation of the process leading up to the actual destruction of stockpiles;
engaging the media and the public at large in the process of stockpile destruction

</td></tr><tr><td width="187">11.30 – 11.45 </td><td width="437">Break </td></tr><tr><td width="187">11.45 – 12.45 </td><td width="437">Continuation of Session III</td></tr><tr><td width="187">12.45 – 13.00 </td><td width="437">Concluding remarks by the Co-chairs </td></tr><tr><td width="187">13.00 – 15.00 </td><td width="437">Break for Lunch </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="187">15.00 – 16.30 </td><td width="437">Session IV – The Way Ahead Moderator: Hungarian Co-chair </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="187">
</td><td width="437">Items to be discussed:

reporting, monitoring and compliance concerns
need for accounting and certification procedures;
assessing overall progress with regard to stockpile destruction, progress report on global stockpiles and their destruction;
compilation of databases on donors, recipients, needs, methods, options, companies, experts;
possible mechanisms for monitoring and evaluating Article 7 reports;
possible mechanisms for engaging non-States Parties in reducing their stockpiles;