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CONFERENCE ON SECURITY AND COOPERATION IN SOUTH ASIA: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
Berlin, Germany October 8-10, 2007

Monday, October 8, 2007

Welcome: Rudolf Adam, President, BAKS

Opening Remarks: Götz Neuneck – University of Hamburg, Germany

Promoting Nuclear Stability in South Asia - Subrata Ghoshroy, MIT

Prospects for Kashmir - Paolo Cotta-Ramusino, Secretary General Pugwash 

Session One: Missile Defense: The Technical Challenges   
Chair: Subrata Ghoshroy, MIT          

Status of the U.S. Missile Defense Program
– Hon. Philip Coyle, Senior Advisor, World Security Institute. USA

Technical Challenges toward Building an Operational BMD System
 – Theodore Postol, Professor, MIT

Missile Defense: A perspective from India
– Hon. V. K. Saraswat, Defense Research and Development Organization, India

Boost-phase Missile Defense: The ABL
– Jan Stupl, University of Hamburg, Germany

Session Two:  Deployment of Missile Defense Systems in Europe                                                     
Chair: Michael Brzoska, Director, IFSH, University of Hamburg

Viewpoints from:

Europe
– Alexander Bitter

USA
– Theodore Postol, MIT

Russia
– Leonid Ryabikhin, Comm. of Scientists for Global Security, Moscow

– Vladimir L. Egorov, Deputy Head of International Treaties Directorate, the Russian Ministry of Defense

Luncheon speech – “Nuclear Stability in South Asia”
Ambassador Tariq Osman Hyder, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pakistan

Session Three:  Missiles and missile defense in South Asia
Chair:  K. Santhanam, former Director, IDSA

Missile Defense in South Asia
– Ashley Tellis, Carnegie Endowment

View point of Pakistan
– Khalid Banuri, Strategic Plans Division, Pakistan

Missile System: Application and Performance
– Subir K. Chaudhuri, Defense Research & Development Organization, India

Reception at the German Foreign Ministry hosted by
Ambassador Rüdiger Lüdeking (International Club, Foreign Office)

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