To the Pugwash Community

56th Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs:
A Region in Transition: Peace and Reform in the Middle East
Cairo, Egypt, 11-15 November 2006
CONFERENCE STATEMENT of the Pugwash Council (in English and Arabic)
MESSAGES OF WELCOME:Mohamed Kadry Said and M.S. Swaminathan
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE AND WORKING GROUPS
OPENING SPEECH: H.E. Ahmed Aboul Gheit,Minister of Foreign Affairs
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: AmrMousa, Secretary General, League of Arab States
Prospects of Peace, Change and Regional Cooperation in the Middle East
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS, M.S. Swaminathan
56TH PUGWASH CONFERENCE WORKING GROUP REPORTS
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

REPORTS ON RECENT PUGWASH WORKSHOPS

Pugwash meeting no. 319
3rd Bariloche Regional Pugwash Workshop
Bariloche, Argentina, 26-27 May 2006

Pugwash Meeting no. 321
Pugwash Netherlands Workshop on New Challenges to Human Security:
Wageningen, Netherlands, 16-18 June 2006

Pugwash Meeting no. 323
25th Workshop of the Pugwash Study Group on the Implementation
of the Chemical and Biological Weapons Conventions:
Towards a Successful Outcome for the Sixth Review Conference
Geneva, Switzerland, 18-19 November 2006

SPECIAL SECTION
Islam and the West: The Sacred Realm—Domain of New Threats and Challenges
By Bas de Gaay Fortman, from the 56th Pugwash Conference, Cairo, Egypt