President Jayantha Dhanapala opens the 58th Pugwash Conference in The Hague, 17 April 2009

Paolo Cotta-Ramusino gives the Secretary General's report

Amb. Sergio Duarte (2nd from left) and Amb. Hans Blix (2nd from right) give opening presentations at the 58th Pugwash Conference, flanked by Pugwash Secretary General Paolo Cotta-Ramusino, Pugwash President Jayantha Dhanapala, and Dutch Pugwash Chair Georg Frerks.

Amb. Grigory Berdennikov of Russia (2nd from left) on Restarting US-Russian Nuclear Disarmament, with Amb. Sergei Batsanov, Paolo Cotta-Ramusino, and co-chair of US Pugwash, Dr. Lynn Eden of Stanford University

Amb. Hu Xiaodi and Sir Malcolm Rifkind

Dr. Jennifer Simons addresses the conference

Dr. William Perry gives final keynote address with Jayantha Dhapanala, H.E. Pieter de Gooijer (Netherlands Foreign Ministry) and Georg Frerks

(right to left): Amb. Wa'el Al-Assad (Arab League), State Secretary Espen Barth-Eide (Norway), Dr. Goetz Neuneck (Germany) and Amb. Reza Ziaran (Iran)

Allison Macfarlane makes a presentation on the Nuclear Energy and Climate Change panel, with
(l to r), Arthur Petersen, Bob van der Zwaan, Tatsu Suzuki and Bijan Khajepour. 

John Avery of Danish Pugwash Group asks a question during discussion of the Secretary General's report

Special address by Mr. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, The Hague

Amb. Svein Sevje, Ambassador of Norway to the Sudan

Plenary Session on Prospects for Afghanistan, with Hon. Shukria Barakzai, Member of Wolesi Jirga (Parliament) of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Prof. Paolo Cotta-Ramusino, and Amb. Robin Raphel, former US Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia

Hon. Sherry Rehman, former Federal Minister for Information, Pakistan, gives the 2009 Dorothy Hodgkin Memorial Lecture, chaired by Prof. Amitabh Mattoo (India), 20 April 2009

Amb. Rogelio Pfirter, Director General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, gives a luncheon address at the 58th Pugwash Conference, 20 April 2009

Final Plenary Session:  Conflict Resolution, Peace Building and Justice
   (Organized in cooperation with Oxfam Novib and Cordaid)

Plenary address by Hon. Ruud Lubbers (Minister of State and former Prime Minister of The Netherlands), with (left to right), Prof. Paolo Cotta-Ramusino (Secretary General of Pugwash), Sverre Lodgaard (Pugwash Council), Justice Richard Goldstone (Previous Chief Prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda), and Hon. Joris Voorhoeve (former Dutch Minister of Defense and Chair, Oxfam-Novib Netherlands)

Sverre Lodgaard, chair of final plenary

Justice Richard Goldstone

Hon. Joris Voorhoeve