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Saturday Morning, 5 March 2005
Location: Main Conference Hall              930-1130

0900-0930      Registration

0930-0935      Recitation of the Holy Koran

0935-0945      Opening Remarks: Mahmood Vaezi,
                        President of the Conference and Deputy Director of Foreign Policy and
                        International Relations Department, CSR, Iran

                        Keynote Speakers:

945-1025                 Hassan Rouhani,
                        Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council and
                        Vice-Chairman of the CSR, Iran

1025-1045             Gholamreza Aghazadeh
                        Vice-president and Director of the AEOI

1045-1100             Noredin Ben Jaballah
                        Head of the Algerian Atomic Energy Commission

1100-1115             Daud Mohamed
                        Director General of the Malaysian Institute of Nuclear, Malaysia

1115-1130      Sergey Babourin,
                        Deputy Speaker of the Russian State Duma, Russia

1130-1330             Lunch

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Saturday Afternoon, 5 March 2005
Location: Conference Room, 9^th Floor                        1330-1530

Parallel Specialized Session:
Nuclear Energy and Sustainable Development

Chair: Mohammed Saeidi, the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI)

1330-1400       Amir Hossein Ghorashi, AEOI
                        Prospects of Nuclear Power Plants for Sustainable Energy Development in the IRI

1400-1420             Andre Maisseu, WONUC, France
                        The Unquestionable Answer for Sustainable Development: The Use of Nuclear Energy

1420-1440             Ali Pazirandeh, University Lecturer, Iran
                        Nuclear Technology Development and the Role of Research Reactors

1440-1530       Panel Discussion

1530-1600             Coffee Break

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Saturday Afternoon, 5 March 2005
Location: Main Conference Hall                        1330-1530

Parallel Specialized Session:
The Policies of the Great Powers and International Nuclear Treaties

Chair: Sirus Nasseri, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Iran

1330-1345       M. Mehdi Akhoundzadeh, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Iran
                        The Commitment of Nuclear Weapon States to Disarmament

1345-1400       Steven Miller, Harvard University
                        US Nuclear Policy and International Law

1400-1415      Abumohammed Asgarkhani, Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Tehran, Iran
                        The United States and Nuclear Committments

1415-1430      Shannon Kile, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Sweden
                        NPT and Nuclear Disarmament

1430-1445      Joseph Cirincione, Director of Non-Proliferation, Carnegie Endowment
                        for International Peace, USA
                        A New Non-Proliferation Strategy

1445-1500      Anton Khlopkov, Vice Chairman of PIR Center, Russia
                        Russian Approach to the Future of the International Non-Proliferation Regimes

1500-1530      Panel Discussion

1530-1600      Coffee Break

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Saturday Afternoon, 5 March 2005
Location: Main Conference Hall                        1600-1800

Plenary Session:
Iran’s Peaceful Nuclear Program: Requirements and Imperativers

Chair: Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Iran

1600-1620      Asadullah Sabouri, AEOI
                        Iran’s Nuclear Power Program

1620-1640             Mohammed Ghannadi, AEOI
                        Iran’s Nuclear Fuel Cycle

1640-1700            S. Mahmood Reza Aghamiri, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran
                        Nuclear Iran: Needs and Imperatives

1700-1800      Roundtable
                        Saeidi, Sabouri, Maisseu, Ghannadi, Aghamiri, Ghorashi, Soltanieh       

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Sunday Morning, 6 March 2005
Location: Conference Room, 9^th Floor                        830-1015

Parallel Specialized Session:
Application of Nuclear Technology in Medicine, Industry, and Agriculture (Part I)

Chair: Hossein Ghorashi, The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI)

0830-0900      Vahid Ahmadi, AEOI
                       Present and Future Activities of the AEOI Research and Technology Department

0900-0920      Khairul Zaman, Director of Radiation Processing Technology Division,
                        Malaysian Nuclear Technology Institute (MINT), Malaysia
                        Radiation Processing from Laboratory to the Market: Malaysian Experience

0920-0950      Hossein Ghafourian, AEOI
                        Research Activities in Nuclear Research Center

0950-1015      Maurizio Dondi, Head of Nuclear medicine Section, IAEA
                        Application of Nuclear Technology to Medicine

1015-1045       Coffee Break

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Sunday Morning, 6 March 2005
Location: Main Conference Hall                        830-1015

Parallel Specialized Session:
International Peace and Security: Challenges and Threats

Chair: Mostafa Zahrani, Director General of the IPIS, Iran

0830-0840       Nasser Saghafi Ameri, CSR, Iran
                        NPT and New International Security Envrionment

0840-0850      George Perkovich, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, USA
                        Nuclear Non-Proliferation

0850-0900       M.K. Sajjadpour, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Iran
                        American Securitization and Ideologization of Iranian Nuclear Activities:
                        Its Implications for International Peace and Security.

0900-0910       Paolo Cotta-Ramusino, Secretary-General of Pugwash, Italy
                        Pugwash and the Nuclear Issues

0910-0920      G.A. Cheginizadeh, CSR, Iran
                        Iranian Nuclear Activities: An International Opportunity

0920-930        Gary Samore, Director of Studies and Senior Fellow for Non-proliferation, IISS, UK
                        Prospects for the EU 3-Iran Negotiations

930-1015                  Panel Discussion

1015-1046       Coffee Break

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Sunday Morning, 6 March 2005
Location: Conference Room, 9^th Floor                        1045-1230

Parallel Specialized Session:
Application of Nuclear Technology in Medicine, Industry, and Agriculture (Part II)

Chair: Amir H. Ghafourian, The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI)

1045-1105       Seyyed Hossein Hosseini, AEOI
                        The Status and Progress of the Iranian New Research Reactor (IR40)

1105-1125       Farit Tukhvetov, WANO Moscow Center, Russia
                        WANO’s Role in the Nuclear Power Plant Safety Enhancement

1125-1145      Manouchehr Madadi, AEOI
                        Factors Affecting the Process of Selection and Design of the
                        Arak Heavy Water Production Plant

1145-1230      Roundtable
                        Ahmadi, Khairul Zaman, Ghafourian, Hosseini, Tukhvetov, Madadi

1230-1400              Lunch

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Sunday Morning, 6 March 2005
Location: Main Conference Hall                        1045-1230

Parallel Specialized Session:
The Middle East and Nuclear Threats

Chair: Hossein Mousavian, The Surpeme National Security Council, Iran

1045-1055      Saideh Lotfian, Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Tehran, Iran
                       Nuew Nuclear Threats in the Middle East

1055-1105      Jeffrey Boutwell, Exectutive Director of Pugwash Conferences on Science
                        and World Affairs, USA
                        A NWFZS in the Middle East

1105-1115      John Chipman, Director of the International Institute of Strategic Studies, UK
                        Iranian Nuclear Activities: Reflections of the Outside World and the Persian Gulf

1115-1125      Bakhtiyar Mirkasymov, Head of Asia and Pacific Department, Institute for
                        Strategic Studies, Russia
                        Middle East Nuclear Free Zone: A Russian Perspective

1125-1135       Nasser Hadian, Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Tehran, Iran       
                        Iranian Perspectives on the Nuclear Program

1135-1145       Peter Jones, Center for International Studies, University of Toronto, Canada
                        A WMDFZ in the Middle East: Policy Agenda for a New Regional Security System

1145-1155      Mustafa Kibaroglu, Bilkent University, Turkey
                        Uses and Misuses of the Article 4 of the NPT: A Turkish Perspective

1155-1230       Panel Discussion

1230-1400       Lunch

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Sunday Afternoon, 6 March 2005
Location: Main Conference Hall                        1400-1600

Plenary Session:
Iran’s Nuclear Diplomacy, Challenges and Opportunities

Chair: M.R. Alborzi, Iranian Ambassador at the UN, Geneva

1400-1410      Hossein Mousavian, the Surpeme National Security Council, Iran
                        Challenges and Opportunities in Iran’s Nuclear Program

1410-1420      Philip Erera, French Foreign Ministry
                        Iran-EU Nuclear Negotiations

1420-1430      A. Zamaninia, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Iran
                        The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Nuclear Diplomacy

1430-1440      C.A. Kupchan, the Nixon Center
                        The US Approach toward Iran-EU Nuclear Negotiations

1440-1450       R. Salehi Amiri, CSS, Iran
                        Iran’s Nuclear Diplomacy

1450-1500       M. Martellini, Secretary General, LNCV, Italy
                        On the Iranian Nuclear Issue: Facts and Recommendations

1500-1510       A. Soltanieh, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Iran
                        Interactions between Iran and the IAEA

1510-1600       Panel Discussion

1600-1630       Coffee Break

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Sunday Afternoon, 6 March 2005
Location: Main Conference Hall                        1630-1800

Concluding Plenary Session:

Chair: Mahmood Vaezi
President of the Conference and Deputy Director of Foreign Policy and International Relations Department, CSR, Iran

1630-1645      Address by Kamal Kharrazi, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1645-1705      Address by Ala’eddin Boroujerdi, Head of the National Security and
                        Foreign Policy Committee in the Iranian Parliament

1705-1715      Report of the Sessions on Peaceful Use of Nuclear Technology and Sustainable
                        Development by Mohammed Saaedi

1715-1725      Report of the Sessions on Nuclear Disarmament, Regional Security and
                        Global Peace by M. Reza Alborzi

1725-              Closing Remarks by Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani,
                        Chairman of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Expediency Council