Conference of the International Luxembourg Forum "30th anniversary of the Reykjavik Summit – lessons of the past and the tasks for the future"
Amsterdam, -
- Agenda
- List of participants
- Press-release
- Documents
- Agenda
- List of participants
- Press-release
- Documents
June 7 (Tuesday)
10:00 – 10:30 – Opening of the Conference
Chairman – Vladimir Dvorkin, Chairman, Organizing Committee, International Luxembourg Forum, Professor (Russia)
Viatcheslav Kantor, President, International Luxembourg Forum, Ph.D. (Russia)
10:30 – 12:30 – First Session
Reykjavik Summit – lessons of the past and tasks for the future
Chairman – Vladimir Dvorkin, Chairman, Organizing Committee, International Luxembourgм Forum, Professor (Russia)
William Perry, Member, Supervisory Board, International Luxembourg Forum; Professor, Stanford University (USA).
Аnatoly Adamishin, President Emeritus, Association of Euro-Atlantic Cooperation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the USSR and RF (Russia).
Yury Nazarkin, Professor, Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the USSR and RF (Russia).
Michael Krepon, Co-founder, the Henry L. Stimson Center (USA).
Discussion
13:30 – 14:15 Press conference
14:15 – 16:00 Second session
Resuming negotiations on follow-on reductions of strategic arms
Chairman – Michael Krepon, Co-founder, the Henry L. Stimson Center (USA).
Аlexey Arbatov, Deputy Chairman, Organizing Committee, International Luxembourg Forum, Academician RAS (Russia).
Des Browne, Member of the Supervisory Board, International Luxembourg Forum; Vice Chairman and Member of the Board of Directors, Nuclear Threat Initiative (Great Britain).
Victor Esin, Leading Researcher, Institute for USA and Canada Studies RAS, Colonel General, ret. (Russia).
16:00 – 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 – 18:00 Third session
Eliminating the risk of accidental or mistaken launch of missiles
Chairman – Sergey Oznobishchev, Deputy Chairman, Organizing Committee, International Luxembourg Forum; Professor, MGIMO MFA (Russia).
Vladimir Dvorkin, Chairman, Organizing Committee, International Luxembourg Forum; Professor (Russia).
James D. Cartwright, Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS, General, ret. (USA).
Resuming negotiations on measures to ensure security of weapons of mass destruction Anatoly Diyakov, Researcher, Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies (Russia).
Leon Ratz, Senior Advisor, Nuclear Threat Initiative (USA).
Discussion
June 8 (Wednesday)
9:00 – 13:00 – Fourth session
Approval of the final document
Chairman – Аlexey Arbatov, Deputy Chairman, Organizing Committee, International Luxembourg Forum, Academician RAS (Russia).
Participants | ||
1. | Viatcheslav | President, International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe, Ph.D. (Russia). |
2. | Anatoly | President Emeritus, Association for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentionary of the USSR and RF ret., (former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, RF Minister for cooperation with CIS countries, Vice-President, AFK "Systema") (Russia). |
3. | Alexey | Deputy Chairman, Organizing Committee, International Luxembourg Forum; Member of Board of Directors, Nuclear Threat Initiative; Head of the Center for International Security, Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS); Scholar-in-Residence of the Carnegie Moscow Center (former Deputy Chairman of the Defense Committee, State Duma, Federal Assembly – Russian Parliament); Academician (RAS, Russia), Member of the Directorate, Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO). |
4. | Des | Vice-President, Nuclear Threat Initiative, Founder and a Current Member of the Top Level Group of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, Member of the Supervisory Board of the International Luxembourg Forum (former Chair of the Executive Board, European Leadership Network for Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation; Secretary of State for Defense; Secretary of State for Scotland; Member of Parliament), Lord of Ladyton (Great Britain). |
5. | James D. | Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies Center for Strategic and International Studies, General (USMC, ret)(USA). |
6. | Vladimir | Chairman, Organizing Committee, International Luxembourg Forum; Principal Researcher, Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), RAS (former Director, the 4th Major Institute of the Ministry of Defense); Professor; Full Member of the Academy of Military Sciences and the Russian Academy of Austronautics named after K.E.Tsiolkovsky; Major General, ret. (Russia). |
7. | Anatoly | Researcher (former Director), Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies (Russia). |
8. | Viktor | Leading Researcher, Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies RAS (former Chief of Armed Service Staff – First Deputy Commander-In-Chief, Strategic Rocket Forces); First Vice-President, Academy of Security, Defense and Law and Order, Colonel General, ret. (Russia). |
9. | Michael | Co-founder of the Henry L. Stimson Center (USA). |
10. | Vladimir | Member of the Supervisory Board of the International Luxembourg Forum, Professor of the National Research University – Higher School of Economics (former Chairman of the Committee on International Relations and Deputy Chairman of the State Duma, Russian Federation; Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United States of America; Commissioner on Human Rights for the Russian Federation) (Russia). |
11. | Yury | Professor, Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentionary of the USSR and RF, ret.; (former USSR Representative at the Conference on Disarmament, Head of the USSR delegation at the USSR-US Nuclear and Space Talks (START-1), Special Envoy, Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council in 1993-1995) (Russia). |
12. | Sergey | Deputy Chairman, Organizing Committee, International Luxembourg Forum; Head of the Division, Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), RAS; Director, Institute for Strategic Assessments; Professor of MGIMO (University), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia; Full Member of the Russian Academy of Austronautics named after K.E.Tsiolkovsky (former Chief of the Organizational Analytic Division, RAS), Ph.D. (Russia). |
13. | William | Professor, Stanford University, Member of the Supervisory Board of the International Luxembourg Forum (former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Defense), Ph.D. (USA). |
14. | Leon | Senior Advisor to the Vice President for Material Security and Minimization,Nuclear Threat Initiative (USA). |
15. | Tariq | Director, Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (former Head, Verification and Security Policy Cooperation at the IAEA, Coordinator, Multilateral Approaches to the Nuclear Fuel Cycle, IAEA); Ph.D. (Canada). |
Observer | ||
16. | Maria | Consultant, Organizing Committee, International Luxembourg Forum (Russia). |
Experts of the International Luxembourg Forum are focusing on key issues in global nuclear security
The International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe has conducted a conference titled “The 30th anniversary of the Reykjavik Summit – lessons of the past and tasks for the future” in Amsterdam on June 7-8, 2016.
In his opening statement Viatcheslav Kantor, President of the International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe, has underscored that the current situation demands that political leaders take immediate actions.
The Conference of the International Luxembourg Forum has brought together both eyewitnesses of the historic 1986 meeting in the capital of Iceland and leading nuclear security experts of today.
In his address to the conference participants President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev has compared the current political situation with the events thirty years ago, pointing out that “the window to a nuclear-free world, first opened in Reykjavik, is being shut and locked before our eyes.”
Mikhail Gorbachev believes that movement toward a nuclear-free world is become increasingly more difficult: “New types of nuclear weapons are being created. Their qualitative specifications are expanding. Missile defense systems are being deployed. ‘Prompt conventional strike’ capabilities, which compare to weapons of mass destruction in terms of the risks they present, are being developed. The nuclear powers’ military doctrines have been changed for the worse. They expand the “acceptable bounds” of the use of nuclear weapons. The danger of nuclear weapons proliferation has grown to a large extent for this reason.”
In his presentation the President of the International Luxembourg Forum, Viatcheslav Kantor,has also identified resumption of US-Russian nuclear-policy relations as the highest priority. This will make it possible to commence efforts to resolve the disagreements over ballistic missile defense and precision-guided conventional strategic weapons, as well non-strategic nuclear arms control.
“Today we find ourselves in a race between cooperation and catastrophe. Consequently, leaders must begin this work immediately. Because of growing tensions across the globe, renewed and enhanced dialogue is essential. No security architecture, no set of rules, no efforts to negotiate or implement agreements can succeed without leaders who are committed to addressing core issues and who are willing to cooperate. It is their obligation as leaders to work together to build a safer world for all our citizens” - declared Viatcheslav Kantor.
Among the most pressing issues in nuclear security Viatcheslav Kantorlisted the need to develop measures to avoid the risk of accidental or erroneous missile launches and to extend the timeframes for decisions to launch strategic missiles, cooperation on nuclear materials’ security in order to prevent terrorism with catastrophic consequences, resolution of the disagreements over ballistic missile defense and precision-guided conventional strategic weapons, as well strategic and non-strategic nuclear arms control.
In keeping with the Forum’s tradition, the Conference will produce a final document outlining its key conclusions and recommendations, which will be sent to heads of state, officials and heads of authoritative international organizations.
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The International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophewas established by decision of the International Conference on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe, held 24-25 May 2007 in Luxembourg. The Advisory Council comprises 49 of the most authoritative and best-known international experts from 14 different countries.
The Forum is one of the most representative non-governmental organizations to bring together leading international experts in the field of non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and arms reduction and limitation. The President of the Forum is Viatcheslav Kantor. The main bodies of the Forum are: the International Advisory Council and the Supervisory Council.
The main tasks of the Forum are to analyze threats of proliferation of nuclear weaponry and to draw up specific proposals and recommendations as to further ways of reducing nuclear weapons, strengthening nuclear and missile non-proliferation regimes, preventing attempts to acquire nuclear weapons and technologies by unstable regimes and terrorist organizations and of resolving regional nuclear crises.
The Soviet-American Summit– a meeting between the leaders of the USSR and USA, Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan - took place in October 1986 in Reykjavik (Iceland) and became the most important milestone in the process of the Soviet-American negotiations on strategic offensive arms.