PROGRAMME
FOR THE NORWEGIAN ATLANTIC COMMITTEE'S
41TH ANNUAL LEANGKOLLEN CONFERENCE
30 -31 JANUARY 2006



Monday 30 January at 10:00 sharp:

The opening of the conference will as in previous years take place at the Norwegian Nobel Institute, Drammensveien 19. Speakers at the opening are:

· Alv Jakob Fostervoll, Chairman of the Norwegian Atlantic Committee,
Words of welcome.

·Jonas Gahr Støre, The Norwegian Foreign Minister, will speak about:
“Old Recipies in A New World? The Challenges of Multilateralsim in the 21st Century”

·Sir Frank Berman, British expert on International Law, will speak about:
“The role of international law for the maintenance of peace and security. The UN Charter and
the use of force”


There will be a Q&A session after the two lectures.

11:30
The participants will travel to the Leangkollen Conference Centre in Asker

(Bleikeråsen 215, 1370 Asker). Buses will be available for those who have requested transportation.

A buffet lunch will be served upon arrival, before the conference continues at 13:15.

13:15-16:15

A panel of four speakers will address:

“The reform of the major international security policy actors; the UN, OSCE, NATO and the EU, and the cooperation between them.”

The four panelists are:

·Espen Barth Eide, State Secretary at the Ministry of Defence, will speak about: “UN reform”

·Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, Secretary General of the OSCE, will speak about: “OSCE reform”

·Kai Eide, Ambassador, Norway’s Permanent Rep. to NATO, will speak about: “NATO reform”



Dr Fraser Cameron, Senior Advisor, European Policy Centre, Brussels, will speak about: “EU reform”

The session will finish at 16:15, after which the bus will return to Oslo at 16:30.



Tirsdag 31. Januar

08:00: Buss til Leangkollen avgang fra Oslo Rådhus (Fridtjof Nansens plass)

08:30-10:00

Øyvind Nordsletten, Norges ambassadør til Russland:
“Det norsk-russiske forhold. Utfordringer og perspektiver, med særlig fokus på nordområdene”

Foredraget etterfølges av en paneldiskusjon med Nils Morten Udgaard, Aftenposten og Arild Moe, FNI.

10:30-12:30

Odd Einar Olsen, professorstipendiat og Espen Reiss Mathiesen, universitetslektor,Institutt for medie-, kultur- og samfunnsfag ved Universitetet i Stavanger, vil drøfte:
“Under hvilke rammebetingelser arbeider krisehåndterere og journalister i en krisesituasjon”

Paneldiskusjon med Henrik Thune, NUPI, Carsten Rønnfeldt, Krigsskolen og Bengt Andersson, FOI.

12:30-13:25

Lunsj

13:30

Buss fra Leangkollen til Oslo Rådhus (Fridtjof Nansens plass)