October, 12, Wednesday

International Conference for a Nuclear Weapon-Free World
(Astana, Palace of Independence)

9.00 – 9.30	Registration
09.50 - 10.00	Documentary film «Kazakhstan for a Nuclear Weapon-Free World»
10.00 – 10.05	Opening of the Conference Welcome address by the Secretary of State H.E.Mr.Kanat Saudabayev
10.05 – 10.15	Statement by the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan H.E. Mr. Nursultan Nazarbayev
10.15 – 10.20	Video message of the UN Secretary General Mr.Ban Ki-Moon (eng | kaz | rus)
10.20 – 10.30	Address of the U.S. President H.E. Mr. Barack Obama (eng | kaz | rus) and short statement by Mr. Daniel Poneman, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy (eng)
10.30 – 10.40	Statement by H.E. Mr. Yukiya Amano, IAEA Director General (eng)
10.40 – 10.50	Statement by H.E. Mr. Tibor Toth, Executive Secretary of Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) (eng)
10.50 – 11.00	Statement by Honorable Eni Faleomavaega, Member of Congress (USA) (eng)
11.30 – 13.00	Panel Session 1 (Hall №2 for panel sessions) Theme: Achieving a Nuclear Weapon-Free World Moderator: Sverre Lodgaard, former Head of United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) Panelists take their seats in a presidium Speeches (5 minutes): Mr. Muratbek Imanaliyev, Secretary General, Shanghai Cooperation Organization Mr.Vladimir Garkun, CIS Executive Committee Lord John D.A. Waverley, Member of the House of Lords, UK Parliament (eng) H.E. Mrs.Yoriko Kawaguchi, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Co-Chairman of International Non-proliferation Commission (Japan) Mr.Sam Brownback, Governor, State of Kansas, USA Mr. Tomihisa Taue, Mayor of Nagasaki (Japan) (eng) Mr.Vladimir Orlov, President, Center of Political Studies, Russia Mr.Jonathan Granoff, President, Global Security Institute (USA) Open discussion
12.30 – 13.00	Press-conference of Mr. Kanat Saudabayev, Mr. Yukiya Amano, Mr. Daniel Ponemann, Mr. Tibor Toth (press-center)
13.00 – 14.00	Lunch
14.00 – 15.30	Panel Session 2 Theme: Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty – role of governments and society in early entry into force of the Treaty Moderator: Tibor Toth, Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) Speeches (5 minutes): Mrs.Rose Gottemoeller, Assistant Secretary of State (USA) Mr.Morten Hoglund, Member of Parliament (Norway) (eng) Mr.Hiroshi Kawauchi, Member of Parliament (Japan) Mr.Naokazu Takemoto, Member of Parliament (Japan) Mr.Christoph Eichhorn, Special Representative of the Government on Non-Proliferation issues (Germany) Mr.Aymeri de Montesquiou, Member of Senate (France) Mr.Аlyn Ware, Secretary General of the Organization "Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament" Mr. Jan Breyne, Deputy Mayor of Ypres (Belgium) (eng) Mr.Paul Walker, Green Peace (USA) Open discussion
15.30 – 16.00	Coffee-break
16.00 – 17.30	Panel Session 3 Theme: Creation of nuclear weapon-free zones: problems and perspectives Moderator: William Potter, Director of Center for Non-proliferation Studies (USA) Speeches (5 minutes): Mr.Miroslav Jenca, UN Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia Mr.Chinar Aldemir, Executive Director, Secretariat of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) Mr.William H. Courtney, Former US Ambassador to Kazakhstan Mr.Тsutomi Ishiguri, Former Director of UN Non-proliferation and disarmament Center in Asia and Pacific (Japan) Mr.Bulat Sultanov, Director of the Center for Strategic Studies (Kazakhstan) Mr.Nobuyasu Abe, Director of Non-Proliferation Center (Japan) Open discussion
17.30 – 18.30	Closing of the Conference Moderators sum up panel sessions Closing remarks by H.E. Mr.Yerzhan Kazykhanov, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan Adoption of Astana Declaration

October, 13, Thursday

International Conference for a Nuclear Weapon-Free World
Departure for Semey

8.00	Buses leave hotels to airport
9.00 – 10.10	Departure of the charter flight from Astana
10.10	Arrival to Semey
	Group #1 - Departure for Kurchatov
10.20 – 11.00	Flight to Kurchatov by helicopters
11.00 – 11.30	Visiting National Nuclear Centre - documentary film - visiting museum of STS (Semey Testing Site)
11.30 – 11.35	Transfer
11.35 – 11.45	Visiting JSC «Park of Nuclear Technologies» - tour of manufacture stands
11.45 - 11.50	Transfer
11.50 – 12.00	Visiting Reactor «Tokamak» (thermonuclear reactor for materials studying)
12.00 – 12.35	Flight to Semey Testing Site - visiting Ground Zero
12.35 – 12.55	Statements for the press: H.E. Mr Yukiya Amano, IAEA Director General H.E. Mr. Tibor Toth, Executive Secretary of Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) H.E.Mr. Yerzhan Kazykhanov, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan
13.35 – 14.15	Flight to Semey
14.15 – 14.25	Transfer
14.25 – 15.55	Lunch
15.55 – 16.05	Transfer
16.05 – 17.20	Participation in the public meeting, dedicated to the 20th anniversary of closing the STS
17.30 – 17.50	Departure to the airport
18.00	Flight to Astana
	Group № 2 in Semey
10.20 – 10.30	Transfer
10.30 – 11.10	Visiting State Medical University
11.10 – 11.20	Transfer
11.20 – 11.40	Visiting Regional Oncologic Dispensary
11.40 – 11.50	Transfer
11.50 – 12.10	Visiting Scientific Research Institute of Radiation Medicine and Ecology
12.10 – 12.20	Transfer
12.20 – 13.00	Visiting Museum named after Nevzorov's family
13.00 – 13.10	Transfer
13.10 – 15.00	Lunch
15.00 – 15.10	Transfer
15.10 – 15.30	Visiting exhibition of nomad tents (yurts) (Ethnographic Museum exhibits)
15.30 – 16.05	Concert
16.05 – 17.20	Participation in the public meeting, dedicated to the 20th anniversary of closing the STS
17.20 – 17.45	Departure to the airport
18.00	Flight to Astana
	Group № 3 in Semey
10.20 – 10.30	Transfer
10.30 – 11.10	Visiting State Medical University
11.10 – 11.20	Transfer
11.20 – 12.00	Visiting Museum named after Nevzorov's family
12.00 – 12.10	Transfer
12.10 – 12.30	Visiting Regional Oncologic Dispensary
12.30 – 12.40	Transfer
12.40 – 13.00	Visiting Scientific Research Institute of Radiation Medicine and Ecology
13.00 – 13.10	Transfer
13.10 – 15.00	Lunch
15.00 – 15.10	Transfer
15.10 – 15.30	Visiting exhibition of nomad tents (yurts) (Ethnographic Museum exhibits)
15.30 – 16.05	Concert
16.05 – 17.30	Participation in the public meeting, dedicated to the 20th anniversary of closing the STS
17.20 – 17.45	Departure to the airport
18.00	Flight to Astana