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1 Agenda Saturday, February 7 MSC 2015 February 6-8

2 Saturday: February 7, a.m. Women s Breakfast hosted by the Bavarian a.m. State Government and the Hanns Seidel Foundation Prinz Carl Palais (for all female participants) a.m. Presentation a.m. The Elders Initiative on Strengthening the United Nations Hotel Bayerischer Hof, Conference Hall Dr. Martti Ahtisaari Former President of the Republic of Finland; Nobel Peace Prize Laureate; Member, The Elders, Helsinki Graca Machel Member, The Elders, London Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland Former Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Norway; Deputy Chair, The Elders, Oslo Kofi Annan Former Secretary General of the United Nations; Noble Peace Prize Laureate; Chairman, Kofi Annan Foundation, Geneva Please respect the times mentioned. Doors will close immediately after the beginning of the session. Please be aware that a restrictive access policy for observers will be in place on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. 2

3 09.15 a.m. Panel Discussion a.m. The World in 2015: Collapsing Order, Reluctant Guardians? Hotel Bayerischer Hof, Conference Hall Martin Schulz President, European Parliament, Brussels Jan Eliasson Deputy Secretary General, United Nations, New York, NY George Soros Founder and Chairman, Open Society Foundations; Chairman, Soros Fund Management LLC, New York, NY Dr. Kumi Naidoo Executive Director, Greenpeace International, Amsterdam Moderator: Dr. Ian Bremmer President and Founder, Eurasia Group, New York, NY 3

4 10.30 a.m. Statement and Discussion a.m. Hotel Bayerischer Hof, Conference Hall Dr. Angela Merkel Federal Chancellor, Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin Moderator: Wolfgang Ischinger Ambassador, Chairman of the Munich Security Conference, Munich a.m. Coffee Break a.m. Hotel Bayerischer Hof, Cocktail Lounge and Atrium a.m. Statement and Discussion p.m. Hotel Bayerischer Hof, Conference Hall Sergey V. Lavrov Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation, Moscow Moderator: Wolfgang Ischinger Ambassador, Chairman of the Munich Security Conference, Munich 4

5 12.20 p.m. Parliamentary Debate p.m. The Conflict over Ukraine and European Security Hotel Bayerischer Hof, Conference Hall Lindsey Graham Senator, Member of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, United States of America, Washington, D.C. Radosław Sikorski Marshal of the Sejm, Republic of Poland, Warsaw Konstantin Kosachev Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Council of the Federation of the Federal Assembly, Russian Federation, Moscow Moderator: Wolfgang Ischinger Ambassador, Chairman of the Munich Security Conference, Munich p.m. Lunch Break p.m. Hotel Bayerischer Hof, Dachgarten 5

6 02.45 p.m. Statement and Discussion p.m. Hotel Bayerischer Hof, Conference Hall Joseph R. Biden Jr. Vice President, United States of America, Washington, D.C. Moderator: Wolfgang Ischinger Ambassador, Chairman of the Munich Security Conference, Munich p.m. Presidential Debate p.m. The Conflict over Ukraine and European Security Hotel Bayerischer Hof, Conference Hall Petro Poroschenko President, Ukraine, Kyiv Dr. Dalia Grybauskaitė President, Republic of Lithuania, Vilnius Rosen Plevneliev President, Republic of Bulgaria, Sofia Sauli Niinistö President, Republic of Finland, Helsinki Moderator: Jane Harman Director, President and Chief Executive Officer, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Member of the Advisory Council, Munich Security Conference, Washington, D.C. 6

7 04.45 p.m. Coffee Break p.m. Hotel Bayerischer Hof, Cocktail Lounge and Atrium p.m. Are we Losing the War on Terror? p.m. Hotel Bayerischer Hof, Conference Hall Moderator: Georg Mascolo Journalist; Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, Hamburg p.m. A View from Iraq p.m. Dr. Haider Al-Abadi Prime Minister, Republic of Iraq, Baghdad p.m. Panel Discussion p.m. Élisabeth Guigou President of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Assemblée Nationale, French Republic, Paris Ajit Kumar Doval National Security Advisor, Republic of India, New Delhi David Stulb Global Leader of Fraud Investigation and Dispute Services, Ernst & Young Global Limited, London 7

8 Sameh Hassan Shoukry Minister of Foreign Affairs, Arabic Republic of Egypt, Cairo Sheldon Whitehouse Senator, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism for the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, United States of America, Washington, D.C p.m. A View from Jerusalem p.m. Isaac Herzog Chairman of Israel Labor Party, Member of the Knesset, State of Israel, Jerusalem A View from Erbil Masoud Barzani (tbc) President, Kurdistan Regional Government, Erbil 8

9 05.15 p.m. Panel Discussion p.m. Beyond Ukraine Unresolved Conflicts in Europe Hotel Bayerischer Hof, Dachgarten Ilham Aliyev President, Republic of Azerbaijan, Baku Irakli Garibashvili Prime Minister, Georgia, Tbilisi Iurie Leancă Prime Minister, Republic of Moldova, Chişinău Aleksandar Vučić Prime Minister, Republic of Serbia, Belgrade Chairman and Moderator: Borut Pahor President, Republic of Slovenia, Ljubljana p.m. State Dinner hosted by the Minister-President p.m. of the Free State of Bavaria Presentation of the Ewald von Kleist Award Munich Residenz (by special invitation only) p.m. Traditional Bavarian Dinner hosted by the p.m. MSC Palaiskeller 9

10 10.30 p.m. Night Cap a.m. Information Warfare Hotel Bayerischer Hof, Night Club (off the record) Elena Chernenko Special Correspondent, Foreign Desk of Kommersant, Moscow; Munich Young Leader 2015 Toomas Hendrik Ilves President, Republic of Estonia, Tallinn Rachel Whetstone Senior Vice President Communications and Public Policy, Google Inc., Mountain View, CA Amos Gilead Director of Policy and Political Military Affairs, Ministry of Defence, State of Israel, Jerusalem Peter Pomerantsev TV Producer and Author, The Atlantic, London Moderator: Carl Bildt Former Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Sweden; Member of the Advisory Council, Munich Security Conference, Stockholm 10

11 Notes Photo Credit Cover: Koch / MSC 11

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