Space Weapons Ban
Space Weapons Ban - How Can It Be Achieved?
Program, June 10
Morning session
Moderated by Regina Hagen (INESAP)
9:30 – 10:00
Welcome and workshop introduction
Jürgen Scheffran (INESAP, Darmstadt/Berlin)
Götz Neuneck (VDW, Hamburg)
10:00 - 10:30
Peaceful Use and Common Security in Outer Space
10:30 - 11:00
Peaceful Use of Outer Space – Obstacles and Challenges
Wulf von Kries (German Space Agency, Köln, Germany)
11:00 – 11:30
The Link Between Missile Defense and Space Weaponization
Ivan Safranchuk (Center for Defense Information, Moscow, Russia)
Coffee break
12:00 – 13:15
Possible Elements of the Future International Legal Instruments on PAROS
Joint Working Paper of China and Russia, to be introduced at the Conference on Disarmament in June 2002
presented by Fu Zhiang (Permanent Mission of the People’s Republic of China to the UN Office at Geneva)
Commentary: Bernd Kubbig (Frankfurt Peace Research Institute, Germany)
Lunch break
Afternoon session
Moderated by Clifford Singer (ACDIS)
14:15 – 15:30
Space Preservation Act of 2002
introduced at the US House of Congress in Jan. 2002
written statement of Dennis Kucinich (US Congressman, Washington, USA)
World Space Treaty
companion to the Space Preservation Act of 2002
presented by Carol Rosin (Institute for Cooperation in Space, Ventura, USA)
Commentary: Ian Kenyon (Mountbatten Centre for International Studies, Southampton, UK)
Coffee break
16:00 – 17:15
Proposed Treaty on the Limitation of the Military Use of Outer Space
drafted by German scientists in 1984
presented by Jürgen Scheffran (INESAP)
Commentary: Jürgen Altmann (NaturwissenschaftlerInnen-Initiative, Bochum/Düsseldorf, Germany)
17:15 – 17:45
PAROS Impasse at Geneva – Is There a Solution?
Clifford Singer (ACDIS, University of Maryland, Champaign/Illinois, USA)
17:45 – 18:00
Wrap-up