BMD & Europe
ASSEMBLY OF WESTERN EUROPEAN UNION
ANTI-MISSILE DEFENCE FOR EUROPE
SYMPOSIUM
Rome, 20th-21st April 1993
Official Record
Office of the Clerk of the Assembly of WEU
PROGRAMME OF THE SYMPOSIUM
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LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
Tuesday, 20th April 1993
9.30 a.m. First sitting
Opening remarks
Mr. SOELL
President of the Assembly of Western European Union
Mr. FOSCHI
Chairman of the Italian Delegation
Mr. LOPEZ HENARES
Chairman of the Technological and Aerospace Committee
Problems raised by the
development and proliferation
of advanced ballistic missile technology
Situating the problem:
Mr. ANDO
Minister of Defence of Italy
Proliferation and analysis of the risks for Europe:
Mr. NATIVI
Editing Director, Rivista Italiana di Difesa (RID)
Discussion
The new international order and problems south of
the Mediterranean:
General JEAN
Italy
The evolution of the military situation in Eastern Eurasia: Mr. TAN ENG BOK Charge de
recherche, CNRS
Discussion
2.30 p.m. Second sitting
How to cope with the challenges
Countering proliferation: new criteria for European security: Dr. PAYNE Professor of
National Security Studies, Georgetown
University, President of the National Institute for
Public Policy, United States
Countering proliferation: new criteria for European security: Lt. General GRAHAM (Ret.)
Director of High Frontier, United States
Russia's anti-missile defence:
Mr. TCHUVAKHIN
Deputy Director for Missile Technology,
Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
Russia and the organisation of a world
system of
security or protection:
Dr. FITUNI
Director of the Centre for Strategic and Global
Studies, Academy of Sciences of Russia, Moscow
Future prospects for disarmament, arms exports
control and non-proliferation:
Mr. KARP
SIPRI (Stockholm), Sweden
Discussion
Current state of industrial studies on anti-
missile systems in Europe
High technology security co-operation:
Mr. STEINICKE
Director, Planning and Research Division,
Deutsche Aerospace (DASA), Germany
Industrial co-operation in limited anti-missile defence:
Mr. ZALONIS
President of Eurosam, Italy
Architecture of possible protection systems in Europe: Mr. DELAYE
Director, Aerospatiale, Espace et Defense, France
Control, command and cost of systems:
Mr. VERDOUX
Director, Electronic Systems Division, Thomson-CSF, France
Discussion
Wednesday, 21st April 1993
10 a.m. Third sitting
Current state of industrial studies on anti-missile
systems in Europe (continued)
Observation and warning: mastery of complex
systems:
Mr. ROCHE
Directeur, Systemes Matra Defense Espace, France
Observation and warning: mastery of complex
systems:
Mr. GRICOURT
Matra Marconi Space, France
The use of satellite systems for protection
against ballistic missiles: prospects and limits of
integration of civil and military systems:
Mr. MINICUCCI
Amministratore Delegato, Telespazio, Italy
Impact of ballistic missile defence on European
military space programmes:
Mr. RODOTA
General Manager, Alenia Spazio SpA, Italy
Discussion
Conditions for a European anti-missile defence policy
Strategic lessons of the Gulf war:
General STAINIER
Commandant of the Institut superieur de defense, Belgium
Anti-missile defence in a
global European strategy:
Mr. LEIRA
Counsellor to the Secretary of State for Defence, Spain Discussion
Anti-missile defence for Europe - an industrial perspective: Mr. BURNHAM British
Aerospace Defence Ltd., United Kingdom
Interoperability and co-operation requirements of
anti-missile defence:
Mr. FOXWELL
Ferranti International System Integration, United Kingdom
A worldwide, regional or national
system -
implications of the choice:
Mr. BARTHELEMY
Sous-Directeur a la Delegation aux affaires strategiques, Ministry of Defence, France
Discussion
3 p.m. Fourth sitting
Anti-missile defence and the law of outer space:
Dr. von KRIES
MST Aerospace GmbH, Germany
Discussion
General report:
Mr. MARTRE
President of GIFAS (Groupement des industries
francaises aeronautiques et spatiales), France
General discussion
Conclusions:
Mr. LENZER
MdB, Vice-Chairman of the Technological and Aerospace Committee