Yukiya Amano, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to the International Organizations in Vienna, takes the floor

Vladimir Baranovsky, Deputy Director of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations; and Carlo Jean, President of the SOGIN Nuclear Plant Management Company

Sergey Kirienko, Head of the Russian Federal Agency for Atomic Energy; Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor, Chairman of the Conference Organizing Committee; and Mohamed ElBaradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency

Sergey Karaganov, Presidium Chairman of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy and Deputy Director of the Institute of Europe

Roland Timerbayev, Chairman of the Board of the PIR-Center; and Jon Wolfsthal, Senior Fellow (International Security Program) of the Center for Strategic and International Studies

Robert Legvold, Professor at Columbia University (U.S.); and Ariel Levite, Principal Deputy Director General of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission

Roald Sagdeev, Distinguished Professor, Director of the East-West Space Science Center at the University of Maryland, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Nikolay Laverov, Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences; and Sergey Kirienko, Head of the Russian Federal Agency for Atomic Energy

Conference participants hold session in the Luxexpo conference hall

Presidium of the Conference

Mohamed ElBaradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency; and Sergey Kirienko, Head of the Russian Federal Agency for Atomic Energy

Mohamed ElBaradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency; and Rolf Ekeus, High Commissioner on National Minorities of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

Mohamed ElBaradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency; and Jean Asselborn, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Immigration of Luxembourg

Michael Krepon, Founding President of the Henry L. Stimson Center (USA); and Robert Legvold, Professor at Columbia University

Luxexpo Complex, the Conference venue

From left to right: Francesco Calogero, Physics Professor at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”; Joseph Cirincione, Senior Vice President for National Security and International Affairs of the Center for American Progress; Michael Krepon, Founding President of the Henry L. Stimson Center (USA); Rose Gottemoeller, Director of the Moscow Carnegie Center; Jayantha Dhanapala, Senior Adviser to the President of Sri Lanka and member of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission; and George Perkovich, Vice President for Studies – Global Security and Economic Development at the Carnegie Endowment

Roald Sagdeev, Distinguished Professor, Director of the East-West Space Science Center at the University of Maryland, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences; and William Potter, Director of the Center for Nonproliferation Studies and the Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Professor of the Monterey Institute of International Studies

Exchange between  Jean Asselborn, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Immigration of Luxembourg; Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor, Chairman of the Conference Organizing Committee; and Sergey Kirienko, Head of the Russian Federal Agency for Atomic Energy

Conference participants and guests enter the Luxexpo Complex

Conference participants and guests enter the Luxexpo Complex

Hans Blix, Chairman of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, delivers his address to Conference participants and guests

Hans Blix, Chairman of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, delivers his address to Conference participants and guests