Experts Seminar

“FOCUS ON KAZAKHSTAN”

  Thursday 7 April 2005
Egmont Palace, Brussels

09.00                           Registration and coffee

09.30 – 9.50                 Welcome speech by Ambassador Jan Grauls, Chairman of the Board,

                                    Belgian FPS Foreign Affairs and Vice President of IRRI-KIIB.

General presentation of Kazakhstan

Mr. Alexey Volkov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan

9.50 – 10.45                Political developments in Kazakhstan

                                  Chair: Ambassador Jan Grauls,

                                  Mr. Yermukhamet Yertysbayev, Political advisor of the President of Kazakhstan     

                                  Debate (Read the summary)

10.45 – 11.15                Coffee break

11.15 – 12.45                Kazakhstan foreign policy

                                  Chair: Ambassador Mark Geleyn, DG Bilateral relations, FPS Foreign Aff.
                                  Speakers:

                                  Mr. Alexey Volkov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan

                                  Mr. Kurt Juul ,DG Relex, European Commission

                                  Mr. Robert F. Simmons, Deputy Assistant Secretary General, NATO

                                   Mr. Bertrand de Crombrugghe, Belgian Permanent Representative to OSCE
                                    Debate

12.45 – 14.15              Lunch

 14.15 – 14.45               The Economy of Kazakhstan

                                  Chair: Mr. Rudi Thomaes, Managing Director, FEB-VBO      

                                  Speakers:

                                  Mrs Zhanar Aitzhanova, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade, Kazakhstan

                                  Mr.Bernard Snoy, Former Administrator at the World Bank and the EBRD

                                  Debate            

14.45 – 15.45              Energy complex of Kazakhstan

                                  Chair: Mr. Paul Hatry, Former Minister

                                  Speakers:

Mr. Almaz Tulebayaev , Director of the Department of Nuclear Energy and External relations of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources of Kazakhstan

                 Mr. Werner Symens, Managing Director, Atlas Copco     

                                  Mrs Nina Commeau-Yannoussis, Energy and Transport, Eur. Commission

                                  Debate

15.45 – 16.00              Closing remarks

                                  READ the summary of the debates here.