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PERMANENT COUNCIL OF THE OEA/Ser.G
ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES CP/CAJP-2115/04 add. 2
19 March 2004
COMMITTEE ON JURIDICAL AND POLITICAL AFFAIRS Original: Spanish
SPECIAL SESSION ON PROMOTION OF AND RESPECT FOR INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW
(Hall of the Americas, March 25, 2004)
AGENDA AND SCHEDULE[1]/
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AGENDA AND SCHEDULE
Inauguration
1:00 – 1:15 p.m.
Chair of the Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs
I. National application of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
Special Guest:
1:15 – 2:00 p.m.
· Luis Moreno Ocampo. Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
Panelists:
2:00 – 2:15 p.m.
· Col. Kirby Abbot. Director of International Law, Office of the Judge-Advocate General, Department of National Defense of Canada.
2:15 – 2:30 p.m.
· José Antonio Guevara, Latin American Coordinator of the ICC Coalition
2:30 – 2:45 p.m.
· Dino Carlos Caro Coira, Professor of Criminal Law, Pontificia Universidad Católica, Peru
2:45 – 3:00 p.m.
· Gaile Ann Ramouta, Foreign Service Officer, Permanent Mission of Trinidad and Tobago to the United Nations, Trinidad and Tobago.
3:00 – 3:30 p.m.
Dialogue on this topic
II. 50th anniversary of the Hague Convention of 1954 on the protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict: challenges, achievements and prospects in the Americas
3:30 – 3:45 p.m.
· Ana Elizabeth Cubias, Permanent Secretary of the Committee on International Humanitarian Law, El Salvador
3:45 – 4:00 p.m.
Dialogue on this topic
III. Challenges in the area of International Humanitarian Law
4:00 – 4:15 p.m.
· Antón Camen, Legal Adviser, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
4:15 – 4:30 p.m.
· Brian Tittemore, Legal Adviser, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
4:30 – 4:45 p.m.
Dialogue on this topic
IV. Recent hemispheric and global progress on the issues referred to in resolution AG/RES. 1944 (XXXIII-O/03)
4:45 – 5:00 p.m.
· Anton Camen, Legal Adviser, ICRC
5:00 – 5:15 p.m.
· Presentation by a representative of the permanent mission of Peru to the OAS on the Regional Conference on Persons Missing as a Result of Armed Conflict or Internal Violence, held in Lima in May 2003.
5:15 – 5:30 p.m.
· Jorge García González, Head of the Technical Secretariat for Legal Cooperation Mechanisms, OAS Secretariat for Legal Affairs
5:30 – 6:00 p.m.
Dialogue on this topic
[1]. Approved at the meeting of the Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs of February 27, 2004