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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