The Manama Dialogue: List of Speakers

In case you've forgotten, this weekend, Security Dilemmas has been invited to blog the Manama Dialogue Perisan Gulf Security Summit. Over the weekend, I will be emailed transcripts of the plenary sessions and speeches, which I will post and comment on.

So, here's the agenda, with the speakers:

The Manama Dialogue 2006

SPEAKER AGENDA

21:00 – 23:00 Keynote Address and Opening Dinner

HRH Prince Muqrin Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

Chief of General Intelligence, Saudi Arabia

Saturday 9 December

09:00 – 09:05 Opening of the Summit

Dr John Chipman

Director-General and Chief Executive, IISS

09:05 –09:40 First Plenary Session

THE US AND THE REGION

Dr Zalmay Khalilzad

Ambassador of the US to Iraq

09:45 – 11:15 Second Plenary Session

REGIONAL SECURITY PERCEPTIONS

Manouchehr Mottaki

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Iran

Hoshyar Zebari

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Iraq

Sh Khalid Bin Ahmed Al Khalifa

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bahrain

Sh Mohammed Al Abdallah Al Sabah

Director, Citizens Services and Governmental Bodies Assessment Agency

11:45 – 13:15 Third Plenary Session

ASIA’S ROLE IN THE REGION

M. K. Narayanan

National Security Adviser to the Prime Minister, India

Yuriko Koike

National Security Adviser, Japan

Sun Bigan

Special Envoy to the Middle East, China

15:30 – 17:30 Simultaneous Break-Out Groups

Group I: ENERGY AND MARITIME SECURITY

Chair: Professor François Heisbourg

IISS Chairman; former IISS Director

Vice Admiral David Nichols

Deputy Commander, Central Command, US

Vice Admiral A K Singh

Commander-in-Chief, Eastern Naval Command, India

Zainul Abidin Rasheed

Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Singapore

Group II: DEMOGRAPHICS, SECTARIANISM AND GULF SECURITY

Chair: Ellen Laipson

President and CEO, The Henry L. Stimson Center, US

Dr Saadoun Al Dulaimi

Adviser to the Prime Minister; Iraq

Wafaa Bassim

Deputy Foreign Minister, Egypt

Mohammed Abdulla M Al Rumaihi

Undersecretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Qatar

Group III: SECURITY GUARANTEES AND REGIONAL STABILITY

Chair: Field Marshal The Rt Hon Lord Inge

Former Chief of the Defence Staff, UK

Dr John Hillen

Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs, US

Jean de Ponton d’Amécourt

Director, Strategic Affairs, Ministry of Defence, France

Dr Hossein Mousavian

Foreign Policy Advisor to the Supreme National Security Council; Vice President, International Issues, Center for Strategic Research, Iraq

20:30 – 23:00 Reception and Dinner

Hosted by His Highness Sheikh Salman Bin Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa

Sunday 10 December

08:45 – 10:00 Fourth Plenary Session

THE SITUATION IN IRAQ

Jawad Al Bolani

Minister of Interior, Iraq

Mehmet Vecdi Gonul

Minister of Defence, Turkey

Carl Bildt

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sweden

10:30 – 11:45 Fifth Plenary Session

EUROPE’S ROLE IN THE REGION

Maurice Gourdault-Montagne

Diplomatic Advisor to the President of the Republic, France

Rt Hon Adam Ingram

Minister of State for the Armed Forces, UK

Christian Schmidt

Parliamentary State Secretary, Ministry of Defence, Germany

12:15 – 13:30 Sixth Plenary Session

THE FUTURE SHAPE OF REGIONAL SECURITY

Muhammad Ali Al Anisi

Chairman, National Security Agency and Head of the Presidential Office, Yemen

General Ehsan Ul Haq

Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, Pakistan

Dr Mowaffak Al Rubaie

National Security Adviser, Iraq

This is really an impressive event. Please check in with Security Dilemmas for continual updates and analysis of this security conference.