The workshop is sponsored by the NATO Security Through Science Program and is designed to enhance international cooperation in the Black Sea region in support of border control efforts to detect, deter and interdict illicit trafficking. The workshop aims to promote high-level interactions between key government and non-governmental players in order to address regional security and counter trafficking challenges and shortfalls in the Black Sea Region, and to encourage bilateral and multilateral efforts to improve counter-trafficking cooperation in the region. The upcoming Black Sea security workshop follows on from prior NATO Advanced Research Workshops on Illicit Trafficking (September 2004) and on Radiological Security (November 2005). The workshop is part of the ongoing program of activities of the working group established in 2002 at the International Approaches to Nuclear and Radiological Security (IANRS) Conference in London with support from the US Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and the Russian Federation’s Ministry of Atomic Energy (MinAtom) and the Kurchatov Institute. For further information, please contact Julia Fairrie of the Trilateral Group in London. She can be reached by email:julia@trilat.com or by telephone on: (+44) (207) 591-4800 or by fax on: (+44) (207) 591-4801.

1st day:

15:00-17:30 18:00-19:00

19:30

DELEGATE AND SPEAKER REGISTRATION WELCOME & AGENDA OVERVIEW

Setting the Agenda:

Euro-Atlantic Security and Integration of the Black Sea Region.

Energy security & unresolved regional conflicts.

Identifying concrete steps for the Black Sea region

Post 9/11 security challenges

Relationship between cigarettes, narcotics & other traditional smuggling activities and potential WMD acquisition efforts by rogue states and terrorist groups.

Improving co-operation between governments, inter-governmental agencies and the private sector regarding illicit trafficking in the region.

RECEPTION & WELCOME DINNER

The NATO Perspective - Working with Partner Countries to Counter

Illicit Trafficking and related security threats in the Black Sea and

Caucasus Region.

2nd day:

09:00-10:45

ROUNDTABLE: COUNTER-TRAFFICKING CHALLENGES IN THE BLACK SEA REGION

Issues:

Security and the Role of the Organization for Black Sea Economic

Cooperation

Current Regional counter-trafficking cooperation

Traditional Contraband Channels (Tobacco, Drugs, Pharmaceuticals etc.)

Shortfalls in International and National Controls over high-risk

commodities such as Sealed Radioactive Sources

Improvised Explosive Devices

Terrorist capabilities in the Region

10:45-11:00

COFFEE BREAK

11:00-13:00: ROUNDTABLE: STRATEGIC COOPERATION TO

COUNTER ILLICIT TRAFFICKING IN THE REGION

Issues:

Strengthening cooperation between organizations & agencies responsible for counter trafficking:

BSEC, IAEA, EU, US & Russian Support for Regional Counter Trafficking Programs

NATO

Public-private sector cooperation

Customs, Police and other Law Enforcement

Training

Warnings & Indicators

Intelligence & Information Sharing

13:00-14:30 LUNCH

14:30-17:00 ROUNDTABLE: TECHNICAL COOPERATION -DETECTION & INTERDICTION OF RADIOACTIVE SOURCES & OTHER SECURITY THREATS

Issues:

Technical Shortfalls & Requirements in the Black Sea Region

International Technical Cooperation Agreements

Pooling of resources - sharing monitoring and detection equipment etc.

Implementation of IAEA Tec Docs - Prevention of Illicit Trafficking

New Technologies

Legislative Requirements for cooperation

19:30 RECEPTION: Followed by DINNER

3rd day:

9:00-11:00 ROUNDTABLE: ACTION ITEMS AND CLOSING REMARKS

Issues: Findings and Action Items

11:00 COFFEE BREAK

12:00-13:00 LUNCH

WORKSHOP CLOSES

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