49TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
'After Iraq - a new Transatlantic Consensus? NATO at a Crossroads!'
4th - 8th NOVEMBER 2003
EDINBURGH
NATO Military and political leaders will be in Edinburgh next week, for the 49th General Assembly of the North Atlantic Treaty Association – the political wing of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation to attend discussions on the future of NATO at the EICC – the Edinburgh International Conference Centre..
Events will also include a Royal reception at Holyrood Palace, an evening on the Royal Yacht Britannia, a trip to see the Scottish Crown Jewels and a visit to Stirling Castle
AMONG the people attending will be:
Supreme Allied Commander of Europe: General James L Jones (USA)
Geoff Hoon, MP Secretary of State for Defence (United Kingdom)
US Ambassador to the UK: Ambassador Nicholas Burns
Rt Hon Lord Robertson of Port Ellen, PC, Secretary General, NATO
Russian Ambassador to the UK: Ambassador Yuri B. Kashlev
AND representatives of some of the largest arms manufacturers in the world including:
Steve Mogford, Chief Operating Officer, BAE Systems plc
Jack Cronin, MD and President, Raytheon Systems Ltd.
John Howe, Vice Chairman, Thales UK
Joe Baynes Vice President, Lockheed Martin UK, Business Development
A brief timetable is copied below:
Tuesday 4th November: Council members arrive
Wednesday 5th November:
08.30-16.30 Council Meeting
17.00-19.00 Official opening & Plenary Session 2: 'NATO's Military Transformation'
SACEUR - General James L Jones
Thursday 6th November:
08.30 hrs - 10.00 hrs - Plenary Session 3: 'A New Role for NATO?' Ambassador Nicholas Burns (US)
10.30 hrs - 12.00 hrs - Plenary Session 4: 'Bridging the Technology Gap - Can it be done?' Steve Mogford Chief Operating Officer, BAE Systems plc-
14.00 hrs - 15.30 hrs - Plenary Session 5 Rt Hon Geoff Hoon, MP Secretary of State for Defence
16.00 hrs - 16.45 hrs – Plenary Session 6 'NATO's Public Diplomacy Policy – ‘today & tomorrow'
16.45 hrs - 17.30 hrs - Plenary Session 7 'Creating a democratic policy in a changing world'
Fri 7th Nov
08.00 hrs - 10.00 hrs - Plenary Session 8: Statutory Plenary Session
10.00 hrs - 10.45 hrs - Plenary Session 9: ‘After PASS and Bucharest - the way forward'
Speaker: Dr Jamie Shea NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy
11.15 hrs - 12.15 hrs - Plenary Session 10: Round Table on 'After Iraq - a new transatlantic consensus? NATO at a crossroads!' Ambassador Robert Hunter (US) (Rand Corporation)
12.15 hrs - 13.15 hrs - Plenary Session 11: Rt Hon Lord Robertson of Port Ellen, PC, Secretary General, NATO
14.30 hrs - 15.30 hrs - Plenary Session 12:'NATO - Russia Relations'
16.00 hrs - 17.00 hrs - Plenary Session 13: 'European Foreign and Security Policy'
17.00 hrs - 17.30 hrs - Plenary Session 14:
17.30 - 18.00 - Closing Ceremony
'After Iraq - a new Transatlantic Consensus? NATO at a Crossroads!'
4th - 8th NOVEMBER 2003
EDINBURGH
NATO Military and political leaders will be in Edinburgh next week, for the 49th General Assembly of the North Atlantic Treaty Association – the political wing of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation to attend discussions on the future of NATO at the EICC – the Edinburgh International Conference Centre..
Events will also include a Royal reception at Holyrood Palace, an evening on the Royal Yacht Britannia, a trip to see the Scottish Crown Jewels and a visit to Stirling Castle
AMONG the people attending will be:
Supreme Allied Commander of Europe: General James L Jones (USA)
Geoff Hoon, MP Secretary of State for Defence (United Kingdom)
US Ambassador to the UK: Ambassador Nicholas Burns
Rt Hon Lord Robertson of Port Ellen, PC, Secretary General, NATO
Russian Ambassador to the UK: Ambassador Yuri B. Kashlev
AND representatives of some of the largest arms manufacturers in the world including:
Steve Mogford, Chief Operating Officer, BAE Systems plc
Jack Cronin, MD and President, Raytheon Systems Ltd.
John Howe, Vice Chairman, Thales UK
Joe Baynes Vice President, Lockheed Martin UK, Business Development
A brief timetable is copied below:
Tuesday 4th November: Council members arrive
Wednesday 5th November:
08.30-16.30 Council Meeting
17.00-19.00 Official opening & Plenary Session 2: 'NATO's Military Transformation'
SACEUR - General James L Jones
Thursday 6th November:
08.30 hrs - 10.00 hrs - Plenary Session 3: 'A New Role for NATO?' Ambassador Nicholas Burns (US)
10.30 hrs - 12.00 hrs - Plenary Session 4: 'Bridging the Technology Gap - Can it be done?' Steve Mogford Chief Operating Officer, BAE Systems plc-
14.00 hrs - 15.30 hrs - Plenary Session 5 Rt Hon Geoff Hoon, MP Secretary of State for Defence
16.00 hrs - 16.45 hrs – Plenary Session 6 'NATO's Public Diplomacy Policy – ‘today & tomorrow'
16.45 hrs - 17.30 hrs - Plenary Session 7 'Creating a democratic policy in a changing world'
Fri 7th Nov
08.00 hrs - 10.00 hrs - Plenary Session 8: Statutory Plenary Session
10.00 hrs - 10.45 hrs - Plenary Session 9: ‘After PASS and Bucharest - the way forward'
Speaker: Dr Jamie Shea NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy
11.15 hrs - 12.15 hrs - Plenary Session 10: Round Table on 'After Iraq - a new transatlantic consensus? NATO at a crossroads!' Ambassador Robert Hunter (US) (Rand Corporation)
12.15 hrs - 13.15 hrs - Plenary Session 11: Rt Hon Lord Robertson of Port Ellen, PC, Secretary General, NATO
14.30 hrs - 15.30 hrs - Plenary Session 12:'NATO - Russia Relations'
16.00 hrs - 17.00 hrs - Plenary Session 13: 'European Foreign and Security Policy'
17.00 hrs - 17.30 hrs - Plenary Session 14:
17.30 - 18.00 - Closing Ceremony
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Protests already planned
31.10.2003 17:03
· Wednesday 5th November from 10am meet in Augustine Church to make banners and props. Picket Edinburgh International Conference Centre from 4pm for arrival of Supreme Allied Forces Commander Europe.
· Thursday 6th November from 8am onwards, picket the arrival of arms dealers at EICC until 12.00am
· Thursday 6th November 1pm picket the arrival of Geoff Hoon at EICC by Edinburgh Stop the War Coalition.
· Attempts to award an alternative MTV award (“Maker of Thousands of Victims”) to Geoff Hoon by activists at any time…
Other actions are being planned and we urge everyone to use their initiative to organise things quickly.
For more details / press enquiries David McKenzie from Trident Ploughshares has agreed to act as contact: 08454 588366 or 0787 659 3016
Please post any details of your protest at this site. Thanks
No To NATO
Edinburgh STW plans
31.10.2003 17:18
Thurs Nov 6th EICC, 150 Morrison St, Asssemble 1.00pm
NATO Military and political leaders will be meeting in Edinburgh next week at the EICC – the Edinburgh International Conference Centre.
Events will include:
*Address by Geoff Hoon, Britain's Minister of Aggression and well-known Liar for War, on Thurs 6th Nov
*Jamboree on Royal Yacht Britannia, evening of Wed Nov 5th (time tbc)
Attending will be:
Supreme Allied Commander of Europe: General James L Jones (USA)
Geoff Hoon (United Kingdom)
US Ambassador, Nicholas Burns
Lord Robertson, Secretary General, NATO
Russian Ambassador, Yuri B. Kashlev
...as well as representatives of some of the largest arms manufacturers in the world including
Chief Operating Officer of BAE Systems plc
President of Raytheon Systems Ltd
VP of Lockheed Martin.
Archive note, still relevant today!
"I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscleman for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism." (Maj-Gen. Smedley Butler)
(Photos above: Jones, Hoon, Burns, Robertson, NATO bombing victim, NATO weapon of mass destruction)
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