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1999 INES Council Meeting: First Draft Invitation

DATE: 22-29 September 1999

VENUE: Vienna, Austria (exact location yet to be confirmed)

• 22 Sep: Executive Committee Meeting (16.00-19.00)
• 23 Sep: INES Seminar with guests: Science and Responsibility at the Threshold to the 21st Century (10.00)
• 24 Sep:
• Ongoing Seminar (until 15.00)
• Executive Committee Meeting (15.00-17.00)
• Opening of the Council Meeting (19.00-20.00):
• Report of the Chairman
• Financial Report
• Report from the Office
• Discussion and outlook
• Cocktail reception with the Mayor of Vienna (20.00)
• 25 Sep:
• Status of INES projects (8.30-11.00)
• Announcement of EC election procedure (11.20-11.30)
• Strategic goals for the next years of INES (11.30-13.00)
• Group work INES projects 2000 (14.30-17.00)
• Social event (17.30)
• 26 Sep
• Elections, next steps and decisions (8.30-11.00):
• Election
• Next Council Meeting
• other steps
• Information and debate of the Stockholm Conference ''INES Conference 2000 Challenges for Scientists and Engineers in the 21st Century'':
• General introduction (together with the convenors of the workshops) (11.30-14.00)
• Meeting of the convenors of the Stockholm Conference (15.30-18.00)
• Executive Committee Meeting (19.30-22.00)
• 27 Sep:
• Ongoing of the convenors meeting (9.00-14.00)
• Excursion Sustainable Vienna (14.00-17.00)
• Ongoing of the convenors meeting if necessary (19.00-22.00)

Registration forms are available only from the INES Office: < >

NOTE: The printed version of the INES Newsletter is being mailed to every INES member. However, it is also available either at:

The main articles of this issue are dealing with NATO expansion:

• NATO Expansion to the South and US Nuclear Strategy to Maintain World Order (by Bahig Nassar, Egypt)
• NATO Expansion: Costs and Implications (by Carl Conetta, USA)
• NATO Expansion and European Security (by Jiri Matousek, Czech Republic)
• German INESAP initiators demand a No-First-Use policy

• New INES members
• Current state of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization
• Hague Appeal for Peace Conference
• Data Bank ''Sustainable Development - Institutions and Experts in Europe''

• Opening (by Ph. Morrison)
• Situation and perspectives in Russia (by A. Yaroshinskaya)
• Dangers of nuclear terrorism and proliferation (by D. Krieger)
• Prospects for nuclear disarmament (by A. Slater)
• The Hague Appeal for Peace (by K. Wood)
• NATO expansion: Costs and implication (by C. Conetta)
• U.S. Global roles and interests in the post-Cold War era (by P. Walker)
• Security concerns in the Middle East (by E. Ezz)
• Global action to prevent war (by R. Forsberg et al.) 

• PROLIFERATION:
• U.S. Moves Toward Missile Defense System
• Arms Expert Predicts U.S. City Will Be Destroyed by a Nuclear Weapon Within 10 Years
• Clinton Proposes $4.2 Billion to Increase Nuclear Security in Russia
• New Plutonium Program Could Cause Thousands of Additional Deaths
• India and Vietnam Sign Nuclear Energy Pact
• NON-PROLIFERATION:
• Conference on Disarmament Resumes
• Senate Ratification of CTBT Top Clinton Priority
• NATO: Canada Echoes Germany's Call for No First-Strike Policy
• Energy and Waste:
• "Mobile Chernobyl" Legislation Re-Introduced
• Germany Backtracks on Plan to End Nuclear Power
• Greenpeace Exposes Russian Plans to Import Nuclear Waste
• Electricity Deregulation Could Generate More Than $50 Billion in Nuclear Waste Liabilities 

• "Hanford Thyroid Disease Study - A Downwinder Responds," by Trisha Pritikin, may be found at: http://www.downwinders.org/trisha1.htm
• Analysis of Threats to the NPT: Jayantha Dhanapala, Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations, presented an excellent analysis of the threats to the NPT and the role of NGOs at a Carnegie Endowment for International Peace disarmament conference in January. It is available at: http://www.ceip.org/programs/npp/dhanapala.htm.
• U.S. Nuclear Policy Update: "Nuclear Hypocrisy: New Weapons Development and Anti-Disarmament Policies in the U.S., a five-page, fact-filled article by Jackie Cabasso is available by e-mail on request: < >
• With efforts to build a missile defense system gaining momentum, track developments with the Missile Defense Newswire at: http://www.clw.org/ef/bmdnews/index.html
• Statements by Religious Leaders and Organizations on Nuclear Weapons Abolition: http://www.napf.org/abolition2000/religious.html
• "Time for a no-first-use policy" (Christian Science Monitor): http://www.csmonitor.com:80/durable/1999/01/28/p11s1.htm
• Nuclear Futures-Western European Options for Nuclear Risk Reduction (BASIC Report): http://www.basicint.org/nufu3-0.htm