Program of the 2003 North American Regional Meeting
New York, New York — November 14-16, 2003

All events held at the The New York Palace Hotel except Saturday evening reception and dinner.

Friday, November 14

6:30 pm
Reception in the Villard Bar

Saturday, November 15

9:00 am

WELCOME: Thomas S. Foley, North American Chairman

SESSION I: "IMMIGRATION AND SECURITY POLICY, POST-9/11"
Chair: Allan E. Gotlieb, former Deputy Canadian Minister of Manpower & Immigration; former Chairman, Employment & Immigration Commission
Panel:
Joe Bissett, former Executive Director, Canadian Immigration Service
Magdalena Carral, Commissioner, Mexican National Migration Institute
Michael Chertoff, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals (3rd Circuit); former Assistant U.S. Attorney General (Criminal Division)

Background papers are available for this session.
"Troubled Borders: Canada, The United States and Mexico" (PDF 72kb/8pp)
Prepared by Joe Bissett
"Migration and Security Policy Post-9/11: Mexico and The United States" (PDF 44kb/6pp)
Prepared by Magdalena Carral

12:30 pm
Luncheon
"A View From Baghdad"
Speaker: Walter Slocombe, Director, Office of Security Affairs, Coalition Provisional Authority, Baghdad; former U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy

The text of "A View From Baghdad" is available for this session.
"A View From Baghdad" (PDF 80kb/7pp)
Address by Walter Slocombe

2:30 pm
SESSION II: "AGRICULTURE AND TRADE IN NORTH AMERICA"
Chair: Jaime Serra, SAI Derecho & Economia; former Mexican Minister of Trade
Panel:
Roberto Newell, Mexican Undersecretary of Agriculture
Michael Gifford, former Canadian Agricultural Trade Negotiator
Joseph O'Mara, former U.S. Agricultural Trade Negotiator

A background paper is available for this session.
"Agriculture and Trade in North America" (PDF 44kb/5pp)
Prepared by Charles J. O'Mara

7:00 pm
Reception and dinner in the Rainbow Room, Rockefeller Plaza
"A European View of the Euro-Atlantic Alliance"
Speaker: Peter Sutherland, Chairman, BP p.l.c.; European Chairman, The Trilateral Commission

Sunday, November 16

9:00 am
SESSION III: "THE UNITED NATIONS IN 2003: LEGITIMACY, CREDIBILITY, CAPABILITY"
Chair: Anne Marie Slaughter, Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Panel:
Enrique Krauze, General Director, Editorial Clio Libros y Videos, S.A. de C.V.
Gordon Smith, former Canadian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
Richard Holbrooke, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations

12:00 pm
Concluding Remarks of the Chairman and Deputy Chairmen