Program of the 1998 Annual Meeting
Berlin, Germany—March 21-23, 1998

Saturday, March 21

8:45-9:00
Opening of Meeting by Three Chairmen
Otto Graf Lambsdorff, European Chairman
Yotaro Kobayashi, Japanese Chairman
Paul A. Volcker, North American Chairman

9:00-11:15
GERMANY
Wolfgang Schäuble, Member of the German Bundestag; Chairman, CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group
Günter Verheugen, Member of the German Bundestag; Foreign Policy Spokesman of the SPD Parliamentary Group
Heinrich von Pierer, Chairman of the Managing Board, and Chief Executive Officer, Siemens
Arnulf Baring, Professor, Free University of Berlin

12:00-14:30
Luncheon session
Helmut Kohl, Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany

15:00-16:15
EUROPE’S CHALLENGES
- EMU & EUROPE’S POLITICAL/ECONOMIC PROGRESS
Lamberto Dini, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Italy
- CONSOLIDATING EUROPE’S POST-COLD WAR PEACE
Javier Solana, Secretary General, NATO
- EUROPE’S INTERNATIONAL ROLES
Henry Kissinger, Former U.S. Secretary of State
Toru Kusukawa, Chairman, Fuji Research Institute Corporation
Han Sung-Joo, President, Ilmin International Relations Institute, Korea University, Seoul; former Minister of Foreign Affairs

16:15-17:45
Subgroup discussions with the Panelists

19:00-20:00
RUSSIA
Grigory A. Yavlinsky, Member of the State Duma
Sergei Karaganov, Deputy Director, Institut of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences

20:00-21:30
Dinner session
hosted by Kurt Lauk and Klaus Mangold, Members of the Board of Management, Daimler-Benz

Sunday, March 22

9:00-12:00
GLOBAL CAPITAL FLOWS AND EMERGING ECONOMIES
Stanley Fischer, 1st Deputy Managing Director, IMF
Kiichi Miyazawa, Diet Member; former Prime Minister
Martin Wolf, Associate Editor, The Financial Times
- followed by comments from:
Victor Fung, Chairman, Li & Fung (Trading), Hong Kong

12:30-13:45
Luncheon

14:30-15:30
ADVANCING COMMON TRILATERAL PURPOSES IN THE MIDDLE EAST
- DEALING WITH IRAN AND IRAQ, and
- FACILITATING ISRAELI/PALESTINIAN PEACE
Robert H. Pelletreau, Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs; former U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia and Egypt
Dominique Moïsi, Deputy Director, IFRI, Paris; Member of the “Louisiana Process” for Arab-Israeli Peace
Reinhard Schlagintweit, German Society for Foreign Affairs (DGAP); former Director for the Near and Middle East, Foreign Ministry
Yoshiji Nogami, Ambassador of Japan to OECD, Paris; former Deputy Director General, Middle Eastern and African Affairs Bureau, Foreign Ministry

15:30-17:00
Subgroup discussions with the Panelists

19:00-19:45
Reception hosted by the Berlin Senate and Eberhard Diepgen, Governing Mayor of Berlin
Speaker: Aleksander Kwasniewski, President of the Republic of Poland

20:15-22:00
Dinner hosted by Josef Ackermann, Member of the Board, Deutsche Bank

Monday, March 23

8:00-10:15
MEETING THE LEADERSHIP CHALLENGES OF THE 21ST CENTURY
- with opening remarks by David Rockefeller, Founder and Honorary Chairman of the Trilateral Commission
Yoichi Funabashi, Columnist, The Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo
Richard Holbrooke, Vice Chairman, CSFB Corp., New York; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European & Canadian Affairs and for East Asian & Pacific Affairs
Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, Member of the Danish Parliament; Chairman, Liberal Party; former Foreign Minister

10:15-10:30
Closing of the Meeting by the Chairmen

11:30-12:30
Official closing reception hosted by the Presidency
Speaker: Roman Herzog, Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany

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