Third Site: Missile Defense in Europe
April 19th, 2007

9:15 Coffee and Registration

9:45 Welcome by Fred Kempe, President, Atlantic Council and Oldřich Černý, Chairman of the Board, Prague Security Studies Institute Washington

9:55 Introduction: HE Petr Kolář, Ambassador of the Czech Republic to the United States

10:00 Address by Hon. Karel Schwarzenberg, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Czech Republic

0:30 Presentation: Architecture of the Third Site BG Patrick O'Reilly, Deputy Director, Missile Defense Agency

11:00 Presentation: The Case for a Third Site Hon. Robert G. Joseph, Former Under Secretary, Arms Control and International Security, U.S. Department of State

11:30 Coffee Break

11:45 Presentation: Perspectives on Missile Defense in Europe. Hon. Daniel Fried, Assistant Secretary of State for Europe; Dr. Andrzej Karkoszka, former Polish State Secretary for Defense and Director of the Strategic Defense Review

12:45 Lunch and Keynote Speaker: Hon. Ellen Tauscher, Chair, Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, House Armed Services Committee

13:30 Presentation: Is There a Role for NATO? Hon. Robert Bell, former NATO Assistant Secretary General for Defense Support

14:15 Concluding Remarks Jim Townsend, Director, International Security Program, Atlantic Council; Roger W. Robinson Jr., Executive Director, Prague Security Studies Institute Washington

This conference has been made possible in part by the Boeing Company, SAIC, and Raytheon