Program of conference

December 5th 2008, The Polish Maritime Museum in Gdańsk

19.00 – 21.00		Gala dinner inaugurating the Conference
Paweł Adamowicz The Mayor of Gdansk		Welcome
Bogdan Borusewicz Speaker of Polish Senate
Gediminas Kirkilas Prime Minister of Lithuania
Bernard Kouchner Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of France
Guido de Marco former President of Malta
Prof. Władysław Bartoszewski former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland

December 6th 2008 , Polish Balic F. Chopin Philharmonic in Gdańsk

08:00-09:30		Registration
09:30-10:00		Opening Session
Piotr Gulczyński President of the Lech Walesa Institute		Welcome
Prof. Jerzy Buzek, MEP former Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland		Opening of the Conference
Lech Wałęsa former President of the Republic of Poland Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Donald Tusk Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland
José Manuel Barroso President of the European Commission
10:15 – 10:30		Presentation of the first Lech Wałęsa Award
10:40 – 12:10		1st Session "Is Global Peace Ever Possible?"
Andrzej Olechowski Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland		Chair and Moderator
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Professor Ole D. Mjøs Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee
Mikhail Gorbachev (video message tbc) former President of the Soviet Union, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Frederik Willem de Klerk former President of the Republic of South Africa Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Shirn Ebadi Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Lech Wałęsa former President of the Republic of Poland Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
12:10 – 12:30		Coffee break
12:30 – 14:00		2nd Session "Europe – The Source Of Stability Or Danger For Peace Development Of The World In XXI Century"
Jacek Saryusz - Wolski Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament		Chair and Moderator
Boris Tadić President of the Republic of Serbia
Terry Davis Secretary General of the Council of Europe
Aleksander Kwaśniewski (live transmission  tbc) former President of the Republic of Poland
Alfred Gusenbauer, (tbc) Federal Chancellor of the Republic of Austria
Nikola Spirić Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Waldemar Pawlak Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Economy of Poland
14:00 – 15:45		Lunch
15:45 - 16:00		Special Address of the President of Council of European Union "From Solidarity to Europe of Solidarity"
Nicolas Sarkozy President of the Republic of France
16:00 – 17:30		3rd Session "Directions Of The World’s Development – Opportunities And Challenges"
Radosław Sikorski Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland		Chair and Moderator
Shimon Peres (tbc) President of Izrael, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
José María Aznar former Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Spain
Prof. Leszek Balcerowicz former Deputy Prime Minister and former Minister of Finance of the Republic of Poland
Marc Perrin de Brichambaut Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
Adolfo Perez Esquivel Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Jan Kulczyk President of Green Cross International
17:30 – 18:00		Closing Sesion
Lech Wałęsa former President of the Republic of Poland Nobel Peace Prize Laureate		Closing Remarks
Prof. Jerzy Buzek, MEP former Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland		Closing of the Conference
20.30 – 21.30		Gala concert dedicated to the 25. anniversary of the Nobel Peace Prize for Lech Wałęsa
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