Friday, July 2, 2010

'Ottawa Dialogue'

Details of the third India-Pakistan Track-two meeting on nuclear issues. The initiative is called 'Ottawa Dialogue'.

Venue: Copenhagen, Denmark
Dates: 18-19, 2010

Participants:

- Shamshad Ahmad, former Foreign Secretary of Pakistan;
- Lalit Mansingh, former Foreign Secretary of India;
- Suba Chandran, Deputy Director, Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, Delhi;
- Shahzad Chaudhry, Air Vice Marshal, retired, Pakistan Air Force;
- Mohan Guruswamy, Chairman, Centre for Policy Alternatives, Delhi;
- Rifaat Hussain, Professor, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad;
- Happymon Jacob, Assistant Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi;
- Ahmad Aziz Khan, Ambassador, retired, Foreign Service of Pakistan (former High Commissioner to India);
- Amitabh Mattoo, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi;
- Raja Menon, Rear Admiral, retired, Indian Navy;
- Shuja Nawaz, Director of the South Asia Centre, Atlantic Council of the United States;
- Abdul Hameed Nayyar, Senior Research Fellow, Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad;
- Arun Prakash, Admiral, retired, Indian Navy (former Chair of the Chiefs of Staff Committee);
- Ramamurti Rajaraman, Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi;
- Najjmudin Shaikh, former Foreign Secretary of Pakistan; and
- Vijay Shankar, Vice Admiral, retired, Indian Navy (former Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Strategic Forces Command)

Member of the Ottawa Dialogue unable to be present in Copenhagen:

Talat Masood, Lieutenant General, retired, Pakistan Army;
Jamshed Hashmi, Chairman Emeritus, Pakistan Nuclear Regulatory Authority.

Complete report of the dialogue is available at: http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/api/eng/documents/Finalenglish.pdf