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P R O G R A M M E

9th Executive Seminar for Diplomats from

Asia and the Pacific25th April – 31st May, 2016


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Table of contents

PROGRAMME OVERVIEW ................................. - 1 -

PROGRAMME ...................................................... - 4 -

PARTICIPANTS ..................................................- 21 -

CONTACT DETAILS ...........................................- 22 -


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PROGRAMME OVERVIEW

1st week: 25th April – 1st May, 2016 Page

Sun 24 Arrival / informal welcome dinner -

Mon 25

Breakfast at Cosmo Hotel

Official welcome and introduction; organisational matters

Official welcome lunch

4

Tue 26

Meetings with experts from the Federal Foreign Office (FFO)

Berlin city tour

Optional: Reception on the occasion of the German-Korean Society’s

50th anniversary

4

Wed 27 Visit to the Bundestag 5

Thu 28Visit to the Bundesrat

Meetings with FFO experts6

Fri 29Lecture: German and European history

Topography of Terror6

Sat 30 Museum Alte Nationalgalerie; Leisure time 7

Sun 1 Leisure time 7

2nd week: 2nd – 8th May, 2016Page

Mon 2Public speaking training at the Foreign Service Academy in Berlin-

Tegel7

Tue 3 Meetings with FFO expertsOffice of the Federal President

7

Wed 4German Council on Foreign Relations (SWP)

German Institute for International and Security Affairs (DGAP)8

Thu 5 Mediation training 8

Fri 6

Federal Chancellery

Excursion to Potsdam

Hasso Plattner Institute

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

9

Sat 7 Optional: Football match Hertha BSC Berlin – SV Darmstadt 98 9

Sun 8 Transfer to The Hague 10


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HanseYachts

Sat 21 German Historical Museum 16

Sun 22 Leisure time 17

5th week: 23 - 31 May, 2016Page

Mon 23

Federal Academy for Security Policy (BAKS)

Opening event of the Asia-Pacific-Week

Transfer to Hamburg

17

Tue 24

Study tour Hamburg

Hamburg City Hall, Senate

International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS)

Die Zeit (German national newspaper)

Reception at the Senate’s guest house

17

Wed 25

Study tour Hamburg

AIRBUS

Bundeswehr Command and Staff CollegeGerman Institute for Global and Area Studies

Transfer to Berlin

18

Thu 26 Briefing at the FFO 19

Fri 27 Friedrich Ebert Foundation 19

Sat 28 Leisure time 20

Sun 29 Concert of Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester ; Leisure time 20

Mon 30 Farewell reception 20

Tue 31 Check-out, departure 20


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14.30 hrs Briefing by Sabine Seidler, Head of Divison ‘Global Planning and

Organisational Structures’ about organisational structures and working

procedures in the FFO

16.00 hrs Berlin city tour by bus

Starting point: Gertraudenstr. 10, 10178 Berlin (in front of Restaurant

‘Rotisserie Weingrün’)

18.30 hrs Optional: Reception on the occasion of the German-Korean Society’s

50th anniversary including the award of the Mirok Li Prize to Dr Theo

Sommer, former editor in chief of Die Zeit and former Co-Chairman of

the German-Korean Forum. Please note: only in German and Korean

language. Europasaal, FFO.

Wednesday, 27 April

Please bring your passports

09.00 hrs Visit to the FFO Crisis Reaction Centre

10.10 hrs Transfer to the Bundestag with Mr Souverein and Ms John

10.45 hrs Regist ration and securi ty check at Bundestag Ostportal

(Scheidemannstr./Friedrich-Ebert-Platz)

11.00 hrs Guided tour of the Bundestag

12.00 hrs Meeting with Edelgard Bulmahn, Vice-President of the Bundestag

13.00 hrs Visit to the plenary session of the Bundestag

13.15 hrs Lunch at the Bundestag canteen, Paul-Löbe-Haus

14.00 hrs Walk and cof fee break at Brandenburger Tor

15.45 hrs Regist ration at Jakob-Kaiser-Haus

Dorotheenstraße 100, 10117 Berlin

16.00 hrs Meeting with Niels Annen, Member of Parliament, Spokesman on

Foreign Affairs of the SPD Parliamentary Group, permanent member of

the parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs


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Thursday, 28 Apri l

09.15 hrs Meeting at the apartment complex

09.30 hrs Transfer to the Bundesrat (Chamber of the Federal States)

Leipziger Str. 3-4, 10117 Berlin

09.50 hrs Regist ration at the Bundesrat

10.00 hrs Guided tour of the Bundesrat and visit of the plenary hall, hosted by

Ruth Berkefeld, Parliamentary Relations.

11.00 hrs Briefing by Silke Podschull-Wellmann, head of the office for judicial

questions and parliamentary mediation.

12.00 hrs Transfer to the FFO

13.00 hrs Working lunch with Amb. Dr Norbert Riedel, Regional Director for Asia

and the Pacific in the FFO’s International Club

15.30 hrs Briefing by Christoph Wolfrum, Head of Division EU Policy Planning

Staff

Friday, 29 Apri l

09.15 hrs Meeting at the FFO

09.30 hrs Seminar on German and European history by Dr Alexander Claus

12.30 hrs Lunch in the FFO canteen

13.30 hrs Seminar on German and European history by Dr Alexander Claus

15.00 hrs Transfer to Topography of Terror

16.00 hrs Guided tour of Topography of Terror

Niederkirchnerstraße 8, 10963 Berlin


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Saturday, 30 April

10.00 hrs Meeting at Museum Alte Nationalgalerie

Bodestraße, 10178 Berlin

10.15 hrs Guided tour of Alte Nationalgalerie

11.45 hrs Leisure time

Sunday, 1 May

Al l day Leisure time

2nd week: 2nd – 8th May, 2016

Monday, 2 May

08.45 hrs Transfer by taxi to the Foreign Service Academy from the apartments

09.45 hrs Arr ival at the Foreign Service Academy

10.00 hrs Public speaking training at the Foreign Service Academy

12.30 hrs Lunch with German young diplomats

16.00 hrs Transfer by taxi back to the apartments

Tuesday, 3 May


08.30 hrs Briefing by Dr Jasper Wieck, Director of the Defense and Security

Policy Division

09.30 hrs Transfer to the Office of the Federal President

Bundespräsidialamt, Spreeweg 1, 10557 Berlin

10.00 hrs Briefing by Dr Klaus Vietze, Head of Division for Africa, Asia-Pacific

and International Development, Office of the Federal President


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11.15 hrs Transfer to the FFO

12.00 hrs Briefing by Ambassador Dr Thomas Fitschen, Director for the United

Nations, for international cooperation against terrorism and for cyber

foreign policy

13.15 hrs Lunch at the FFO canteen

14.30 hrs Briefing by Ralf Beste, Deputy Director of Policy Planning

16.00 hrs Briefing by Ambassador Sabine Sparwasser, Director General for

Africa, Asia, Latin America, Near and Middle East and Special

Representative of the Federal Government for Afghanistan and

Pakistan

Wednesday, 4 May

08.00 hrs German language class

09.05 hrs Transfer to the German Institute for International and Security Affairs

(SWP)

Ludwigkirchplatz 3-4, 10719 Berlin

09.30 hrs Discussion with Dr Felix Heiduk, Dr Alexandra Sakaki and Dr Christian

Becker, SWP Research Division Asia

11.00 hrs Discussion with Dr Isabelle Werenfels and Dr Guido Steinberg, SWP

Research Division Middle East and Africa

12.30 hrs Transfer to the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)

Rauchstraße 17, 10787 Berlin

13.00 hrs Discussion with Prof Dr Eberhard Sandschneider, Director of the

DGAP’s Research Institute

Thursday, 5 May

09.00 hrs Training in Mediation in International Conflict Management

12.00 hrs Lunch at GOODTIME Restaurant


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Hausvogteiplatz 11, 10117 Berlin

13.30 hrs Training in Mediation in International Conflict Management

Friday, 6 May


08.30 hrs Transfer to the German Federal Chancellery

Willy-Brandt-Straße 1, 10557 Berlin

09.00 hrs Briefing by Frank Hartmann, Director, Head of Division for Middle East,

Africa, Asia, Latin America in the Federal Chancellery

10.05 hrs Transfer to Potsdam

11.00 hrs Visit to the Hasso Plattner Institute

Prof.-Dr.-Helmert-Straße 2-3, 14482 Potsdam

13.00 hrs Lunch at Thai Restaurant LemonGras

Benkertstr. 21, 14467 Potsdam

14.15 hrs Transfer to Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam

14.30 hrs Briefing by Prof Dr Jürgen Kropp, Potsdam Institute für Climate Impact

Research. Head of Research Area Climate Change & Development,

Deputy Chair of Research Domain II: Climate Impacts & Vulnerabilities

16.05 hrs Transfer to the New Palace

Am Neuen Palais, 14469 Potsdam

16.30 hrs Guided tour of the New Palace

Saturday, 7 May

14.00 hrs Transfer to Olympiastadion

15.00 hrs Admiss ion into Olympiastadion

15.30 hrs Football match Hertha BSC Berlin against SV Darmstadt 98.


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Sunday, 8 May

Important: Do not forget your passports !

09.15 hrs Meeting at the apartments

09.30 hrs Transfer to The Hague

Afternoon Arrival at the hotel NH Atlantic Den Haag

Deltaplein 200, 2554 EJ Den Haag, The Netherlands

3rd week: 9th – 15th May, 2016

Monday, 9 May


09.00 hrs Departure from the hotel by bus

09.30 hrs Visit to the International Criminal Court (ICC)

14.00 hrs Visit to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons

(OPCW)

15.00 hrs Briefing by Amb. Israng on Germany’s role in the OPCW

16.00 hrs Visit to the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (formerly the

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY), briefing

by Judge Christoph Flügge

18.30 hrs Transfer to Brussels

21.00 hrs Arr ival at the hotel

NH Collection Brussels Centre, Boulevard Adolphe Max 7, 1000

Brussels

Tuesday, 10 May


08.30 hrs Transfer to the Permanent Representation of the Federal Republic of

Germany to the European Union

Rue Jacques de Lalaing 8-14, 1040 Brussels


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09.00 hrs Briefing by Mr Cornelius Huppertz,

10.00 hrs Transfer to the side entrance of the European External Action Service

(EEAS)

Petite Rue de la Loi, 1046 Brussels

10.15 hrs Arr ival and regist ration at the EEAS, welcome by Ms Nicole Meijer

10.30 hrs Briefing on EU - Asia relations and ASEM by Ms Veronica Cody, Head

of Division Horizontal Affairs Asia and Pacific

11.30 hrs Coffee break and division in sub groups

11.45 hrs EU - Southeast Asia relations and ASEAN by Mr Ranieri Sabatucci,

Head of Southeast Asia Division (meeting room LOI 02/372)

11.45 hrs EU - South Asia relations and SAARC by Ms Maria Castillo Fernandez,

Head of Division India, Nepal and Bhutan and Ms Paolo Pampaloni,

Head of Division Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Maldives

(meeting room SCHU 04/A495)

11.45 hrs EU – Japan relations by Mr Christoph Wiesner, Policy Officer Japan,

Japan, Korea, Australia and New Zealand Division (office CORT

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11.45 hrs EU – Korea relations with Mr Neal MacCall, Deputy Head of Division

Japan, Korea Australia and New Zealand (office CORT 04/512)

11.45 hrs EU – China relations and EU – Hong Kong relations by Mr Georg

Cunningham, Deputy Head of Division China, Hong Kong, Macao,

Taiwan and Mongolia (meeting room CORT 03/A522)

13.00 hrs Lunch

15.00 hrs Transfer to the European Commission

15.30 hrs Briefing by Mr Philippe Duponteil, European Commission, DG Trade,

Head of Unit C/1 (Far east)

16.30 hrs Briefing by Mr Peter Berz, European Commission, DG Trade, Head of

Unit C/2 (South and South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand)


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Wednesday, 11 May

08.00 hrs Arrival at NATO

08.30 hrs Briefing by Mr Ulrich Sante, Minister, Deputy Permanent

Representative, Permanent Delegation of the Federal Republic of

Germany to NATO

09.00 hrs Briefing by Mr Michael Rühle, Head, Energy Security Section,

Emerging Security Challenges Division

10.30 hrs Briefing by Mr Simon Herchen, Political Divison, Permanent Delegation

of the Federal Republic of Germany to NATO

12.00 hrs Lunch at the NATO canteen

Afternoon Transfer to the airport – dependent on the current situation at Brussels

Airport

17.50 hrs Flight from Brussels Zaventem back to Berlin (U2 4708)

Thursday, 12 May

07.45 hrs Transfer by taxi to the Foreign Service Academy from the apartments

08.45 hrs Arr ival at the Foreign Service Academy

09.00 hrs Public speaking and media training at the Foreign Service Academy

16.00 hrs Transfer by taxi back to the apartments

Friday, 13 May

14.30 hrs Seminar “Desperate Migration and Refugees – The Globalisation of

Displacement and the Way Forward” by Mr Kleinschmidt

18.00 hrs End of the seminar


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Saturday, 14 May

11.30 hrs Visit to the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum

14.30 hrs Visit to the Fernsehturm (Berlin TV Tower)

Sunday, 15 May

Optional

12.00 hrs Meeting with the participants of the 11th Seminar for Diplomats from

Latin America and the Caribbean at underground stop U Märkisches

Museum

12.30 hrs Parade of the Carnival of the Cultures

4th week: 16th – 22nd May, 2016

Monday, 16 May


06.46 hrs Underground train U8 from U Heinrich-Heine-Straße to Alexanderplatz

06.59 hrs Bus TXL from Alexanderplatz to Airport Berlin Tegel

07.27 hrs Arrival at the airport

09.20 hrs Flight from Berlin Tegel to Munich ( AB 6187)

10.30 hrs Arr ival at Munich Airport

12.00 hrs Check-in at the Maritim Hotel München

Goethestraße 7, 80336 München

14.00 hrs Guided tour of Deutsches Museum

Museumsinsel 1, 80538 München

16.30 hrs Guided tour of Residenz München

Residenzstraße 1, 80333 München

19.00 hrs Dinner at Hofbräuhaus

Platzl 9, 80331 München


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Tuesday, 17 May

08.00 hrs Transfer to the Goethe Institute

Dachauer Straße 122, 80637 München

08.30 hrs Welcome by Mr Johannes Ebert, General Secretary of the Goethe

Institute, briefing by Mr Benjamin Bergner, Internal Communication of

the Goethe Institute

10.00 hrs Transfer to the Bavarian State Chancellery

Franz-Josef-Strauß-Ring 1, 80539 München

10.30 hrs Briefing by Gunnar Wiegand, Directorate for European Policy and

International Relations, Bavarian State Chancellery

11.30 hrs Briefing by Dr Manfred Wolter, Head of Divison for Issues of Innovation

and Technology Policy, Biotechnology, Medical Technology at the

Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Media, Energy and

Technology

12.30 hrs Lunch at the Bavarian State Chancellery’s canteen

13.30 hrs Transfer to Siemens

Wittelsbacherplatz 2, 80333 München

14.00 hrs Briefing by Mr Tobias Dennehy, Senior Policy Advisor Asia Pacific,

Communications and Government Affairs, and Mr Ralf Pfitzner,

Corporate Development, Strategy Sustainability Office, Siemens AG

15.30 hrs Transfer to BMW

Petuelring 130, 80809 München

15.45 hrs Guided tour of the BMW plant

16.45 hrs Visit to BMW Welt

17.25 hrs Transfer to Munich Airport

19.30 hrs Flight from Munich Airport to Berlin Tegel (AB 6206)

20.45 hrs Arr ival at Berlin Tegel


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Wednesday, 18 May


09.00 hrs Attendance at the Business Conference of the German OSCE

Chairmanship: ‘Connectivity for Commerce and Investment’; FFO.

11.00 hrs Plenary: Opening by Foreign Minister Dr Frank-Walter Steinmeier

(Weltsaal)

11.30 hrs Plenary: Economic Connectivity – Opportunities for Cooperation and

Security (Weltsaal)

15.30 hrs Transfer to Berlin Partner

Fasanenstraße 85, 10623 Berlin

16.15 hrs Briefing by Carl-Philipp Wackernagel, Coordinator of the Berlin Start-

Up Unit

17.15 hrs Transfer to SoundCloud

Rheinsberger Str. 76, 10115 Berlin

18.00 hrs Briefing by Thom Cummings, Head of New Markets at SoundCloud

18.30 hrs Tour of the SoundCloud office facilities by Jane Parr-Burman and

Carol-Ann O'Hagan

Thursday, 19 May

08.40 hrs Transfer to the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute for

Telecommunications

Einsteinufer 37, 10587 Berlin

09.30 hrs Guided tour of the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute for

Telecommunications, presentation of the TiME Lab (Tomorrow‘s

immersive Media Experience Laboratory) and the 3IT (3D Innovation

Center) by Ms Kathleen Schröter


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13.30 hrs Visit to the Association of German Chambers of Industry and

Commerce (DIHK), briefing by Ms Vera Philipps and Ms Sophia

Krietenbrink

15.00 hrs Visit to the Federation of German Industries (BDI), briefing by Mr

Quirin Blendl on Industry 4.0

Friday, 20 May

08.45 hrs Meeting at the apartments

Heinrich-Heine-Straße 20, 10179 Berlin

09.00 hrs Transfer to Greifswald by bus

12.00 hrs Lunch at Brasserie "Hermann"

Gützkower Str. 1, 17489 Greifswald

13.00 hrs Transfer to Wendelstein 7-X experimental nuclear fusion reactor, Max

Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

Wendelsteinstraße 1, 17491 Greifswald

13.30 hrs Briefing by Dr Ralf Kleiber on nuclear fusion technology and research

at Wendelstein 7-X, guided tour of the institute and the device

16.00 hrs Visit to HanseYachts, guided tour of the yacht production facilities

Ladebower Chaussee 11, 17493 Greifswald

17.30 hrs Transfer to Berlin by bus

Saturday, 21 May

15.30 hrs Visit to the German Historical Museum

Unter den Linden 2, 10117 Berlin


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Sunday, 22 May

Al l day Leisure time

5th week: 23rd – 29th May, 2016

Monday, 23 May



09.10 hrs Transfer to the Federal Academy for Security Policy (BAKS)

Ossietzkystraße 44/45, 13187 Berlin

10.00 hrs Briefing by Thomas Wrießnig, Vice President of BAKS

12.00 hrs Lunch at the BAKS canteen

14.00 hrs Attendance at the opening of the Asia-Pacific Weeks

Breite Straße 29, 10178 Berlin

16.15 hrs Leisure time

19.20 hrs Meeting at Hauptbahnhof (Central train station)

19.42 hrs Transfer to Hamburg by train (ICE 1586), platform 7

21:24 hrs Arr ival at Hamburg Central Station

21.45 hrs Check-in at Hotel Alster-Hof

Esplanade 12, 20354 Hamburg

Tuesday, 24 May

08.30 hrs Walk to the Hamburg City Hall

Rathausmarkt 1, 20095 Hamburg


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12.30 hrs Welcome by Thomas Hambach, Brigadier General and Director of

Faculty

12.40 hrs Briefings on the German Armed Forces and its changes in light of

changed threat scenarios, on peace missions, new challenges in

security policy and ballistic missile defence

14.45 hrs Transfer to the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

Neuer Jungfernstieg 21, 20354 Hamburg

15.30 hrs Briefing by Prof Dr Patrick Köllner, Director of the GIGA Institute of

Asian Studies

18.00 hrs Transfer to Hamburg Central Station

18.36 hrs Transfer to Berlin by train (ICE 903), platform 8

20.19 hrs Arr ival at Berlin Central Station

Thursday, 26 May


09.30 hrs Briefing by Ms Heidrun Tempel, representative for foreign science

policy, communication of Germany and intercultural dialogue

Friday, 27 May

08.20 hrs Transfer to Friedrich Ebert Foundation

Hiroshimastraße 17, 10785 Berlin

09.00 hrs Briefing by Mr Jürgen Stetten, Head of Department Asia and the

Pacific, Friedrich Ebert Foundation

10.30 hrs End of the meeting

12.00 hrs Formal lunch, hosted by Daimler and Benz Foundation at Haus Huth

Alte Potsdamer Straße 5, 10785 Berlin


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PARTICIPANTS

First name Surname Mail address

1 Amreen Jahan [email protected]

2 Anna Marie Mae Guerra [email protected]

3 Chanthala Sengaloun [email protected]

4 Doungmonyrath Mon [email protected]

5 Fathimath Najwa [email protected]

6 Htet Htet Zaw [email protected]

7 John Kemakeza [email protected]

8 Kalthira Koompirochana [email protected]

9 Laura Sylvia Johanna [email protected]

10 Long Nguyen Hoang [email protected]

11 Omid Kamal [email protected]

12 Saritha Ranatunga [email protected]

13 Seonghyeon Cho [email protected]

14 Sonam Namgyel [email protected]

15 Takafumi Iida [email protected]

16 Tanu Priya [email protected]

17 Tanvir Ahmad Bhatti [email protected]

18 Yi Ka Cheng [email protected]

19 Yiliang Zhang [email protected]

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CONTACT DETAILS

Ambassador (ret.) Dr Norbert Baas, Programme Director

Mail: [email protected]

Mr Jan Souverein, Programme Assis tant

Tel. +49 (0)176 98 555 933


Ms Gina John , Trainee

Tel. +49 (0)176 8320 1669


Mr Patrick Heinz, Head of Training for International Diplomats

Tel. +49 (0) 30 1817 4829


Ms Iris Reinl, Deputy Head of Training for International Diplomats

Tel. +49 (30) 1817 4834


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