NDU&CHDSClub/Argentina

The NDU&CHDSClub/Argentina (Club of Argentine Graduate Students from the Center of Hemispheric Defense Studies and other US. National Defense University training centers) with the cooperation of the CHDS graduate students from Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay and the sponsorship of the Defense Ministry, the Army, Navy and Air Force of Argentina, has organized the First Regional Symposium on International Defense and Security entitled "Defense in the Subregion. New Challenges - New Responses," to be held in the City of Buenos Aires on April 2 through 5, 2001.

The purpose is to seek common issues in the subregion, to facilitate cooperation among countries in order to face the new challenges to Defense. Solutions should be found in the framework of a set of laws and regulations providing for the use of all of States' resources in a combined and joint manner. Regional defense industry capabilities in the South Cone may supplement the above potential activity.

1. Speakers: experts on the matter to be discussed.
2. Panel members: Officials and experts involved in the International Defense and Security decision-making processes, members of congress from the Defense, International Security, Foreign Affairs and similar Committees from the South Cone countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay), and guests from other countries in the hemisphere.
3. Audience: decisionmakers, advisors and experts on defense and/or international security matters currently in office, opinion leaders and specialized academicians from Universities in the Subregion.