FRIDAY - MAY 27

- h.09.30 am / h.13.30 pm

Chairwomen:

Emma Bonino, Italy, MP, Radical Party Secretary (9,30-11,30)

Marie-Andrée BERTRAND, Canada, university professor,

criminology, IAL President (11,30-13,30)

A. Part one: introductory reports

a. Emma BONINO

introduction

b. Antonio ESCOHOTADO -Spain- historian

"Drugs and society"

c. Marco TARADASH -Italy- Mp, IAL executive secretary

"The failure of the prohibitionist strategy"

d. Ethan NADELMANN -USA- Professor at Princeton University

"The emergence of an alternative: evolution of the

anthiprohibitionist thought"

e. Arnold TREBACH -USA- President of the Drug Policy

Foundation

"Public speeches and the activity of the Clinton's

Administration"

f. Juan Tomas DE SALAS -Spain- editor of Cambio 16

"The Appeal of Cambio 16"

B. Part two: a new international drug policy as an alternative

to the failure of prohibitionism

a. Enrique GOMEZ HURTADO -Colombia- MP

"The boundaries of prohibitionism: democracy at risk in

Latin America"

b. Andrew WELLS, Australia, UNDCP Senior Legal Adviser

"U.N. activities and the control system foreseen by the

Conventions"

c. Giandonato CAGGIANO -Italy- S.I.O.I. Director

"The reform of the U.N. and the issue of the International

Conventions on drug"

d. Gianfranco DELL'ALBA -Italy- IAL coordinator

"A proposal to revise the U.N. Conventions"

- h.16.00 pm / h.20.00 pm

Part three: International campaign to revise the U.N.

International Conventions on drug

Chairman: Olivier DUPUIS

1. interventions:

a. Marie Andrée BERTRAND

b. Joao DE MENEZES FERREIRA, MP, Portugal

c. Eurico FIGUEIREDO, MP, Portugal

d Doru Viorel URSU, MP, Romania

e. Petar GOSEV, MP, Macedonia

f. Gregorio LANZA, MP, Bolivia

g. Elena POPTODOROVA, MP, Bulgaria

h. Fernando SANCHEZ DRAGO, editorialis, Spain

i. Arnold TREBACH, president of the Drugs Policy Foundation,

Usa

l. Maurizio TURCO, CoRA secretary, Italy

m. Antonio CONTARDO, IAL treasurer, Spain

n. Luiz YANEZ BARNUEVO, MP, Spain

o. Gabor NAGY, MP, Ungary

p. Irina HAKAMADA, MP, Russia

q. Jean-Luc ROBERT, European Parliament expert, Belgium

r. Vladimir LEPEKHIN, MP, Russia

2. Debate

SATURDAY - MAY 28

- h.09.30 am / h.13.30 pm

D. Part four: Drug policy in Italy. The referendum result as

the evidence of the public will for a new drug policy

Chairman: Marco TARADASH

Antonio MARTINO, Italy, Foreign Affairs Minister

Tiziana MAIOLO, Italy, MP

Tiziana PARENTI, Italy, lawyer, MP

Luciano VIOLANTE, Italy, MP, former president of the

Antimafia Commission

Luigi MANCONI, Italy, MP

Maurizio TURCO

Vanna BARENGHI, Italy, town councillor of the city of Rome,

Italy

E. Part five: A parlamentary tool for the revision of the

Conventions

Emma BONINO

F. Part six: Conclusions

Marco PANNELLA