From 18-20 April 2010, the InterAction Council held its 28th Annual Plenary Meeting in Hiroshima, Japan
List of Participants
IAC Members
1. H.E. Mr. Helmut Schmidt, Honorary Chairman (former
Chancellor of Germany) (by video participation)
2. H.E. Mr. Malcolm Fraser, Honorary Chairman (former
Prime Minister of Australia)
3. H.E. Mr. Ingvar Carlsson, Co-chairman (former Prime
Minister of Sweden)
4. H.E. Mr. Jean Chrétien, Co-chairman (former Prime
Minister of Canada)
5. H.E. Mr. Andreas van Agt (former Prime Minister of the
Netherlands)
6. H.E. Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (former Prime Minister
of Malaysia)
7. H.E. Mr. Yasuo Fukuda (former Prime Minister of
Japan)
8. H.E. Mr. Goh Chok Tong (former Prime Minister of the
Republic of Singapore)
9. H.E. Mr. Lee Hong-Koo (former Prime Minister of
Korea)
10. H.E. Mr. Abdel Salam Majali (former Prime Minister of
Jordan)
11. Sir James Fitz-Allen Mitchell (former Prime Minister
of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)
12. H.E. Mr. Benjamin William Mkapa (former President of
Tanzania)
13. H.E. Mr. Tomiichi Murayama (former Prime Minister of
Japan) (ad hoc member)
14. H.E. Mr. Tung Chee Hwa (former Chief Executive, Hong
Kong Administration)
15. H.E. Mr. Franz Vranitzky (former Chancellor of
Austria)
Associate Members
16. H.E. Sheikh Abdul-Aziz Z. Al-Quraishi, former Governor
of SAMA (Central Bank) (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)
17. Prof. Thomas Axworthy, Chair of the Centre for the
Study of Democracy, Queen’s University (Canada)
18. H.E. Mr. Jean André François-Poncet, President of the
Senatorial Committee on Regional Planning (France)
19. Dr. Lee Seung-yun, former Deputy-Prime Minister
(Korea)
20. Mr. Seiken Sugiura, former Minister of Justice
(Japan)
Special Guests
21. Dr. Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor of the city of Hiroshima
(Japan)
22. Dr. Abdulrahman H. Al-Saeed, Advisor – The Royal
Court, President of Center for Specialized Studies
(Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)
23. Dr. Hans Blix, former Chairman of the UN Monitoring,
Verification and Inspection Commission (Sweden)
24. H.E.Mr. Luiz Augusto de Castro Neves, (Representing
Mr. José Sarney), Ambassador of Brazil to Japan
(Brazil)
25. Mr. Sam Nunn, former US Senator and Chairman of the
Senate Armed Services Committee (USA)
26. His Eminence Monshu Koshin Ohtani, Past President of
Japan Buddhist Federation, Monshu of Jodo Shinshu
Hongwanji-ha (Japan)
27. Ambassador Alexander Panov, (Representing Mr. Yevgeny
Primakov), Rector of Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs (Russia)
28. Dr. Shen Dingli, Director of Center for American
Studies, Executive Dean of Institute of International
Studies, Fudan University (China)
29. Mr. Masajuro Shiokawa, former Minister of Finance
(Japan)
30. Mr. Jitsuro Terashima, Chairman, Japan Research
Institute (Japan)
31. Mr. Karsten D. Voigt, (Representing Honorary Chairman
Helmut Schmidt), former Coordinator of German-North
American Cooperation at the German Federal Foreign Office
(Germany)
High-level Experts
32. Dr. Rebecca E. Johnson, Executive Director of the
Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy (UK)
33. Prof. Katsuko Kataoka, Professor Emeritus, Hiroshima
University (Japan)
34. Dr. Tilman Ruff, Chair of International Campaign to
Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Australia)
35. Dr. Randy Rydell, Senior Political Affairs Officer,
Office of the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs,
United Nations (UN)
The following leaders intended participation in the 28th
Annual Meeting but were forced to cancel their travel due
to a domestic political reason or the Icelandic volcanic
eruption:
36. H.E. Mr. Seyed Mohammad Khatami (former
President), Islamic Republic of Iran
37. H.E. Mr. Olusegun Obasanjo (former President),
Nigeria
38. H.E. Mr. Jerry John Rawlings (former Head of State),
Republic of Ghana
39. Baroness Jay, Chairperson of the Overseas Development
Institute, London, UK
40. Lord David Owen, (former Foreign Minister), UK
The InterAction Council extends its warmest
appreciation to the generous support of the Governments
of Australia, Canada, Japan and Korea as well as of the
Prefecture and the City of Hiroshima.