The InterAction Council held its 23rd Annual Plenary Meeting at Stanford University, California, from 22 to 23 July 2005.
This meeting was comprised of the following sessions:
- Present State of the World
- Nuclear Disarmament and Small Arms Trade
- Human Rights and Responsibilities in the Age of Terrorism
List of Participants
IAC Members
1. H. E. Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, Honorary Chairman
(Australia)
2. H. E. Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson, Co-chairman
(Sweden)
3. H. E. Prime Minister Andries M. van Agt (the
Netherlands)
4. H. E. Prime Minister Esko Aho (Finland)
5. H. E. President Oscar Arias (Costa Rica)
6. H. E. Prime Minister Valdis Birkavs (Latvia)
7. H. E. Prime Minister James Bolger (New Zealand)
8. H. E. Prime Minister Jean Chrétien (Canada)
9. H. E. President Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie
(Indonesia)
10. H. E. President Jamil Mahuad (Ecuador)
11. H. E. Prime Minister Abdel Salam Majali (Jordan)
12. H. E. President Jerry John Rawlings (Ghana)
13. H. E. President Mary Robinson (Ireland)
14. H. E. President George Vassiliou (Cyprus)
15. H.E. President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Léon
(Mexico)
Associate Members
16. Prof. Thomas Axworthy, Chairman, Asia Pacific
Foundation of Canada (Canada)
17. Mr. Jean André François-Poncet, President of the
Senatorial Committee on Regional Planning (France)
18. Mr. Yasuo Fukuda, M. P., Former Chief Cabinet
Secretary (Japan)
19. Baroness Jay, Chairman of the Overseas Development
Institute, London (U. K.)
20. Dr. Lee Seung-Yun, Former Deputy Prime Minister of
Korea (Korea)
21. Mr. Robert S. McNamara, Former Secretary of Defense,
Former President of World Bank (U. S. A.)
Deputy Secretary-General
22. Prof. Nagao Hyodo, Professor, Tokyo Keizai University
(Japan)
Special Guests
23. Dr. Caroline Anstey, Director, World Bank (U. K.)
24. Dr. Lester Brown, President, Earth Policy Institute
(U. S. A.)
25. Mr. Luis Alberto Cordero, The Executive Director of
the Arias Foundation (Costa Rica)
26. Dr. Amitai Etzioni, Founder and director of the
Communitarian Network, Professor at
George Washington University (U. S. A.)
27. Prof. Kirk O. Hanson, Executive Director, Markkula
Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara
University (U. S. A.)
28. Prof. Karl Kaiser, Director Emeritus, German Council
on Foreign Relations, Berlin; Ralph I.
Straus Visiting Professor, J. F. Kennedy School of
Government and Weatherhead Center for
International Affairs, Harvard University (Germany)
29. Ambassador Bill Lane, Former Ambassador to Australia,
Co-founder and owner of Sunset
Publishing (U. S. A.)
30. Mr. William P. Laughlin, Founder and Chairman, Saga
Foundation (U. S. A.)
31. Prof. Mitsuhei Murata, Professor, Tokai Gakuen
University (Japan)
32. Dr. William Potter, Director, Center for
Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of
International Studies (U. S. A.)
33. Mr. Qian Qichen, Former Deputy Prime Minister, Former
Foreign Minister (China)
34. Ambassador Makram Queisi (Jordan)
35. Mr. Sun Joun-yung, Former U. N. Ambassador (Korea)
36. Prof. Teizo Taya, Professor, Rikkyo University (Japan)