When: Thursday, 3. June 2010 08.30-13.00
To: Thursday, 3. June 2010
Where: Oslo, Literature House, Wergelandsveien 29,
Host: Norwegian Helsnki Committee
Program[1]
08.30 Registration and coffee
09.00 Welcome. Recognition and remembrance of the
Srebrenica genocide in Norway Bjørn Engesland, Secretary-
General, Norwegian Helsinki Committee
09.10 Opening
State Secretary Gry Larsen, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
09.20 Srebrenica – the view of the Government of Bosnia
and Herzegovina
Elma Kovacevic, Ambasador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to
Norway
09.30 Genocide has been proved in courts of law
Edina Becirevic, University of Sarajevo, author of the book
“Genocide on the River Drina”
10.00 Criminal prosecution: Unfinished business at the
international and domestic levels
Gunnar M. Ekeløve-Slydal, Deputy Secretary-General, Norwegian
Helsinki Committee
10.30 Norwegian assistance to end impunity for war crimes
in BiH
Nils Ragnar Kamsvåg, Head of Western Balkans section,
Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
10.50 Coffee Break
11.00 Srebrenica today
Hasan Hasanovic, Director of the Potocari Memorial Centre*
11.30 Recognition and denial of genocide in Serbia
Sonja Biserko, chairwoman of the Helsinki Committee for Human
Rights in Serbia
11.50 Recognition and denial of genocide in Bosnia and
Herzegovina.
Aleksandra Letic, Secretary-General, Helsinki Committee for
Human Rights in Republika Srpska, BiH
12.10 Panel: Comments, questions and recommendations
to governments
Chair: Bjørn Engesland, Norwegian Helsinki Committee
Sonja Biserko, Edina Becirevic
Naida Softic, Board Member, Helsinki Committee for Human
Rights in BiH
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13.00 End
Free entrance.
Please confirm your participation to obl@nhc.no in advance.
[1] *=To be confirmed. The program maybe subject to changes
and updates.
