The International Conference on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe held in Luxembourg on May 24-25, 2007 has been promoted to the status of a permanent forum. The level of its participants made the conference the largest and most authoritative event to address the issue of nuclear non-proliferation in the last decade.
Leading experts from 14 nations attended the conference, including Mohamed ElBaradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Sergey Kirienko, Head of the Russian Federal Agency for Atomic Energy and former Prime Minister of the Russian Federation; Rolf Ekeus, High Commissioner on National Minorities of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and Board Chairman of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute; Nikolay Laverov, Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences; William Perry, Member of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission (WMDC), Professor (Stanford University), former U.S. Secretary of Defense; and Hans Blix,Chairman of the WMDC and former IAEA Director General.
