Pour compléter mon commentaire précédent, voici le programme, affiché sur le site de la Commission Trilatérale à l’adresse : http://www.trilateral.org/annmtgs/programs/07brussels.htm de la réunion de mars dernier de cette Commission :

Program of the 2007 Annual Meeting

Brussels, Belgium-March 16-19, 2007

Conference Chairman : Peter Sutherland, European Chairman, Trilateral Commission ; Chairman, BP p.l.c., Chairman, Goldman Sachs International ; Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Migrations

Host Country Chairman : Daniel Janssen ; Chairman of the Board, Solvay, Brussels ; Honorary Chairman, Federation of Enterprises of Belgium

Friday, March 16

18:30

Opening cocktail reception at the Belgian Parliament

Welcome address : Herman De Croo, President, Chamber of Representatives, Minister of State

Saturday, March 17

9:00

Formal Opening by the Trilateral Chairmen

Peter Sutherland, European Chairman, Trilateral Commission ; Chairman, BP p.l.c., Chairman, Goldman Sachs International ; Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Migrations

Allan E. Gotlieb, Deputy North American Chairman, Trilateral Commission ; Senior Advisor, Bennett Jones LLP, Toronto, ON ; Chairman, Sotheby’s, Canada ; former Canadian Ambassador to the United States

Yotaro Kobayashi, Pacific Asia Chairman, Trilateral Commission, Chief Corporate Advisor, Fiji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo

9:10 - 10:30

WHY BELGIUM MATTERS

Chairman : Maurice Lippens, Chairman, Fortis, Brussels

Panel :

Karel De Gucht, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belgium

Jean-Luc Dehaene, Member of the European Parliament ; former Prime Minister of Belgium ; former Vice Chairman of the European Convention

Karel Van Miert, former Member, European Commission (Competition Policy)

10:45 - 12:45

EUROPE’S INTERNAL DYNAMICS

Chairman : Peter Sutherland

Moderator : Mario Monti, President and Professor Emeritus, Bocconi University, Milan ; Chairman, BRUEGEL and of ECAS, Brussels ; former Member of the European Commission (Competition Policy)

Panel :

Jean-Claude Trichet, President, European Central Bank, Frankfurt/Main ; former Governor, Banque de France

Ernest-Antoine Seillière, President, BUSINESSEUROPE, Brussels ; former President, MEDEF, France

Reiner Hoffmann, Deputy Secretary General, European Trade Union Congress (ETUC), Brussels

12:45 - 14:15

Luncheon

THE CHALLENGE OF CORRUPTION FOR INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT

Chair : Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., Chairman, Swiss Re America Holding Corporation, Washington, DC ; former Vice Chairman, Board of Governors, U.S. Federal Reserve System

Speaker : Paul A. Volcker, Honorary North American Chairman and former North American Chairman, Trilateral Commission ; former Chairman, Wolfensohn & Co., Inc., New York ; Frederick H. Schultz Professor Emeritus, International Economic Policy, Princeton University ; former Chairman, Board of Governors, U. S. Federal Reserve System

14:30 - 17:00

THE TRILATERAL COUNTRIES’ FOREIGN AND SECURITY POLICIES

Chair : Andrzej Olechowksi, Deputy European Chairman, Trilateral Commission ; Founder, Civic Platform ; former Chairman, Bank Handlowy ; former Minister of Foreign Affairs and of Finance of Poland, Warsaw

Panel :

Henry A. Kissinger, Lifetime Trustee, Trilateral Commission, Washington, DC ; Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc., New York, NY ; former U.S. Secretary of State ; former U.S. Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs

Javier Solana, Secretary General of the European Council and High Representative for EU Common Foreign and Security Policy

Sadako Ogata, President, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Tokyo ; former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

19:00 - 22:00

Reception and dinner at the European Parliament at the invitation of Hans-Gert Pöttering, President of the European Parliament

Welcome address : Kurt Lauk, Member of the European Parliament (EPP Group-CDU) ; Chairman, Globe Capital Partners, Stuttgart ; President, Economic Council of the CDU Party, Berlin ; former Member of the Board, DaimlerChrysler, Stuttgart

Speaker : José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission ; former Prime Minister of Portugal

Sunday, March 18

9:00 - 10:30

TRILATERAL TASK FORCE REPORT DISCUSSION ON ENERGY SECURITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE

Chair : Hartley Richardson, James Richardson & Sons, Ltd., Winnipeg, Canada

Task Force Authors :

John Deutch, Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA ; former Director of Central Intelligence ; former U. S. Deputy Secretary of Defense

Anne Lauvergeon, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Areva NC, and Chief Executive Officer of Areva, Paris

Widhyawan Prawiraatmadja, Head of Corporate Planning and Business Development, PT Pertamina (Persero), Jakarta

10:30 - 12:30

Sub-group discussions with Task Force Report authors

12:30 - 14:00

Luncheon

THE FUTURE OF AN OPEN WORLD TRADE SYSTEM

Chair : Peter Sutherland

Speaker : Peter Mandelson, Member of the European Commission (Trade), Brussels ; former Member of the British Parliament ; former Secretary of State to Northern Ireland and for Trade and Industry

14:15 - 16:45

AN EMERGING EAST ASIA COMMUNITY IN GLOBAL GOVERNANCE

Chairman : Yotaro Kobayashi, Pacific Asia Chairman, Trilateral Commission, Chief Corporate Advisor, Fiji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo

Moderator : Jesus Estanislao, President and Chief Executive Officer, Institute of Corporate Directors/Institute of Solidarity in Asia, Manila ; former Minister of Finance of the Philippines

Panel :

Wu Jianmin, President, China Foreign Affairs University ; Executive Vice President, China National Association for International Studies ; President, International Bureau of Exhibition ; Under Secretary General and Spokesman, National Committee of the CPPCC

Han Sung-Joo, Chairman, International Policy Studies Institute of Korea ; President, Seoul Forum for International Affairs ; Professor Emeritus, Korea University, Seoul : former Korean Minister of Foreign Affairs ; former Korean Ambassador to the United States

Hitoshi Tanaka, Senior Fellow, Japan Center for International Exchange ; former Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs

18:30 - 19:30

Reception at the Royal Palace at the invitation of H.M.H. the King of the Belgians

Welcome address : H.R.H. Prince Philippe of Belgium

20:00 - 22:00

Dinner at the Palais d’Egmont hosted by Karel De Gucht, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belgium

Speaker : Anne-Marie Neyts, Member of the European Parliament ; former Federal Minister of Belgium

Monday, March 19

8:45 - 9:45

NATO AND THE TRANS-ATLANTIC RELATIONSHIP

Chair : Bill Graham, Member of the Canadian Parliament ; former Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs and of National Defense

Speaker : Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Secretary General, NATO

Respondent : Richard Holbrooke, Vice Chairman, Perseus, LLC, New York, NY ; Counselor, Council on Foreign Relations ; former U.S. Ambassador to the UN ; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs and for East Asian and Pacific Affairs ; former U.S. Ambassador to Germany

10:00 - 12:30

THE CHANGING CONTOURS OF THE MIDDLE EASTERN LANDSCAPE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR TRILATERAL COUNTRIES

Moderator and Trilateral Respondent : Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, NY ; former Director, Policy Planning, U.S. Department of State ; former Director of Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution

Speakers :

Adil Abd al-Mahdi, Vice President of the Republic of Iraq H.R.H. Prince El Hassan bin Talal, President, Arab Thought Forum, Jordan

12:00

Closing Chairmen’s Statements

END OF THE MEETING

(The 2008 annual plenary meeting will be held in Washington, D.C. on April 25-28)

[fin du programme]

La question de l’énergie, indissociable d’ailleurs de la géopolitique du Moyen-Orient, a donc occupé une place de choix. A remarquer également la participation directe des pouvoirs politique, administratif et financier. L’ONG qu’est la Trilatérale est donc devenue, de fait, une institution quasi-officielle.