Details

8.00 a.m.Registration

8.30 a.m.Opening ceremony

Welcome remarks

H.E. Mr. Var Kim Hong, Senior Minister and Senior Advisor to

the Royal Government of Cambodia in charge of Border Affairs

and Executive Advisor to IRIC

Wolfgang Meyer, Country Representative, Konrad Adenauer Foundation

Welcome remarks

H. E. Frank M. Mann, German Ambassador to Cambodia (tbc)

8.55 a.m.Keynote Address and official opening

H. E. Sok An, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister in Charge of the Council of Ministers (confirmed)

9.25 a.m.Coffee break

9.50 a.m.International Treaties for the Protection of Investments

Dr. Thilo Rensmann LL.M., Professor of Law at the Universities of Bonn and Munich (confirmed)

10.45 a.m.Roundtable-Protection of investments in Cambodia

Moderator:

H.E. Mr. Var Kim Hong, Senior Minister and Senior Advisor to

the Royal Government of Cambodia in charge of Border Affairs

and Executive Advisor to IRIC

Panel Speakers:

Mr. Hang Sochivin, Deputy Director of Department of International Cooperation, Ministry of Commerce

Neak Oknha Kit Meng, President, Phnom Penh Chamber of

Commerce

Mr. Tassilo Brinzer, SE GLOBE Communications Ltd.

Mr. Kim Phalla, Director of the Department of Policy and Planning, Ministry of Economy and Finance

H.E. Mr. Sok Chenda, General Secretary of Cambodia

Development Council (CDC)

11.55 a.m.Reaction to the proceedings and closing of the workshop

H.E. Mr. Var Kim Hong, Senior Minister and Senior Advisor to

the Royal Government of Cambodia in charge of Border Affairs

and Executive Advisor to IRIC

12.30 p.m.Lunch at the Hotel

Participants:

Relevant Senate commission (5) and Staff (15), Relevant National Assembly commissions (18) and Staff (15), Ministry of Commerce (10), Ministry of Economy and Finance (10), Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (10), Office of Council of Ministers (10), International Relations Institute of Cambodia (25), Royal Academy of Cambodia (25), Municipality and Khan Authorities (8), Embassies (ca. 10), professors and students of law, economics and business (100), PhD Candidates at Royal Academy of Cambodia (50), Business Associations (10), Journalists (20),

World Bank, IMF, UNDP, GTZ, GTZ Investment Promotion Project, Mr. Daniel Haas, German Embassy.