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APPENDIX A - LIST OF WITNESSES

LIST OF WITNESSES

Associations and Individuals	Date	Meeting
36th Parliament, 2nd Session
Canadian International Development Agency	2000/04/04	35
Jean Couturier, Country Program Manager, Southern Europe, Caucasus, Central Asia
Stephen Wallace, Director, Southern Europe, Central Asia and Humanitarian Assistance
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
Robert Brooks, Deputy Director, Eastern Europe Division (Belarus, Caucasus, Central Asia, Moldova, Ukraine)
Ann Collins, Director, Eastern Europe Division
Jim Wright, Director General, Central, East and South Europe
Cameco Gold Ltd.	2000/04/11	39
Peter Homeniuk, President
Caspian Energy Consulting
Rob Sobhani, President, Professor, Georgetown University, Expert on Caspian and Middle East Persian Gulf Issues
SNC-LAVALIN Inc.
Daniel Grabowski, Area Manager
World Wide Minerals Ltd.
Paul Carroll, Spokesperson
Amnesty International (Canada)	2000/04/13	41
Alex Neve, Secretary General
Canadian Human Rights Foundation
Ria Holcak, Director, Central and Eastern Europe

Country Indicators for Foreign Policy Project, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University	2000/05/02	42
David Carment, Professor
Neil MacFarlane, Professor, Oxford University
Patrick Armstrong, Expert in questions related to the region of South Caucasus and Central Asia
Centre for Trade Policy and Law of Carleton University	2000/05/02	43
Phil Rourke, Program Director, CIS and Eastern Europe
Denis Leclaire, Professor, Saint Mary's University
Robert Cutler, Research Fellow, Institute of European and Russian Studies, Carleton University
Aga Khan Foundation of Canada	2000/05/04	44
Nazeer Ladhani, Chief Executive Officer
Canadian Society for International Health
Chris Rosene, Director, Trans Caucasus Health Information Project
Mining Watch Canada
Joan Kuyek, National Coordinator
As Individual
Bolat Nurgaliyev, Ambassador of the Republic of Kazakhstan to Canada and the United States

37th Parliament, 1st Session
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade	2001/04/26	13
Ann Collins, Director, Eastern Europe Division
Wendy Gilmour, Deputy Director, Belarus, Caucasus, Central Asia, Moldova, Ukraine (REE)
Ron Halpin, Director General. Central, East and South Europe Bureau

Group A: Meetings and visits of sites in Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia
ANKARA, TURKEY
Canadian Embassy (Ankara)	2000/05/07
Jean-Marc Duval, Ambassador Stuart Hughes, Counsellor Eric Walsh, Second Secretary
State Minister, Turkic Republics	2000/05/08
Abdulhaluk Çay, State Minister
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Turkey
Vefahan Ocak, Deputy Director General, Americas Dicle Kipuz, Deputy Director General, Policy Planning Hayri Erol, Deputy Director General, Bilateral Economic Affairs Unal Cevikoz, Deputy Director General, Caucasus and Central Asia Ercument Enc, Head of Department and Under Deputy Director General Bilaterial Economic Affairs Naci Sairbas, Head of Department and Under Deputy Director General, Energy Alphan Solen, Head of Department and Under Deputy Director General, Eastern European Affairs Necip Eguz, Head of Department and Under Deputy Director General, European Council and Human Rights Ahmet Arda, Head of Department and Under Deputy Director General, Research Ates Oktem, Head of Department and Under Deputy Director General, Northeastern Mediterranean Affairs Feyha Enc, Head of Department and Under Deputy Director General, Consular Affairs Hasan Aygun, Head of Department and Under Deputy Director General, Middle Eastern Affairs
President	2000/05/08
H.E. Süleyman Demirel, President, Republic of Turkey
Turkish Grand National Assembly, Foreign Affairs Commission
Kamran Inan, Chairman
Foreign Minister
Ismail Cem
ISTANBUL, TURKEY
Turkish Armenian Business Development Committee	2000/05/09
Selin Karakas, Committee Coordinator Kaan Soyak, Chairman
Black Sea Economic Cooperation Council
Ambassador Mustafa Aksin
Attidal Dogan Group of Companies
M. Kaan Dogan, Deputy General Manager
Honorary Consul for Canada
Banu Kirec Tesal
Arge Consulting
Dr. Yilmaz Arguden
Alarko Holding, Kuruçe Ime premises
Ishak Alaton Üzeyir Garih Dr. Oktay Varlier

BAKU, AZERBAIJAN
Deputy Ministry of Foreign Affairs	2000/05/10
Araz Azimov, Deputy Minister
Department for Europe, USA and Canada
Perviz Shahbazov, Deputy Head
Division for International Organizations
Elchin Amirbekov, Head of Division
Division for International Security Policy (including NATO)
Kamil Khasiev, Head of Division
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Vilayet Guliev, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Prime Minister
Artur Rasi-zade, Prime Minister
NGO representatives
Kim Perlow, Country Director, ISAR/AZERBAIJAN Lutful Kabir, Chief Technical Advisor, UNDP Peter Van Praagh, Director, New Democratic Institute for International Affairs, Azerbaijan Dr. Leila Yunus, Director, Institute for Peace and Democracy Arzu Abdullayeva, Chairwoman, Azerbaijan National Committee Mustafa Ghulam, Resident Representative, UNDP
State Committee for Refugees
Vice Prime Minister Ali Hassanov
Head of UNHCR office Baku
Didier Laye
Speaker of Parliament
M. Aleskerov

Chairman of Delegation, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly	2000/05/10
Sattar Safaroy
President
President Haydar Aliyev
Stonepay
Ekbkr Sem Ceferpur, President
BARDA, AZERBAIJAN
Chairman of Executive Committee in Barda	2000/05/11
Elman Allahverdiyev
UNHCR and other NGOs Representatives
Tomas Merils, Senior Construction Officer, Relief International Brian Coulson, Logistics Officer, Relief International Ulvi Ismail, Senior Field Clerk, United National High Commissioner for Refugees
TBILISI, GEORGIA
OSCE	2000/05/12
Ambassador Jean-Michel Lacombe Ivar Vikki, Deputy Head of OSCE Mission to Georgia
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Irakli Menagarishvili, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee
Mrs. Nino Burjanadze, Chair
Committee on Foreign Relations
Givi Shugarov, First Deputy Chairman
Chairman of Parliament
Zurab Zhvania
State Minister
Vazha Lortkipanidze

Department of Relations with the World Trade Organization	2000/05/12
Ioseb Abashidze, Deputy Head of Department Levan Lomidze, Head of Department of Relations with WTO
Centre for Trade Policy and Law, Carleton University
Nicolas K. Temnikov, Senior Advisor
Georgia Green Movement
Rusudan Simonidze, Executive Director
W.R. Hines and Associates Inc. International Trade and Economic Consultants
W. Roy Hines, President
Shorebank Advisory Services
Luc Vaillancourt, Country Manager for Loan Development, Caucasus SME Finance Program
Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association
Tinatin Khidasheli, President
TSKHINVALI, GEORGIA
Tskhinvali Region	2000/05/13
Loudwig Chibirov, Head of Tskhinvali region
YEREVAN, ARMENIA
From the Canadian Embassy	2000/05/14
Rodney Irwin, Ambassador
Karen Matthias, Third Secretary
Honorary Counsul
Artashes Emin

Representatives of NGOs	2000/05/15
Dr. Natalie Martirossian, Helsinki Citizens Assembly Anahit Bayandur, Helsinki Citizens Assembly Avetik Ishkhanyan, Chairman, Armenian Helsinki Committee Edward Mouradian, Attorney at Law, International Legal Consulting Inc. Larisa Alaverdyan, Executive Director, Armenia, Fund Against Violation of Law Levon Nercissian, Sakharov Foundation
National Assembly
Achot Khatchatrian, President
Representatives of International Organizations
Katica Cekalovic, UN Coordinator, UNDP Resident Representative, Armenia Roy S. Reeve, Ambassador, Head of Office, Yerevan Organisation for Security and Co-Operation in Europe Lise S. Boudreault, Head of Delegation, International Committee of the Red Cross Tom Delaney, USAID
International Centre for Human Development
Armen Darbinian
Minister of Economy and Finance
Levon Barkhoudarian
President
Robert Kocharian
Armenian Centre for National and International Studies
Raffi Hovannisian

Representatives of International Organizations	2000/05/15
Joseph Courtright, IMF Advisor, Central Bank of the Republic of Armenia
George Anayiotos, IMF Resident Representative
Owaise Saadat, World Bank Resident
Representatives from Embassies to Armenia
Julian Lyon, Vice-Consul, British Embassy
Rudolf Berkner, Chargé d’affaires, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany
Michel Legras, Ambassador, Embassy of France
Panayotis Zografos, Ambassador, Embassy of Greece
Mark Tauber, Counsellor, Embassy of the United States of America
Group B: Meetings and visits of sites in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan
Kazakhstan
From the Canadian Embassy (Almaty)	2000/05/08
Gerald Skinner, Ambassador
Andreas R. Weichert, Trade Commissioner
Terrance Pinell, Naval Attaché
As Individual
Askar Duzenov, Consultant Business Development
Aga Khan Development Network
Hakim N. Feerasta, Resident Representative
Centre for Non-Proliferation Studies
Margarita Sevcik, Office Manager, Programme Co-ordinator
Hurricane Kumkol Munai JSC
Bernard Isautier – HHL CEO and President
Askar Alshinbaev – HHL BoD Member
Jim Doak – HHL BoD Member
Robert Kaplan – HHL BoD Member
Lou MacEachern - HHL BoD Member
Nurzhan Subkhanderdin - HHL BoD Member	2000/05/08
MarioThomas – HKM President
Vladimir Vasilenko – HKM Marketing Director
Issak Sekeyev – HKM Public Relations Manager
Nurlan Bizakov –ShNOS BoD Chairman
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development	2000/05/09
John Kur, Office of the Executive Director for Canada
Michael Davey, Director
Human Rights Group and Rule of Law Conflict Management Centre
Lada Zimina, Programme Coordinator
Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Ulrich Schöning, Ambassador, Head of OSCE Centre in Almaty
United Nations Development Programme
Roy D. Morey, Resident Representative
Almaty’s Business Club
Glenn Catchpole, Cameco
Bill Gilliland, Macleod Dixon
Vladimir Tolochko, Cameco
Uzbekistan
Uzbek Parliament (Oliy Majlis)	2000/05/10
Faruha Mukhitdinova, Deputy Speaker
Sayora Rashidova, Parliamentary Ombudsman for Human Rights
Erkin Vakhidov, Chairman of the Committee on Inter-Parliamentary Relations
Aman Alimkjanov, Chief of the Secretariat of Oliy Majlis
Fayzullo Abdurakhmanov, Chief of the International Department of the Oliy Majlis
Rustam Kasymov, Member of the Committee on Foreign Relations

Canadian Honorary Consul	2000/05/10
Alexander Anotonov
Uzbek Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations
Elyor Ganiev, Minister
Rauf Mukhamedov, Deputy Minister
Valdimir Radjapov, Deputy Minister
Uzbek Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Abdulaziz Kamilov, Minister
Eson Mustafayev, Deputy Minister
Rustam Tukhtabayev, Deputy Minister
Ismatullo Fayzullayev, Executing Chief of the America’s Department
Ravshan Nazarkulov, America’s Department
Business Women’s Association
Takjihon Saidikramova, Chair
Kazakhstan Centre for Conflict Management
Elena Sadovskaya, Director
Interlegal/Kazakhstan Civil Foundation, Political and Legal Research
Sergey Zlotnikov, President
KRIDI
Grenada Kurochknina, Chair
Uzbekistan’s Internews
Karim Bahriev, Lawyer
*Women’s Crisis Centre "Sabo"*
Natalya Kurganovskaya, Chair
United States Agency for International Development (Regional Mission for Central Asia)
Jennifer Brick, Democracy Specialist
Uzbekistan Public Education Centre
Natalya Sekret, Director of Public Relations
Kazakhstan
Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan	2000/05/11
Zhurmahan Tuyakhai, Speaker of the Parliament, Majilis
Nurbakh T. Rustemov, M.P., Secretary of the Committee on International Affairs, Defence and Security of the Majilis
Oralbai Abdukarimov, Speaker of the Senate
Saken S. Seidualiev, Senator, Committee on International Affairs, Defence and Security
Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Nursultan Nazarbayev, President
Erlan Idrissov, Foreign Minister
Kyrgyzstan
Government of Kyrgyzstan	2000/05/12
Askar Akayev, President
Vladimir Silayeo, Deputy Prime Minister
Parliament of Kyrgyzstan
Abdygany Erkevayev, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly
Altay Borubaev, Speaker of the People’s Representatives Assembly
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Muratbek Imanaliev, Foreign Minister
Bureau on Human Rights and the Rule of Law
Natalia Ablova, Director
Canadian Bank Note International, Central Asia Ltd.	2000/05/13
Chris Mueller, General Manager
Kumtor Cameco Corporation
Terry V. Rogers, President
Les Adrian, Vice-President, Environment