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PFP Workshop On Industrial PlanningPrague, 20th and 21st October 1997The Czech Deputy Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Industry and Trade, Mr. Kovanda and Mr. Petricek will open the workshop. The workshop will be co-chaired by Dr. Dusan Strauch, President of the Administration of State Material Reserves of the Czech Republic and Mr. Christian Dosset, Chairman of the NATO Committee on Industrial Planning. The workshop, the first PFP workshop to be conducted by NATO's Industrial Planning Committee, draws also on the expertise of NATO's Economic Committee and Industrial Advisory Group. More than 70 participants from 23 NATO and Partner nations are expected to take part in the sessions to be conducted at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The PFP workshop will serve as a forum for the exchange of views on the contribution of industrial emergency preparedness in the development of defence and security policy. Subjects to be examined include: challenges of ensuring continued access to vital supplies in a global free market; and partnership between industry and government in the development of crisis management arrangements. This PFP activity is part of the programme of cooperation in civil emergency planning. Civil emergency planning activities focus on activities that contribute to the development of civil and democratic emergency planning structures, civil-military cooperation, civil aspects of crisis management and disaster prevention and humanitarian assistance. The workshop is supported by the NATO Division of Infrastructure, Logistics and Civil Emergency Planning and the Czech Administration of State Material Reserves. Journalists wishing more information on this workshop may contact Ms. Susan Pond tel: + 32-2/707.41.53 or Dr. Duan trauch tel. + 420.2/536176.
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