The parameters of a generic monitoring system were outlined. At the conclusion of the workshop, CMC engineers agreed to make a draft design for a generic nuclear energy monitoring system for review at the next Experts' Group meeting. The second workshop will be followed by visits to selected nations, institutes, industries, and organizations throughout the Asia Pacific region in early spring to present the Group's findings and promote acceptance of the generic model where desirable. In addition to the Experts' Workshop, the full Working Group plans to convene, probably in late May, to further examine nuclear energy-related topics. It is hoped that the meeting will take place at a nuclear power facility either in China or South Korea.
Discussions are underway to settle on a location and date.
The aim is to create a comprehensive roadmap of what's already being done or proposed to better educate the policy-making community and to better determine what still needs to be done. Once completed, this Handbook will be posted on the Web and continually updated. The first draft of a rough outline of such a paper has already been prepared and distributed to Working Group members and will be further developed at the next meeting. Participants highlighted the need for greater understanding in the region of just what preventive diplomacy is and is not, given the existing wide range of definitions and interpretations of the concept. It was noted that case studies examining previous examples of preventive diplomacy in action would help to clarify or operationalize the definition.