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Program-US-UA Working Group Yearly Summit III

US-UA Working Group Yearly Summit III
Providing Ukraine with an Annual Report Card

June 18, 2015
Washington DC

Venue: The University Club of Washington DC/1135 16th Street [Embassy Row]

8:00 AM – 8:30 AM Registration

8:30 AM – 8:45 AM Word of Welcome

Featured Speaker:

  • (Senior Officer/Ukrainian Embassy to the United States)

8:45 AM – 9:55 AM Plenary Session I

Theme: Robust Democratic Politics – Assessing Ukraine”s Progress/Regress

Moderator:

  • Orest Deychakiwsky (US Helsinki Commission)

Panelists:

  • Steven Nix (International Republican Institute)
  • Laura Jewett (National Democratic Institute)
  • David Kramer (Freedom House)
  • Nadia Diuk (National Endowment for Democracy)

Issues to Consider:

  • Fair Elections
  • Free Media
  • Respect for Human Rights
  • Strong Civil Society

9:55 AM – 11:10 AM Plenary Session II

Theme: Developed Market Economics – Assessing Ukraine”s Progress/Regress

Moderator:

  • Andrew Bihun (The Washington Group)

Panelists:

  • Myron Rabiy (Dentons LLP)
  • Temuri Yakobashvili (New International Leadership Institute)
  • James Kirchick (Foreign Policy Initiative)
  • Robert Orttung (George Washington University
  • Morgan Williams (US-Ukrainian Business Council)

Issues to Consider:

  • Sound Fiscal Policy
  • Sound Monetary Policy
  • Appropriate Deregulation/Privatization
  • General Business Transparency

11:10 AM – 11:20 AM Coffee Break

11:10 AM – 12:30 PM Roundtable Plenary Session III

Theme: Ever Greater General Security – Assessing Ukraine”s Progress/Regress

Moderator:

  • William Courtney (RAND Corporation)

Panelists:

  • John Herbst (Atlantic Council)
  • Steven Blank (American Foreign Policy Council)
  • Glen Howard (Jamestown Foundation)
  • Phillip Karber (Potomac Foundation)

Issues to Consider:

  • Secure Borders
  • Modernized Military Industrial Complex
  • Professionalized Armed Forces
  • Reliable Allies

12:30 PM – 1:10 PM Working Lunch

Theme: Why a Free, Stable and Prosperous Ukraine Matters-UA Gov”t Perspective

Chair:

  • Mykhailo Sawkiw (Ukrainian National Information Service)

Featured Speaker:

  • Andrij Lewus (Deputy Chair of National Security Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine)

1:10 PM – 2:25 PM Roundtable Plenary Session IV

Theme: Ever Greater Energy Security – Assessing Ukraine”s Progress/Regress

Moderator:

  • Ilan Berman (American Foreign Policy Council)

Panelists:

  • Keith Smith (Center for European Policy Analysis)
  • Robert Bensh (Pelicourt)
  • Matt Czekaj (Jamestown Foundation)
  • Morgan Williams (US-Ukrainian Business Council)
  • Stephen Blank (US Army War College)

Issues to Consider:

  • Expanding Domestic Production
  • Improving Transport Capacity
  • Enlarging Storage Capacity
  • Increasing Conservation

2:25 PM – 3:35 PM Roundtable Plenary Session V

Theme: Viable Social Cohesion – Assessing Ukraine”s Progress/Regress

Moderator:

  • John O”Keefe (Open World Leadership Center)

Panelists:

  • Joanna Rohozinska (National Endowment for Democracy)
  • Taras Kuzio (University of Alberta/Johns Hopkins University)
  • Andrea Chalupa (Digital/Maidan)
  • Ayla Bakkalli (US Representative of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People)

Issues to Consider:

  • Stable Inter-Ethnic Relations
  • Stable Inter-Faith Relations
  • Stable Class Relations
  • Manageable Regional Differences

3:35 PM – 3:40 PM Coffee Break

3:40 PM – 4:50 PM Roundtable Plenary Session VI

Theme: Established National Identity – Assessing Ukraine”s Progress/Regress

Moderator:

  • William Miller (Woodrow Wilson International Center)

Panelists:

  • William Taylor (United States Institute of Peace)
  • Roman Popadiuk (Morgan Lewis Consulting)
  • Oleksandr Potiekhin (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
  • Ostap Kryvdyk (UA National Security and Defense Council)

Issues to Consider:

  • A Sense of Common History
  • A Sense of Common Culture
  • A Sense of a Common Future
  • Ability to Assimilate the “Other”

4:50 PM – 5:30 PM Closing Remarks Ceremony

Theme: Why a Free, Stable and Prosperous Ukraine Matters—US Government Perspective

Chair:

  • Nadia McConnell (US-Ukraine Foundation)

Featured Speakers:

  • Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ) (Chair of the Subcommittee on Defense Appropriations) [Invited]

6:30 PM – 8:30 PM Patrons” Reception

[Venue: American Foreign Policy Council/Center for US Ukrainian Relations DC Bureau]