Program: US-Ukraine Security Dialogue II

US-Ukraine Security Dialogue II

Conference Program

Participants

• Ukrainian Side
  • Members of the UA Ministry of Defense
  • Members of UA National Security and Defense Council
  • Staff/UA Embassy to the United States
• US Side
  • Members of the Congressional Ukrainian Caucus
  • Members/US Department of Defense
  • Staff/Congressional Armed Services Committee

Program

8:20 – 9:00 am – Registration (Continental Breakfast Served)

9:00 – 9:30 am – Dialogue Opening Remarks

Speakers

• Representative Curt Weldon (Dialogue Host & Chair/HR Homeland Security Committee)
• Ambassador Oleh Shamshur (Ukraine’s Envoy to the United States)

9:30 am – Noon – Dialogue Morning Session – Evaluating Past US-UA Security Cooperation

Chair

• Ilan Berman (Vice President, American Foreign Policy Council)

I Theme: Cooperative Threat Reduction

Speaker

• James Reid (Director, Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction Policy, U.S. DOD)

II Theme: SFOR and KFOR

Speaker

• Col. Volodymyr Shkurat (Information Sec. Head, Main Command Center, UA MOD)

III Theme: War on Terror & Iraq

Speakers

• Maj. Gen. Serhiy Bezlushchenko (Chief of Current Ops Center, MCC, UA MOD)
• Frederic Hof (Chief Exec Officer, AALC Ltd)

IV Theme: US-Ukraine Military to Military Cooperation

Speakers

• Jennifer Moroney (Senior Political Scientist, RAND Corp)
• CDR David Fisher (Ukraine Desk Officer, Joint Staff/J-5, U.S. Department of Defense)

Noon – 1:20 pm – Working Lunch -Assessing Present US-UA Security Cooperation

V Theme: US Assistance with Ukraine’s NATO Accession Process

Speaker

• David Kramer (Deputy Asst Sec. of State of Europe and Eurasia)

1:20 – 4:20 pm – Dialogue Afternoon Session – Pondering Future US-UA Security Cooperation

Chair

• Walter Zaryckyj (Exec. Dir., Center for US-Ukrainian Relations)

VI Theme: US-Ukraine Security Cooperation/US Perspective

Speaker

• Scott Schless (Principal Director for Eurasia, U.S. Dept of Defense)

VII Theme: US-Ukraine Security Cooperation/UA Perspective

Speakers

• Major General Serhiy Bezlushchenko (Chief of Current Ops Center, MCC, UA MOD)
• Mykhajlo Ratushny (Fmr. Rada Dep. Chair/Committee on Euro-Integration)

VIII Theme: Common Response Planning in Matters of Economic/Energy Security

Speakers

• Celeste Wallander (Director, REA Program, CSIS)
• Serhiy Korsunsky (Acting Director, Economics Dept, UA MFA)

IX Theme: Joint Weapons Development (Case Studies: Strategic Airlift & Missile Defense)

Speakers

• Dmytro Kiva (General Designer, Antonov ASTC)
• Peter Franklin (Missile Defense Business Area, Raytheon)

4:20 – 5:00 pm – Dialogue Closing Remarks

Suggested Theme

• Pondering the Security Dimension of a US-Ukraine Strategic Partnership/Ukrainian Perspective

Speakers

• Volodymyr Horbulin (Acting Secretary, National Security & Defense Council of Ukraine)
• Steven Pifer (Senior Advisor, Center for Strategic and Intl. Studies)

6:30 – 8:30 pm – Post Dialogue Patrons Reception (UA Embassy to the United States)

Sponsors

• American Foreign Policy Council
• Center for US-Ukrainian Relations
• Congressional Ukrainian Caucus
• Embassy of Ukraine to the United States

Host

• Congressman Curt Weldon (R-PA)

Principal Dialogue Patron

• Delta Airlines