Program – Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic Future: International Forum II

Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic Future:
International Forum II

June 2-4 2008
Kyiv, Ukraine

Day 1
Venue: Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine

4:00 PM – 4:30 PM Conference Registration for Members of the Press

4:30 PM – 5:00 PM Conference Registration for Non Ukrainian Participants

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Conference Registration for Ukrainian Participants

6:00 PM – 9:00 PM Opening Ceremonies

[Hosted by the Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine]

Master of Ceremonies:

• Dean of the UA Diplomatic Academy Borys Humenyuk

Featured Speakers:

• Dep. Prime Min. for Euro-Integration Hryhoriy Nemyria
• Foreign Minister Volodymyr Ohryzko
• European Parliament Member Elmar Brok
• Canadian MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj

Day 2
Venue: Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine

9:00 AM – 9:30 AM Conference Focus Session I

Theme: Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic Future – The First Word

• A Word from the Forum Chair: Borys Tarasyuk
• From the Forum Steering Committee: Volodymyr Zaryckyj & Nico Lange

9:30 AM – 10:45 AM Conference Plenary Session I

Theme: Assessing the Pace of Ukraine’s Accession to NATO Membership

Moderator:

• Serhiy Dzherdzh [NATO-Ukraine Civic League]

Panelists:

• Slovak Ambassador to Ukraine Urban Rusnak
• Anatoliy Hrytsenko [UA Verkhovna Rada]
• James Greene [NATO Liaison Office]
• Volker Rühe [Former Minister of Defense of Germany]

10:45 AM – 11:00 AM Coffee Break [Press Interviews]

11:00 AM – 12:15 PM Conference Plenary Session II

Theme: Is NATO Membership Still a Valuable Objective for Ukraine?

Moderator:

• Hryhoriy Perepylytysa [Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine]

Panelists:

• Borys Tarasyuk [Chair/Euro-Integration Committee/UA VR]
• Volodymyr Horbulin [UA National Security Studies Institute]
• William Miller [Woodrow Wilson International Center]
• Oleh Medvedev [Ukrainian Public Relations League]

12:15 PM – 12:45 PM Conference Focus Session II

Theme: Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic Future – Pondering the State of Canadian-Ukrainian Relations

Chair:

• Bohdan Onyschuk [Canada-Ukraine Chamber of Commerce]

Featured Speaker:

• Charge d’Affaires of the Canadian Embassy to Ukraine Peter Bates

12:45 PM – 2:15 PM Lunch [Press Interviews]

2:15 PM – 2:45 PM Conference Focus Session III

Theme: Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic Future – Pondering the State of US-Ukrainian Relations

Chair:

• Christina Pendzola-Vitovych [American Council on International Education]

Featured Speaker:

• United States Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor

2:45 PM – 4:00 PM Conference Plenary Session III

Theme: Assessing the Pace of Ukraine’s Accession to EU Membership

Moderator:

• Oleksandr Biletsky [Ukraine European Movement]

Panelists:

• Dirk Schuebel [Deputy Head/EC Ukraine]
• Serhiy Shevchuk [UA Verkhovna Rada]
• Valeriy Chaliy [Razumkov Center]
• Marek Matraszek [CEC/Government Relations]

4:00 PM – 4:15 PM Coffee Break [Press Interviews]

4:15 PM – 5:30 PM Conference Plenary Session IV

Theme: Is EU Membership Still a Valuable Objective for Ukraine?

Moderator:

• Jan Pieklo [Polish Ukrainian Cooperation Foundation]

Panelists:

• Karl-Georg Wellmann [Foreign Relations Committee/Bundestag]
• Oleh Rybachuk [Suspil’nist]
• Kostyantyn Hryshchenko [First Dep. Secretary/UA NSDC]
• Ursala Gacek [European Parliament]

5:30 PM – 6:00 PM Conference Focus Session IV

Theme: Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic Future – A Word about Gaining WTO Membership

Chair:

• Ihor Burakowsky [UA Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting]

Featured Speaker:

• UA Deputy Minister of the Economy Valeriy Pyatnytskiy

7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Forum Reception at the US Embassy [Host: Amb. William Taylor]

Day 3
Venue: Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine

9:00 AM – 9:30 AM Conference Focus Session V

Theme: Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic Future – Turning the Weimar Triangle into the
“Core Four of Europe”/A Contemplation

Chair:

• Zdzislaw Najder [Weimar Triangle Association]

Featured Speaker:

• Ambassador of Poland to Ukraine Jacek Kluczkowski

9:30 AM – 10:45 AM Conference Plenary Session V

Theme: Can GUAM Play the Same Role that the Visegrad Forum Played for Members in the 1990s?

Moderator:

• Iryna Bekeshkina [Democratic Initiatives Foundation]

Panelists:

• Ambassador of the Czech Rep. to Ukraine Jaroslav Bashta
• Secretary General of GUAM Valeri Chechelashvili
• Volodymyr Dubovyk [Odessa National University]
• Oleksandr Derhachov [Inst. of Political & Ethno-national Studies]

10:45 AM – 11:00 AM Coffee Break [Press Interviews]

11:00 AM – 12:15 PM Conference Plenary Session VI

Theme: Can Ukraine & the Baltic Council Help Belarus Envision a Euro-Atlantic Future?

Moderator:

• Slavko Pavlyuk [Polish Ukrainian Cooperation Foundation]

Panelists:

• Ambassador of Lithuania to Ukraine Algirdas Kumzha
• Krzysztof Bobinski [EU Foundatzia/PL]
• Serhiy Vysotsky [Head/Belarusian “Freedom” Party]
• Yevhen Kaminsky [IWE/UA Nat. Academy of Sciences]

12:15 PM – 12:45 PM Conference Focus Session VI

Theme: Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic Future – A Word about UA’s Search for Energy Independence

Chair:

• Oleksander Todiychuk [Coordinator/EU-Ukraine MoU on Energy Issues]

Featured Speaker:

• Bohdan Sokolovsky [Presidential Plenipotentiary on International Energy Security Issues]

12:45 PM – 2:15 PM Lunch [Press Interviews]

2:15 PM – 2:45 PM Conference Focus Session VII

Theme: Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic Future – Contemplating a Global Community of Democracies

Chair:

• Peter Borisow [Center for US-Ukrainian Relations]

Featured Speaker:

• Brian Mefford [UA Country Director/ Int’l Republican Institute]

2:45 PM – 4:00 PM Conference Plenary Session VII

Theme: Assessing the State of UA’s Relations with the Democracies of E. Asia & the Near East

Moderator:

• Pavlo Zhovnirenko [Center for Strategic Studies/UA]

Panelists:

• Ambassador of Japan to Ukraine Mutsuo Mabuchi
• Kim Do-Hyon [First Secretary of the Embassy of Korea]
• Vyacheslav Shved [UA National Institute for Strategic Studies]
• Oleksiy Volovich [UA NISS/Odessa Regional Affiliate]

4:00 PM – 4:15 PM Coffee Break [Press Interviews]

4:15 PM – 5:30 PM Conference Plenary Session VIII

Theme: The Bucharest Summit in Retrospect/Case Study: NATO MAP for Ukraine & Georgia

Moderator:

• Nico Lange [Konrad Adenauer Stiftung]

Panelists:

• Taras Kuzio [George Washington University]
• Hryhoriy Perepylytsya [Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine]
• Olexandr Sushko [Institute for Euro-Atlantic Integration]
• Ilko Kucheriv [Democratic Initiative Foundation]

5:30 PM – 6:00 PM Conference Focus Session VIII

Theme: Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic Future – The Final Word

• From the UA Ministry of Defense: Deputy Defense Minister Valeriy Ivaschenko
• From the Forum Steering Committee [Mykhailo Ratushny & William Miller]

7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Closing Ceremonies [Hosted by the Sponsors of the Conference]