Program-Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic Future: International Forum IV

Venue: V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University

Day 1 – 23 June 2009

08:30 – Registration

09:00 – Forum Opening

Welcome from the Kharkiv Oblast Administration

• Arsen Avakov (Head, Kharkiv Region State Administration)
• Vil Bakirov (President, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University)

The First Word from the Steering Committee

• Nico Lange (Director, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Ukraine)

09:30 AM – The Euro-Atlantic Future of Ukraine-Ukrainian Perspective

Keynote:

• Vadym Prystaiko (Deputy Director of the Directorate General for NATO, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine)

10:00 AM – EU-Ukraine Relations: Are the Ties Changing/Improving Ukrainian Society?

Chair:

• Nico Lange (Director, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Ukraine)

Panelists:

• Dirk Schubel (Head of the Political, Press and Information Section, Delegation of European Commission to Ukraine and Belarus)
• Borys Tarasyuk (MP, Head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on European Integration, Director of the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation)

11:20 – Coffee Break

11:40 – NATO-Ukraine Relations: Are the Ties Helping Guarantee Ukrainian Security?

Chair:

• Ihor Kozak
  (International Relations Director, League of Ukrainian Canadians)

Panelists:

• James Greene
  (Head, NATO Liaison Office to Ukraine)
• Olekandr Haran (Pofessor of Political Science, Kyiv-Mohyla National University)
• Sergiy Grynevezkyj
  (MP, Deputy Head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security
  and Defence)

13:00 – Divining New Impulses by the Obama Administration

Chair:

• Walter Zaryckyj
  (Director, Center for US-Ukrainian Relations)

Panelists:

• James Pettit (Charge d’Affaire, Embassy of the United States in Ukraine)
• Borys Parakhonskyj (Senior Analyst, National Security & Defense Council)
• Olexandr Volodin (Head of Division, National Centre of Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine)

14:30 – Lunch Break

15:30 – AThe Impact of the Euro-Atlantic Ties on the Kharkiv Region

Chair:

• Mykola Pachnin
  (ATVK Journalist, Official Adviser to the Head of the Kharkiv Region State
  Administration)

Panelists:

• Vitaliy Malyarenko
  (Director of the Institute of Regional Politics, University of Karazin)
• Ihor Rossoha (Political Scientist, Kharkiv National Academy of Municipal Economy)
• Volodymyr Nikitin
  (Docent, Kharkiv Regional Institute of State Management of the National
  Academy of State Management under the President of Ukraine)

17:00 – The Euro-Atlantic Future of Ukraine – Canadian Perspective

Remarks:

• Remarks written for the forum by Canadian Ambassador to Ukraine Daniel Caron
• Remarks written for the forum by Canadian Member of Parliament Borys Wrzesnewskyj

17:30 – Forum Closing

Final Words from the Steering Committee

• Lewis Madanick
  (Senior Program Manager, Open World Leadership Center at the Library of
  Congress)
• Taras Paslavsky
  (Director of Development, League of Ukrainian Canadians)

19:00 – Reception

Day 2 – 24 June 2009

Public Debates

10:00 – 1st Round: Ukraine´s Euro-Atlantic Future

Moderator:

• Jan Pieklo
  (Director, Polish Ukrainian Cooperation Foundation/PAUCI)

Panelists:

• Vadym Triukhan
  (Director of the Coordination Bureau for European and Euro-Atlantic
  Integration, Secretary of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine)
• Leonid Kozhara
  (MP, Deputy Head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Foreign Affairs)
• Valeriy Borovik
  (Chairman of the Board, Alliance “New Energy of Ukraine”)
• Michael Einhorn (Senior Research Fellow, Columbia University)

12:00 – Coffee Break

12:20 – 2nd Round: Involvement of Business, Civil Society and Ukrainian Citizens in EU-Ukraine Relations

Moderator:

• Ivanna Kobernyk
  (TV Journalist)

Panelists:

• Pavlo Klimkin
  (Director of the Directorate General for the European Union, Ministry of
  Foreign Affairs of Ukraine)
• Inna Pidluska
  (Executive Director, Yalta European Strategy)
• Ihor Kohut
  (Director, Laboratory for Legislative Initiatives)
• Olexandr Sushko
  (Research Director, Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation, Ukraine)

14:00 – Closing Remarks

• Nico Lange
  (Director, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Ukraine)