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US-Ukraine Energy Dialogue I

US-Ukraine Energy Dialogue I was held in Washington, DC on November 2, 2005 in the Dirksen Senate Office Building's Hearing Room GR50.
The gathering's specific aim was to acquaint the various key parties in the private & public energy sectors of both the United States and Ukraine with one another and to have the stated parties enumerate the most critical issues of common concern. The Dialogue also served as PM Yuri Yekhanurov's platform for spelling out: Ukraine's Energy Strategy 2005-2030.

Speakers included:

Robert Bensh Julia Nanay
Ilan Berman Warner North
Andrew Bihun Victor Pergat
Valeriy Borovik Ivan Plachkov
Ken Bossong Semen Potashnyk
Lesya Bulka John Ruehlman
Camille Caliendo Ilya Rybchych
Vitaliy Cherednyk Bob Schaffer
Ariel Cohen Mykola Shteinberg
Michael Cohen Ronald Slimp
Jonathan Elkind Keith Smith
Ihor Franchuk Tom Spellman
Natalya Grebenyuk Wojciech Tabis
John Imle Serhiy Titenko
Oleksiy Ivchenko Oleksandr Todyichuk
Jim Jennings Kosei Umemori
Volodymyr Kasyanov Kostiantyn Ushchapovski
Michael Kirst Chuck Walton
Kay Larcom Curt Weldon
George Laszkiewicz J. Benedict Wolf
Garry Levesley Yuri Yekhanurov
Michael Feinstein Walter Zaryckyj

Sponsors:

American Foreign Policy
Council
Congressional Ukrainian
Caucus
Center for US-Ukrainian
Relations
Ukrainian Congress
Committee of America

Patrons:

Hunt Oil Ukrhydroenergo
Vanco Nova Energia
Cardinal Resources Ukrtransnafta

Proceedings/Presentations:

Prime Minister of Ukraine Yuri
Yekhanurov's keynote
address
CSIS Senior Associate Keith
Smith's presentation Ukraine
Between a Rock and a Hard Place:
The Politics of Energy
Security

Program:

The event's program