The Azerbaijan-Georgia-Turkey Triangle in the European Geopolitical Context

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Program

14 November 2014

09:30-09:45 Welcome Remarks

• Dr. Canan Atilgan, Director, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in the South Caucasus, Tbilisi
• Guillermo Martínez Casañ, Director, European Ideas Network, Brussels

09:45-10:30 Keynote Speech: The Geopolitical Landscape: What has changed for the Wider Europe?

• Prof. Dr. Mustafa Aydın, Rector, Kadir Has University, Istanbul

10:30-10:45 Coffee Break

10:45-12:15 Panel I: Between Bosporus and Caspian Sea: Modes and Moods of EU Approximation

• Irakli Chikovani, MP, Head of Free Democrats Faction, Parliament of Georgia
• Diba Nigar Göksel, Editor-in-Chief at Turkish Policy Quarterly, Istanbul
• Zaur Shiriyev, Senior Research Fellow, ADA University, Baku
• Dr. Francesca Traldi, Secretary General, Fondazione Magna Charta, Rome

Moderator Dr. Davit Darchiashvili, Deputy Chairman of Defense and Security Committee, Parliament of Georgia

12:15-13:30 Lunch

13:30-15:15 Panel II: Eurasian Connectivity and European Energy Security: Geostrategic Relevance of Regional Cooperation

• Prof. Dr. Güner Özkan, Senior Expert, International Strategic Research Organization, Ankara
• Dr. Fuad Muradov, MP, Deputy Chairperson of the European Union - Azerbaijan Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, Parliament of Azerbaijan
• Dr. Behrooz Abdolvand, Associate Fellow, German Council on Foreign Relations, Berlin
• Javier Rupérez, Member of Board, FAES, Madrid
• Dr. Nino Evgenidze, Executive Director, Economic Policy Research Center, Tbilisi

Moderator Prof. Bakhtiyar Aslanbayli, Lecturer, Chair of Diplomacy and Contemporary Integration Processes, Baku State University

15:15-15:30 Coffee Break

15:30-19:00 Cultural Program: Bellagio – a mirror image of European history

20:00 Dinner at Villa La Collina

Dinner Speech by

• Dr. Paulo Rangel, MEP, Vice President of the EPP Group, Chairman of European Ideas Network, Brussels

15 November 2014

09:30-10:45 Panel III: Trilateral Cooperation and European Security

• Dr. Paulo Rangel, MEP, Vice President of the EPP Group, Chairman of European Ideas Network, Brussels
• Prof. Dr. Mitat Çelikpala, Dean, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Kadir Has University, Istanbul

• Vasil Sikharulidze, Chairman of Atlantic Council of Georgia, Tbilisi
• Dr. Asim Mollazade, MP, Member of Foreign Affairs Committee , Parliament of Azerbaijan

Moderator David Nardaia, Director, International Relations and Euro-Atlantic Integration Department, Ministry of Defense of Georgia

10:45-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:00 Panel IV: Upgrading the Partnership

• Dr. Vusal Gasimli, Head of the Department of the Economic Analysis and Global Affairs, SAM, Baku
• Eka Tkeshelashvili, Director, Georgian Institute for Strategic Studies, Tbilisi
• Miriam Lexmann, Head of EU Office, International Republican Institute, Brussels

Moderator Dr. Canan Atilgan, Director, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in the South Caucasus, Tbilisi

12:00 Lunch

12:30 End of Conference