Specialist conference
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Nach der letzten EU-Erweiterung am 1. Mai 2004 wurden in die europäische Familie die unmittelbaren Nachbarn der Ukraine – Polen, Slowakei und Ungarn –
und vier weitere Länder des ehemaligen sozialistischen Lagers – Tschechien und die baltische Staaten – aufgenommen, zu denen die Ukraine seit längerer Zeit gute Beziehungen unterhält. Gemeinsamkeiten in der Geschichte und der Mentalität und gute wirtschaftliche und menschliche Beziehungen mit diesen Ländern lassen die Ukrainer hoffen, gerade mit diesen neuen EU-Mitgliedsstaaten bedeutende Fürsprecher in Brüssel gefunden zu haben, wenn es um eine stärkere Integration der Ukraine in europäische Strukturen geht.
Vor diesem Hintergrund organisiert die Außenstelle Kiew in Zusammenarbeit mit dem ukrainischen Institut für europäische Integration (Leiter Borys Tarasjuk MP, Vorsitzender des Parlamentsausschusses für europäische Integration) und dem angesehenen polnischen Zentrum für internationale Beziehungen eine Konferenz „Europäische Perspektiven der Ukraine: Erfahrungen der Länder der ‚Visegrád 4’ und des Baltikums“, die in Kiew unter Mitwirkung von Vertretern aus der Exekutive und Legislative der Ukraine und den neuen Mitgliedsstaaten stattfindet.
PROGRAMM
(Conference working languages – Ukrainian, English)
Hotel RUS, Kyiv
4 Hospitalna St.
Kyiv, 01023
Tel : + 38 044 294 30 20
Fax: + 38 044 220 43 96
Wednesday, January 26
Arrival of foreign participants and check-in at the hotel
Venue:
16.30
Registration. Welcoming to a coffee
17.00 – 18.00
Survey Presentation „ Year of Poland in Ukraine in a context of the European integration”
Venue: Hotel RUS VENETIAN HALL
19.30
WELCOME DINNER
Welcome Statements:
- Ambassador Borys TARASYUK, Chairman of Parliamentary Committee on European Integration, Director of the Institute for Euro – Atlantic Cooperation
- Janusz REITER, President of the Center for International Relations (tbc)
- John SOMERS, Director of Poland-America-Ukraine Cooperation Initiative
- Ralf WACHSMUTH, Head of Konrad Adenauer Foundation Representative Office in Ukraine
Thursday, January 27
Venue: Hotel RUS CONFERENCE-HALL
9.00 – 9.30
Registration
9.30 – 10.30
UKRAINE’S PLACE IN “WIDER EUROPE”. REALITIES AND PROSPECTS
Moderator: Ambassador Borys TARASYUK, Chairman of Parliamentary Committee on European Integration, Director of the Institute for Euro – Atlantic Cooperation
- Oleksandr MOTSYK, First Deputy Foreign Minister for European integration, Ukraine (tbc)
- Ian BOAG, Head of the European Commission’s Delegation to Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus (tbc)
- Oleg ZARUBINSKIY, Deputy Chairman of Parliamentary Committee on European Integration, Ukraine
- Dr Janusz ONYSZKIEWICZ, Vice-President of the European Parliament, Advisor to the Center for International Relations, Poland (tbc)
SYSTEM REFORMS AS PRECONDITION OF EUROINTEGRATION PROCESSES
Moderator: Janusz REITER, President of the Center for International Relations (tbc)
- Oleksandr VONDRA, Board member of the Program of Atlantic Security Studies, Former Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Czech Republic (tbc)
- Oleksandr ZINCHENKO, Vice-Chairperson of the Parliament, Ukraine (tbc)
- Pavol DEMES, GMF, the Transatlantic Center for Central and Eastern Europe, Former Minister for Foreign Affairs, Slovakia (tbc)
- Alvidas MEDALINSKAS, Deputy Chairman of Parliamentary Committee on European affairs, Lithuania (tbc)
- Prof Volodymyr LANOVIY, President of the Center for Market Reforms, Ukraine (tbc)·Zoltan NEMET, MP, Hungary (tbc)
14.30 – 15.30
UKRAINE AFTER THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: NEW CHANCES FOR STEPPING TOWARDS EUROPE
Moderator: Serhiy YEVTUSHENKO, Executive Director of the Institute for Euro - Atlantic Cooperation
- Vyacheslav KYRYLENKO, MP, Ukraine
- Participant from Poland
- Oleksandr SUSHKO, Director of the Center for Peace, Conversion and Foreign Policy of Ukraine
PUBLIC OPINION AS INDICATOR OF EUROINTEGRATION OPPORTUNITIES
Moderator: Oleksandr VONDRA
- Participant from Poland
- Anatoliy HRYTSENKO, President of the Ukrainian Center for Economic and Political Studies named after Razumkov (tbc)
- Alvidas MEDALINSKAS, Deputy Chairman of Parliamentary Committee on European Affairs, Lithuania (tbc)
- Ilko KUCHERIV, Director of the Democratic Initiatives Foundation (tbc)
17.00 – 17.30
PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION OF CONFERENCE RESOLUTION DOCS
17.30 – 18.00
Conclusions:
EUROPEAN PROSPECTS OF UKRAINE: NEXT STEPS
Open discussion
- Ambassador Borys TARASYUK, Chairman of Parliamentary Committee on European Integration, Director of the Institute for Euro – Atlantic Cooperation
- Janusz REITER, President of the Center for International Relations (tbc)
- John SOMERS, Director of Poland-America-Ukraine Cooperation Initiative
- Ralf WACHSMUTH, Head of Konrad Adenauer Foundation Representative Office in Ukraine
Friday, January 28
Departure of foreign participants