Wednesday 25 May
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| 09.00 |
- Plenary Meeting of the EAPC Security Forum, chaired by the NATO Secretary General
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Chair and keynote speaker : Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, NATO Secretary General |
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Speaker: Laila Freivalds, Foreign Minister of Sweden |
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Speaker: Kemal Derviş, Director-designate, UNDP |
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Questions and answers |
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| 10:10 |
Secretary General’s Press Conference |
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| 11:00 |
- Participants separate into four concurrent panel discussion groups
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Panel 1 “Addressing Europe's unresolved conflicts”
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| Chair: Jan Petersen, Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs |
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 Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Poland |
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Borys Tarasyuk, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ukraine
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Sergei Karaganov, Chairman of the Council for Foreign Defence Policy , Russian Federation
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| Mrs. Eugenia Kistruga, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of the Republic of Moldova |
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Antanas Valionis, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lithuania |
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Vladimir Socor, The Jamestown Foundation |
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Giorgi Baramidze, State Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, Georgia |
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Dan Fried, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European & Eurasian Affairs |
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| Rapporteur: |
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Jaroslaw Skonieczka, Director, Euro-Atlantic Integration & Partnership Directorate, Political Affairs and Security Policy Division, NATO |
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Panel 2 “NATO and its other Partnerships”
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| Chair: Ambassador Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo, Deputy Secretary General, NATO |
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Magda Vášáryová, State Secretary, Slovakia |
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Halim Benattallah, Ambassador of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria to Belgium |
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Stephen Larrabee, Rand Corporation, United States |
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Thomas Valasek, Director, Centre for Defence Information, Brussels |
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Sean C. Carroll, Director of Programmes, Club of Madrid, Spain |
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| Rapporteur: |
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Daniel Speckhard, Head of the Policy Planning Unit, NATO |
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Panel 3 “Central Asia - Future Cooperation in the EAPC“
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| Chair: Abdullah Gϋl, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Turkey |
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Alexei Volkov, Deputy Foreign Minister, Kazakhstan
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| Michael Emerson, Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, and former EU Ambassador to Russia |
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| Nigina Sattorova, Vice-Chairman, Information, Education and Cultural Center Vector Intellect, Tajikistan |
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| Roza Unaibaeva, Vice-Rector, Eurasian National University Diplomatic Academy, Kazakhstan |
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| Robert F. Simmons Jr., NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia |
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| Mr. Radislaw Sikorski, Executive Director of the New Atlantic Initiative at the American Enterprise Institution |
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| Rapporteur: |
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| Jonathan Parish, Senior Planning Officer, NATO |
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Panel 4 “Acting in concert in the Balkans and elsewhere – How can institutional cooperation make the world more secure”?
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| Chair: Dimitrij Rupel, Foreign Minister of Slovenia and Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE |
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| Pierre Lelouche, Member of the French National Assembly and President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly |
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| R. Nicolas Burns, Under Secretary for Political Affairs, Department of State, United States |
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| Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, Foreign Minister of Croatia |
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| Kastriot Islami, Foreign Minister of Albania |
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| James Elles, MEP and Chairman of the Transatlantic Policy Network |
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| Nicholas Whyte, Director, European Programme, International Crisis Group |
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| Rapporteur: |
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| Jamie Shea, Deputy Assistant Secretary General for External Relations, Public Diplomacy Division |
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| 13.15 |
- Working Luncheon chaired by the Deputy Secretary General, with the participation of all delegates
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Chairman’s closing remarks including
summaries by the rapporteurs of the panels |
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Joint press conference by R. Nicolas Burns, Undersecretary for Political Affairs, U.S. Department of State and Dan Fried, Assistant Secretary for European Affairs, U.S. Department of State |
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