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Innovative Winter Academy in Ukraine
The first ever Winter Academy on security issues to take place
in Ukraine was held 1-5 March 2004.
Over 50 students from across Ukraine and from neighbouring countries,
as well as young staff officers from ministries, gathered in the
city of Lviv in the west of the country around the subject of "Euro-Atlantic
integration: an instrument for stability".
High-level speakers addressed the audience and used a daily video
link with Brussels throughout the week to communicate directly with
NATO HQ officials. A video link was also established with the US
Embassy in Kiev so that students could attend interactive sessions
on a wide range of security-related issues. These included the genesis
of conflicts, the development of policies and the role of the State,
NATO's evolution after the Prague Summit, cooperation between different
international organisations and deterrence. They also discussed defence
reform in Ukraine and the definition of the democratic values shared
by NATO members.
The Winter Academy, which was attended by the Ukrainian Minister
of Foreign Affairs, Hryshchenko, as well as the Secretary General
of the OSCE, Ján Kubiš, was organised by the Ministry
of Education and Science, the National Academy of Sciences in Ukraine,
with the support of the NATO Information and Documentation Centre
in Kiev.
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