Georgia and Armenia - How does the transformation towards democracy look today?


Georgia and Armenia –
How does the transformation towards democracy look today?


Place: The New Annex Building, Arkadiankatu 3, Helsinki
Date: 15 May 2009
Time: 8.45–13.00


8.45–9.00: Opening of the seminar:

Krista Kiuru (STETE´s chair and MP)
Ilkka Kantola (Human Rights Group of Parliament of Finland)
Markku Kivinen (Director, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki)

9.00–10.30: I Session/panel: Georgia

Chair: Axel Hagelstam (Ministry of Defense and STETE´s vice chair)

Speakers:
Ombudsman of Georgia Mr. Sozar Subari
Major Heikki Lehtonen (National Defense College, Department of Strategic and Defense studies)

Comments:
Mikko Palonkorpi (Researcher, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki)

Discussion


10.30–11.00 Coffee

11.00–12.30 II Session/panel: Armenia

Chair: Hanna Smith (Researcher, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki)

Speakers:
Ombudsman of Armenia Mr. Armen Harutyunyan
Roving Ambassador for South Caucasus Petri Salo

Comments:
Marianne Tillman (Executive Director, Development Services Tillman Oy)

Discussion


12.30–13.00 Summary

Janne Taalas (Director of Policy Planning and Research, Ministry for Foreign Affairs)
Iris Kempe (Director, Heinrich Böll Tbilisi office)
Heidi Hautala (Member of the Human rights group of the Parliament, MP)

Tilaisuuden lehdistötiedote löytyy täältä (suomeksi).




                                        STETE's chair, MP Krista Kiuru




Ilkka Kantola, chair of the Human Rights Group of Parliament of Finland, MP

Markku Kivinen, Director of Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki

Sozar Subari, ombudsman and Public Defender of Georgia

Major Heikki Lehtonen, National Defence College

Armen Harutyunyan, ombudsman and Human Rights Defender of Armenia

Ambassador Petri Salo