EXPERIENCE SHARING BETWEEN BALTIC & BLACK SEA REGIONS

Ukraine’s European Vision in Focus

Day 1, 10^th September

17.00             Conference registration starts

(venue:  Government Residence building, Grushevskoho str. 22)

18.00             High-level opening session

Ukraine’s role in Baltic and Black Sea regions

Welcome address and chairing of the opening

Krista Kiuru

Finnish MP and STETE’s chair            

Ilkka Kanerva

Finnish MP, Chair of the Finnish Delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly

Besik Tserediani

Deputy Minister on Refugees of Georgia  

Witold Sobków

Ambassador, Acting Political Director, MFA of Poland

Ihor Dolgov

Director of International Affairs Department of Presidential Secretariat of Ukraine

                        Rolf Ekeus

                        Ambassador, Chair of  Swedish OSCE Network  

  General Dr. Klaus Olshausen

  Former military representative of Germany to NATO

Questions and discussion

 20.00            Reception (venue: Government Residence building, Grushevskoho str. 22)

Hosted by Konrad Adenauer Stiftung 

Day 2, 11^th of September

Venue:    Hotel Rus

 How to strengthen the regional cooperation and security

 9.00               Prospects of Ukraine’s EU membership and current EU Neighbourhood Policy relations

Chair:              Nico Lange

                        Konrad-Adenauer Stiftung

Speakers:         Ilkka Kanerva

Finnish MP, Chair of the Finnish Delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly

Witold Sobków

Ambassador, Acting Political Director, MFA of Poland

                        Oleksandr Potiekhin

                        Center for Peace, Conversion and Foreign Policy of Ukraine

                      Questions and discussion

10.00            Models for regional cooperation in Baltic Sea region

Chair:              Heikki Järvenpää

                        The Finnish Committee for European Security (STETE)

Speakers:         Northern Dimension:

                        Hanna Lehtinen

                        Head of the Unit for the Northern Dimension, MFA of Finland

Eastern Dimension:

Johan Frisell

Director and Head of Eastern Europe Division, MFA of Sweden

Baltic Sea Region cooperation – where to go after almost 20 years of cooperation:

                        Barbro Widing

Council of Baltic Sea States, WGEC

                        Border cooperation with Russia – experiences from Finland:

                        Antti Hartikainen

The Finnish Border Guard

Questions and discussion

Coffee break (15 min.)

                     

11.15             Regional Cooperation and Security in the Black Sea region

Chair:              Nico Lange

                        Konrad Adenauer Stiftung

                       EU Black Sea synergy:

                                Traian Laurentiu Hristea 

                                Ambassador of Romania to Ukraine           

                        Impacts of Georgian situation to Ukraine and neighbourhood            

                        Oleg Rybachuk 

                        Former Head of Presidential Secretariat, Ukraine

                        Overview of the situation in Georgia

                        Ghia Khasia

                        Director of Independent Radio “Atiati”, Georgia

                        Overview of Transdniestria situation

                        Serhiy Bursa

                        Euro-Atlantic Association, Moldova

                        Questions and discussion

13.00               Lunch

                     Environmental security and protection – common objectives for North and South

Chair:              Krista Kiuru

                        Finnish MP and STETE’s chair

Speakers:         Concrete project: Environmental Partnership (NDEP)

                        Martti Poutanen

                        Ministry of the Environment of Finland

Ukraine’s environmental situation from NGO perspective

Serhiy Kurykin

Head of the Public Council within the Nuclear Regulation Committee of Ukraine

Anna Golubovska-Onisimova

President of Mama-86

                                            Moldovan-Ukrainian cooperation on the Dniester river basin

                                            Tamara Kutonova

The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine

                        Questions and discussion

15.15               Coffee break

15.30               Parallel working groups           

I Prospective NATO membership

(working language is English without translation)

Chair:               Svyatoslav Pavlyuk

                        Polish-Ukrainian Cooperation Foundation (PAUCI)

Regional consequences of Ukraine’s NATO membership

Speakers:         Jakub Godzimirski

The Norwegian Institute of International Affairs

Michael Gorny

St. Petersburg Center for Humanities and Political Studies, “Strategy”

                        Klaus Olshausen

                        General Dr., Germany

                        Questions and discussion

 II Energy security in the context of Baltic & Black Sea cooperation

(working languages are English and Ukrainian)

Chair:              Krzysztof Bobinski

                                Unia & Polska; Pauci

Speakers:         Caucasian pipelines and trans-border high politics

                        Mikko Palonkorpi

                                Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki

                        Black Sea energy cooperation

  Bohdan Sokolovski

  Ukrainian presidential commissioner for international energy security issues

  Energy efficiency - Role of renewable energy

                        Anatoliy Kopec

                        Association of Energy Efficient cities of Ukraine

                        Questions and discussion

III Europe and Black Sea Region: developments in the Human Dimension

(working language is English without translation)

Chairs:             Introduction

                        Rolf Ekéus

  Swedish diplomat, former High Commissioner on National Minorities (OSCE)

Speakers:         Rule of law and strategies against corruption

Åke Peterson

Head of Office of Council of Europe

                        Visa issue – crusial challenge in EU-Ukraine relations

                        Grzegorz Gromadzki

                        Batory Foundation, Warsaw

                        Jeffrey Labovitz            

                        Chief of Mission, IOM Ukraine

                        Humanitarian situation in Georgia

                        Julia Kharashvili

                        Ministry of Emergencies of Georgia

                        Questions and discussion

17.00               Frozen conflicts in Ukraine’s neighbourhood

Chairs:             Jan Pieklo

                        PAUCI

Speakers:         Different models for conflict resolution (focus on Transdnestria, South Ossetia)

Janne Taalas

Councellor, Deputy Head of the Finnish OSCE Chairmanship Task Force

Andrew Filmer

Deputy Head of Operations of the Mission, EUBAM

                        Rolf Ekéus

OSSE-nätverket

Crimea as the emerging hot spot: The Sevastopol / Black Sea fleet question

                                Rainer Lindner

                        German Institute for International and Security Affairs

                        Questions and discussion

18.15               Conclusions & Recommendations

                        Rapporteurs of the working groups

                        Closing of the 2008 Nordic Forum

                        Gunnar Lassinantti

                        The Olof Palme International Center, OSSE-nätverket

19.00            Reception

Welcoming words by Christer Michelsson, Ambassador of Finland to Ukraine

Address by Finnish Member of Parliament  Sari Palm

Hosted by the Ambassador of Finland Christer Michelsson at His Residence (Vul. Luteranska 7/10)

Day 3, 12^th of September

9.00                 Cultural Programme:

Chernobyl museum and city tour

Kuvat: © STETE