- and launching of the web site www.northerndimension.net
  

11 June 2003, at 9 - 13
Parliament house, Auditorium

9 - 9.30 Welcoming coffee
 
 

Chair
Secretary General Laura Päiviö, STETE
 

            Opening words – European stability unstable?
            * Counsellor Mr. Frank de Hoop Scheffer, Representing Netherlands Chairmanship in the OSCE

            Belarus and statistics in international comparison
            * MP Urban Ahlin, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Chairman of the Foreign Committee of
            the Swedish Parliament

            Integration or isolation? Analysis of the Belarusian international politics
            * Senior Researcher Dr. Heinz Timmermann, German Federal Institute for Russian, East European and
               International Studies
            * Comments by Senior Researcher Dr. Arkady Moshes, Finnish Institute of International Affairs (UPI)

            A Polish view for future development
            * Former Ambassador to Minsk Mariusz Maszkiewicz, MFA of Poland

            Personal political story: from Belarus to Finland
            * Student Alina Belskaya, University of Helsinki
 

Chair
Special Adviser to the Prime Minister Timo Hellenberg, Prime Minister's Office

            The new neighbour(s) from the Northern Dimension´s view point
            * Director Esa Stenberg, Pan-European Institute

            Launching and presentation of the Northern Dimension Advisory Network -internet portal
            by Aleksanteri Institute, Baltic Institute, Pan European Institute, North Carelian Polytechnic and
            Arctic Center  and various foreign partners
            * Director Esa Kokkonen, Baltic Institute of Finland

 

The seminar is organised by STETE and Aleksanteri Institute