On September 12th 2012, Institute of World Policy and NATO Liaison Office in Ukraine with the support of Estonia, Norway, Poland, Switzerland, and Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces held an International Forum “Ukraine’s non-bloc policy in the European context.”It was carried out in the framework of the NATO-Ukraine Partnership Network for Civil Society Expertise Development under the patronage of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and with the support of Institute of World Policy. Top-experts from Austria, Great Britain, Estonia, Germany, Norway, Poland, United States of America, Hungary, Finland, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden and other countries were involved in the discussions.
Kostintyn Gryshchenko, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, addressed participants with the key-note speech.The opinion on non-bloc policy of Ukraine was also expressed by Oleksandr Medvedko, First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, LtGen Hryhoriy Sakovskyi, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Oleksandr Aleksandrovych, Director of the Department of International Security and Disarmament of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Oleksandr Chalyi, former Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Leonid Kozhara, Deputy Head of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Markus Meckel, Senior Adviser, former Mininster for Foreign Affairs of Germany and Volodymyr Ohryzko, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine have also joined discussions.
Among Honorary Guests were Pertti Torstila, State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland, Dr. Hans Widmer, former Member of the Parliament of Switzerland, Dr, Gerhard Jandl, Director for Security Policy of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Austria, Inger Buxton, Deputy Director of the Security Policy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden.
The vision of the future security of Ukraine was also shared by Roger Ingebrigsten, State Secretary of the Ministry of Defence of Norway, Jiří Schneider, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic and prof.Adam Rotfeld, Former Foreign Minister of Poland.
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