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Institute of World Policy and International Centre for Policy Studies have held a conference “A New Foreign Policy for Ukraine: Final Results for 2010”Ukraine’s prominent experts and diplomats have discussed the effectiveness of the project which IWP and ICPS had presented at the beginning of the year. Within the framework of the research leading Ukrainian experts on international relations have prepared the recommendations for the incoming President on Ukraine’s policy in the following spheres: security, regional partnerships, energy and environmental security, relations with Russia, the USA and the EU. IWP and ICPS directors Alyona Getmanchuk and Vira Nanivska expressed their views at the event. Other experts reported on the realization of their recommendations by the Ukrainian government: Serhiy Solodkyy assessed the President’s steps with regard to Russia, Tetiana Sylina – with the EU, Volodymyr Kravchenko – with Georgia and Romania, Viktor Zamiatin – with Poland, Ildar Gazizzulin – on energy policy. People’s Deputy of Ukraine, ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs Borys Tarasiuk attended the event, too. He highly praised the realized project and expressed regret for its partial implementation by the Ukrainian authorities. IWP director Alyona Getmanchuk stressed the necessity to continue the monitoring of governmental foreign policy actions and present their assessment at public events and in the media. “Expert activity makes the authorities more accountable, more attentive to the recommendations coming from civil society representatives,” she concluded.
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