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On February 19, Institute of World Policy held a media club with the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic prof. Petr Drulak.Prof. Drulak met Ukrainian experts, students of international affairs, and journalists to discuss the situation in Ukraine, Czech policy regarding Ukraine, and EU relations with Ukraine.
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Professor Petr Drulák is also a prominent Czech political scientist. He previously worked as Professor at the Institute of Political Studies and at the Institute of International Studies at Charles University (2005–2012), as Director of the Institute of International Relations Prague (2004–2013), and as Chairman of the Editorial Council of the journal Mezinárodní vztahy (International Relations; 2004–2007).

The Media Club was organized within the framework of the IWP project “New European Policy: Filling the Awareness Gap” launched with the support of Ukraine National Initiatives to Enhance Reforms (UNITER), a program funded by USAID and implemented by Pact Inc.

Sorry, this entry is only available in Ukrainian.

Sorry, this entry is only available in Ukrainian.

On February 11, the Institute of World Policy held a number of public events on security issues and European integration of Ukraine in Mykolaiv.At the invitation of the IWP, ten journalists from all over Ukraine arrived to Mykolaiv to participate together with their Mykolaiv colleagues in the workshop “How to Write Interesting Articles about the EU?”
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IWP invited Katerina Safarina, journalist of the Czech daily newspaper «Lidové noviny», to act as a moderator of the seminar.
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After the seminar, the journalists took part in the meeting of Strategic Discussion Club “The EU, NATO…What will Ensure Ukraine’s Security?”. Mykolaiv became the fourth Ukrainian regional center where the IWP organized such public discussion on security issues. Last year, meetings of the Strategic Discussion Club were held in Kharkiv, Kyiv and Odessa.
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At the invitation of the IWP, leading Ukrainian experts and diplomats of the EU member states had specially arrived to Mykolaiv to participate in the public debate on the strategic issues of Ukraine’s security. Among the speakers were: Ambassador of France to Ukraine Alain Remy, Deputy Head of Mission of the British Embassy in Ukraine Martin Day, Military Attaché of the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Ukraine Mindaugas Kviklis, Counsellor at Royal Norwegian Embassy in Ukraine Richard Scarborough, Director of military programs at the Razumkov Center Mykola Sungurovskiy, Chair of the Board of the Center for Strategic Studies Pavlo Zhovnirenko.
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Alain Remy, Ambassador of France to Ukraine, and Alyona Getmanchuk, Director of the Institute of World Policy
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Mindaugas Kviklis, Military Attaché of the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Ukraine
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Martin Day, Deputy Head of Mission of the British Embassy in Ukraine
After the meeting of SDC the experts and diplomats of the EU member states were invited to talk with students of Petro Mohyla Black Sea State University.
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During the visit to Mykolaiv the IWP also organized a working lunch. The invited experts and diplomats used this opportunity to have informal conversations with local experts and public figures.
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Alyona Getmanchuk, Director of the IWP, at the regional TV channel TRK “NIS TV”.
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Sorry, this entry is only available in Ukrainian.

Sorry, this entry is only available in Ukrainian.

On February 11 the Institute of World Policy held the Strategic Discussion Club in Mykolaiv. The topic of the meeting: “The EU, NATO…What will Ensure Ukraine’s Security?” .The event was organized within the project “Strategic Discussion Club in the Regions”, supported by the Government of the Kingdom of Norway.

Being aware of the challenges facing Ukraine today, IWP have decided to hold regular public discussions on the strategic vision of Ukraine’s national security policy in eastern and southern regions of the country. The key objective of the project is to involve regional elites who for a long time have been in intellectual isolation to participate in the debate on strategic development of country.

Open public discussions with the experts from Central and Eastern Europe will help to eliminate longstanding myths about Euro-Atlantic cooperation and European integration, thus fostering internal communication, understanding, and reconciliation between Eastern and Western, Southern and Northern regions of Ukraine.

The discussion was attended by the Ukrainian military and foreign policy experts and diplomats of EU member states, in particular: Ambassador of France to Ukraine Alain Remy, Deputy Head of Mission of the British Embassy in Ukraine Martin Day, Military Attaché of the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Ukraine Mindaugas Kviklis, Counsellor at Royal Norwegian Embassy in Ukraine Richard Scarborough, Director of military programs at the Razumkov Center Mykola Sungurovskiy, Chair of the Board of the Center for strategic Studies Pavlo Zhovnirenko, journalist of the Czech daily newspaper «Lidové noviny» Kateřina Šafaříková.
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Counsellor at Royal Norwegian Embassy in Ukraine Richard Scarborough and Military Attaché of the Embassy of Lithuania in Ukraine Mindaugas Kviklis
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Ambassador of France to Ukraine Alain Remy
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Deputy Head of Mission of the British Embassy in Ukraine Martin Day
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Director of the Institute of World Policy Alyona Getmanchuk and Director of military programs at the Razumkov Center Mykola Sungurovskiy
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Journalist of the Czech daily newspaper «Lidové noviny» Kateřina Šafaříková
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Mykolaiv became the fourth Ukrainian regional center where IWP organized such public discussion. Last year, the meetings of Strategic Discussion Club were been held in Kharkov, Zaporizhzhya and Odessa.

Julia Kharashvili, Chair of IDP Women Association Consent, told about Georgian experience in integration of internally displaced persons at the public discussion, hosted by the IWP and Caucasian House.The event was held within the project “Ukraine out of Crisis through Dialogue”, supported by the British Embassy in Ukraine.

The text of Kharashvili’s speech is available only in Russian.

Alyona Getmanchuk, Director of the Institute of World Policy, spoke at the international conference “NATO and Ukraine: Prospects and Opportunities” hosted by the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Kyiv. The event officially launched activities of the Lithuanian Embassy as a NATO Contact Point Embassy.Linas Linkevičius, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania, Pavlo Klimkin, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Marius Velicka, Deputy Minister of Defense of Lithuania, and Leonid Holopatyuk, First Deputy Minister of Defence of Ukraine were among the speakers.
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Linas Linkevičius, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania, Oleg Kokoshynski, Vice President of the Atlantic Council in Ukraine, Pavlo Klimkin, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, and Volodymyr Ohryzko, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (2007-2009)
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Alyona Getmanchuk, Director of the Institute of World Policy, Leonid Holopatyuk, First Deputy Minister of Defence of Ukraine, Natalia Nemyliwska, Director of the NATO Information and Documentation Centre in Ukraine, and Marius Velicka, Deputy Minister of Defense of Lithuania
Alyona Getmnchuk stressed the existing uncertainty about the format of Ukraine-NATO relations: “Its still unclear if refusal from the non-bloc status leads to the integration into NATO or to neutrality, which is even worth than non-bloc status”.

«Only Russian aggression and external enemy presence forced Ukraine to care about its security. But its still hard to answer whether political will to reform army and security sector in general according to so-called NATO standards will be present when the war ends. Probably, there will be a need for some strong motivation, like return to the Euro-Atlantic integration track and receiving clear membership perspective.

While the benefits of Ukraine’s membership in NATO are quite clear even for ordinary Ukrainians, the benefits of Ukraine’s partnership are still vague and questionable. «Membership or nothing» approach is quite popular both in expert community and civil society. What is the added value of partnership without membership? That is the question I’m frequently asked not only in Kyiv, but around Ukraine,” – said Alyona Getmanchuk.

Director of IWP also presented the infographic on the benefits of Ukraine-NATO cooperation and told the ambitious IWP’s project “Strategic Discussion Club”, aimed to address major threats to Ukraine’s security and increase public control over the security sector. In 2012-2013, IWP organized six meetings of the Strategic Discussion Club in Kyiv. In 2014, the SDC meetings have been held in Kharkiv, Odessa, and Zaporizhzhya.
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The event was attended by over 100 participants including members of the Verkhovna Rada, ambassadors of NATO member countries and partner states, representatives of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Defence, heads of the Ukrainian NGOs.

Sergiy Solodkyy, Deputy Director of the Institute of World Policy, participated in the conference “Back to the Cold War or forward to a stable relationship? Political and energy relations between Russia and the West in the Black Sea”, held in Athens on 22-23 January 2015.Organised by the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), the conference aimed to bring together a number of top thinkers from NATO, EU counties, Ukraine, and Russia to discuss the security in the Black Sea region in the light of the agressive Kremlin’s policy. Among the speakers were also Ambassador Thrassyvoulos Stamatopoulos, Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy of NATO, Ambassador Vladimir Chizhov, Russian representative to the EU, and Dr. Ihor Zhovkva, Head of Directorate General for Foreign Policy and European Integration of the Presidential Administration of the President of Ukraine.
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The conference was co-sponsored by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and was organised under the aegis of the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Sergiy Solodkyy, Deputy Director of the Institute of World Policy
Photos: ELIAMEP.