Institute of World Policy held on September 19 in Kiev the next meeting of the Strategic Discussion Club “Strong Ukraine: How to Ensure Security?”The event was attended by the leading experts, diplomats of the EU member states, and journalists from all over Ukraine. Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Austria to Ukraine Wolf Dietrich Heim, representative of the Embassy of Kingdom of Norway in Ukraine Sihbyorn Litland, Associated Expert at the Institute for Development and Social Initiatives “Viitorul” (IDIS) in Chisinau Leonid Litra, Scientific Director of the School of Political Analysis (NaUKMA) Oleksiy Haran, and experts of the IWP – Director Alyona Getmanchuk and Deputy Director Sergiy Solodkyy visited Zaporizhzhya. Lithuanian political observer Rimvydas Valatka was invited by the IWP to take part in the debate in Zaporizhzhya.
Together with local experts, community activists and journalists, representatives of local authorities they discussed the most important issues of Ukraine’s national security.
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Director of the IWP Alyona Getmanchuk
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Representative of the Embassy of Norway in Ukraine Sihbyorn Litland and IWP Deputy Director Sergiy Solodkyy
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Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Austria to Ukraine Wolf Dietrich Heim
Experts of the IWP conducted an informal survey “To Hear Zaporizhzhya” among the local participants. Almost a hundred persons were asked to express their opinion what Ukraine should do to ensure its security. The poll had surprising results: 43% of the participants voted for the NATO membership, 26% – the status of major non-NATO ally of the United States, 21% – neutrality, and 10% said that Ukraine should “return itself a nuclear status”. No one has chosen the option “membership in the CSTO”.
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The discussion was organized as a part of the project “Strategic Discussion Club in the Ukrainian Regions”, supported by the Norwegian government, international organization “Internews” and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). This project is a continuation of the previous successful project within which the IWP held six meetings of Strategic Discussion Club in Kyiv last year.
The First Regional Strategic Discussion Club was held in Kharkiv on the 26th of June this year. Well-known political columnist Grzegorz Gromadski from Poland took part in the event. Photo report from the Strategy Discussion Club in Kharkov is available here.
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On September 19, Institute of World Policy held a workshop for journalists from different Ukrainian regions, aimed at giving them detailed insights into the European integration of Ukraine.Journalists from Lutsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Sumy, Lviv, Poltava, Lugansk, Khmelnytsky, Donetsk and Zaporizhzhya together with the well-known Lithuanian political observer Rimvydas Valatka discussed the opportunities and challenges of the European integration of Ukraine and coverage of these processes in the media.
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Rimvydas Valatka, Chief Editor of the largest Lithuanian daily “Lietuvos rytas” and its online edition at lrytas.lt
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The workshop was held within the “Wider integration: you form the future” project supported by the international organization “Internews” and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
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The project intends to spread pro-European and pro-democratic values among the local journalists and wider audiences. The title of the project ‘Wider Integration’ means that Ukrainians from East and West, from South and North need to be united to struggle for the better future of Ukraine. ‘Wider Integration’ is integration between Ukrainian citizens who have to be deprived from Soviet myths about each other and about outer world. Only responsible and fair journalism may allow to achieve democratic future for Ukraine.
After the workshop, its participants took part in the Strategic Discussion Club “Strong Ukraine: How to Insure Security?” attended by the leading experts and EU Ambassadors. Photos.
On September 10, the Institute of World Policy held the Forum entitled “Euro-Atlantic Partnership Day: Results of the NATO Summit in Wales”. More than 130 participants were represented at the Forum.This year’s Forum took place in the Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine and was dedicated to the NATO Summit in Wales held last week. The discussion was very frank, dynamic, and sometimes even provocative.
Over one hundred participants discussed the main results and agreements reached at the Summit (including NATO’s contribution to the security of Ukraine) with these distinguished speakers: Valeriy Chaly, Deputy Head of Presidential Administration of Ukraine,Ihor Kabanenko, Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Jon Elvedal Fredriksen, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Kingdom of Norway to Ukraine, Volodymyr Ohryzko, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (2007-2009),Simon Smith, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Great Britain to Ukraine, Adrian Karatnycky, Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Program on Transatlantic Relations, Valentyn Badrak, Director of the Center for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Studies and others.
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Director of the Institute of World Policy Alyona Getmanchuk, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Valeriy Chaly and Director of the NATO Information and Documentation Centre in Ukraine Natalia Nemyliwska
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Deputy Head of Presidential Administration of Ukraine Valeriy Chaly
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Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges Jamie Shea was being heard through video conferencing. He clarified what NATO as an organization could do for Ukraine.
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Interactivity of the Forum was strengthened by the Tweetbeam
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Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Kingdom of Norway to Ukraine Jon Elvedal Fredriksen and Director of the Center for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Studies Valentyn Badrak
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Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (2007-2009) Volodymyr Ohryzko
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Senior Fellow of the Transatlantic Relations Program at the Atlantic Council Adrian Karatnycky
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Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Ihor Kabanenko
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Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Great Britain to Ukraine Simon Smith
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Deputy Director of the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces Philipp Fluri
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Director of Military Programs at the Razumkov Center Mykola Sungurovsky
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The Institute of World Policy would like to thank the NATO Center of information and documentation in Ukraine for their kind support of the Forum.
On September 9, IWP organized an informal meeting with the participants of different NATO programs, study tours, summer shools etc.The event was held as a part of the project “Partnership Matters” with the aim to launch a permanent communication platform for the activists and experts who specialize in the Euro-Atlantic issues.
A number of experts from different Ukrainian cities (Poltava, Poltava, Vinnytsia and Chernivtsi, Kharkiv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Sumy, Lubni , etc) came to Kyiv to participate in the meeting. Together with their younger colleagues from the Ukraine-NATO Civic League, they debated on how to increase support of Ukrainians towards NATO, new idea how to broaden spheres of cooperation between Ukraine and NATO, and how to deepen the cooperation between Ukraine and NATO. The key speakers at the meeting were the Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Olexander Lytvynenko and the Canadian expert on international security Lada Roslytska.
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Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Olexander Lytvynenko and Director of the IWP Alyona Getmanchuk
The tone of the discussion has been set by IWP director Alyona Getmanchuk who stressed that “Ukraine does not quite clearly define what it wants from the international community, and what it could change.” At the same time she said that the security issue should unite the Ukrainians.
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Canadian expert on international security Lada Roslytska
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The main purpose of the project “Partnership Matters” supported by the NATO Information and Documentation Centre in Ukraine is to encourage a wide public discussion about possible formats of partnership between Ukraine and NATO.
Institute of World Policy has held the Media Club on “Who will coordinate the implementation of the Association Agreement with the EU?” with the Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine Ostap Semerak.The event took place on July 18 at the Institute of World Policy .
July 8, 2014 Ostap Semerak presented the Model of national coordination as to the Ukraine’s implementation of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement. The presentation took place during a high-level meeting of coordination and implementation of the international donor assistance. This model aims to establish cooperation between government and civil society and to create a new system of executive power.
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Ostap Semerak,the Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and Serhiy Solodky, first deputy director of the Institute of World Policy
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Ahead of the media-club the experts discussed the implementation of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union, the operating principle of the Model of national coordination and the interaction of Kyiv with the Support group in Brussels.
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Ostap Semerak, the Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
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Vadym Tryukhan, ex-director of Coordination bureau of the European and Euro – Atlantic Integration
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Pavlo Zhovnirenko, Chairman of the Centre for Strategic Studies
The Media Club was organized within the “New European Policy” project supported by the “Ukraine National Initiatives to Enhance Reforms” (UNITER), funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Pact.
On July 9, Institute of World Policy held a Media Club “US and EU Policy towards Ukraine: Still Unified?”. The event will take place at 3 p.m. at the Institute of World Policy (address: 20/8, Instytutska str.)The events in Ukraine have tested the unity and efficiency of the Transatlantic Partnership. In most cases the U.S. government was more vigorous in its statements and actions than their European counterparts. This discrepancy, quite noticeable during the Euromaidan, has become even more evident after the Russian aggression against Ukraine. The Participants of the Media Club discussed the relations between Ukraine, the U.S. and EU, in particular the introduction of sanctions against Russia, military and financial support of Ukraine.
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Danylo Lubkivskyi, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine;
Samuel Charap, Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia, International Institute for Strategic Studies in Washington, DC;
Dmytro Shulga, European Programme Director, the International Renaissance Foundation (IRF).
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Danylo Lubkivskyi, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
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Samuel Charap, Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia, International Institute for Strategic Studies
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Dmytro Shulga, European Programme Director, the International Renaissance Foundation
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First Deputy Director of the IWP Serhiy Solodky acted as a moderator
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The Media Club was organized within the “New European Policy” project supported by the “Ukraine National Initiatives to Enhance Reforms” (UNITER) project funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Pact.
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Institute of World Policy held Strategic Discussion Club entitled “Strong Ukraine: How to Ensure Security?” in Kharkov on June 26, 2014.{3}
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Director of the NATO liaison office in Ukraine Marcin Koziel
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Polish political journalist and analyst Grzegorz Gromadzki
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Head of the Centre for political studies «Penta» Volodymyr Fesenko
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Member of the Kharkiv City Council Evgeniy Shapoval and Director of the Military programmes of Razumkov Centre Mykola Sungurovskyi
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Consul General of Germany in Donetsk Dr. Detlef Voltaire
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The discussion was organized as a part of the project “Strategic Discussion Club in the Ukrainian Regions”, supported by the Norwegian government, international organization “Internews” and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). This project is a continuation of the previous successful project within which the IWP held six meetings of Strategic Discussion Club in Kyiv last year.
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