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November 16th Alyona Getmanchuk, IWP director, presented recommendaations concerning Ukrainian-US relations during a roundtable discussion in the Verkhovna Rada.The roundtable’s theme was “The consequences of the presidential election in the United States of America for Ukraine. Strategy for further action.” The meeting took place based on the initiative of the Verkhovna Rada’s foreign relations subcommittee on European and Euro-Atlantic integration.
Alyona Getmanchuk presented the IWP’s memo concerning Ukraine’s politics on the USA after the election of the 45th head of the White House, as well as recommendations from the “Foreign Policy Audit: Ukraine-USA.”
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Representatives of the legislative and executive powers and NGO’s discussed the results of the US presidential elections with the goal of developing a vision of future development of relations between Ukraine and the US.
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Moderator Svitlana Zalishchuk, head of the Verkhovna Rada’s foreign relations subcommittee on European and Euro-Atlantic integration, summed up the results of the discussion in this manner:
– It is so far too early to make conclusions about how the structure of bilateral relations between the USA and Ukraine will change after the election of Donald Trump as the president of America. A calm and calculating approach is necessary in setting up communication with the new power in Washington
– The thesis that Ukrainian officials need to develop a unified strategy of relations with Washington and underline concrete goals and messages for the American side to clearly hear and understand has been generally approved.
– The participants declared the importance of correctly emphasizing those successes which our government has achieved in conducting reforms.
– An agreement was reached that Ukraine should be the first one to propose a strategy of relations with Washington without waiting for the first steps to be taken by the American side.
– Among Ukraine’s priorities defined by the experts in cooperation with the US was the security sphere and macrofinancial and economic assistance. Emphasis was placed on the importance of making clear to the American side the importance of the Ukrainian question for all of Central-Eastern Europe.
According to her, a series of ideas and proposition will be included in the recommendations with the results of the parliamentary hearings concerning foreign policy on December 7.

On November 11 the Institute of World Policy held a public discussion and presented a discussionpaper on the Ukrainian-Poland relations within the project “Ukraine’s Foreign Policy Audit”.The research paper was written by Kateryna ZAREMBO, Deputy Director, Institute of World Policy. To read the paper click here.

Diplomats, policy and decision makers, experts have been invited to take part in the discussion, in particular,Jan PIEKLO, Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Ukraine, Lukasz ADAMSKI, Deputy Director of the Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding, Yaroslav ROMANCHUK, President of the Association of Ukrainian business in Poland, Oksana YURYNETS, Member of the Ukrainian Parliament, Co-chairman of the inter-parliamentary friendship group with Poland, Oleg MUSIY, MP, member of of the inter-parliamentary friendship group with Poland, and others.

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Watch full video of the discussion here.
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The project is implemented with the support of the Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation of German Marshall Fund of the USA, and the “Think Tank Support Initiative” implemented by the International Renaissance Foundation (IRF) in partnership with Think Tank Fund (TTF) with financial support of the Embassy of Sweden in Ukraine.

1 month ago the Institute of World Policy presented an audit of relations between Ukraine and China. Today, Sergiy Solodkyy, First Deputy Director of the IWP, took part in the Ukrainian Silk Road Forum.The goal of the forum was to transform ideas, including those stated the analytical center’s research, into practical steps in terms of political dialogue, the investment platform, and in questions of cultural interaction. The main goal of the conference, which was organized by Silk Link and the Silk Road International Chamber of Commerce, was to bring Ukrainian-Chinese relations to a new level.

Marina Poroshenko, the Head of the Petro Poroshenko Foundation; Hennadiy Zubko, Deputy Prime Minister; Iryna Herashchenko, First Deputy Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada; Dmitro Shymkiv, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration, and others took part in the Forum.

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Daria Gaidai, Institute of World Policy analyst, took part in the sixth Minsk Dialogue meeting, which took place on November 1-2nd in the capital of Belarus. The theme of the international expert conference was “The Future of Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus: the intersection of foreign policy, security, and business”The expert initiative “Minsk Dialogue” (Belarus), the University of Giessen (Germany) and the Department of International Relations of the Belarusian State University presented as co-organizers of the conference.

Goals of the conference:

– To form a map of national, regional, and external approaches to the determination of challenges which stand before Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus.
– To conduct a thorough SWOT-analysis of Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus in a system of international relations on the European continent.

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Member of Eastern Partnership countries, Russia, and Germany discussed strategic challenges which stand before the countries of Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus in the sphere of security, economy, and foreign policy, as well as develop a SWOT-matrix of the future region.
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Mykola Bielieskov, analyst of the Institute of World Policy, attended a panel with a delegation of experts from the Reanimation Package of Reforms on October 24-28th, 2016The visit was organized by the IWP along with partners from the Reanimation Package of Reforms and Transparency International Ukraine.

October 24-28th, 2016 Ukrainian analysts had a series of open and closed meetings in Berlin at the Bundestag Committee, German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Chancellery Office, and DGAP (German Council on Foreign Relations) and SWP (German Institute for International and Security Affairs) analytical centers.

The delegation from Ukraine (5 members) presented to their German colleagues their evaluation of the situation with the reforms in the areas of anticorruption and economy. Potential forms of closer involvement from the EU in these processes were also discussed.

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Angela Merkel’s key advisor concerning Ukraine, Abraham Knuth, stands with Ukrainian experts.

Analyst Mykola Bielieskov presented a Memo on “red lines” for the regulation of the conflict in the east of Ukraine, initiated by the IWP and prepared together with partners from other analytical centers. Moreover, during the meetings with the German partners emphasis was put on the need for the FRG’s active participation in the development of a road map for the implementation of the Minsk agreements, in particular for the creation of authentic conditions in the sphere of safety for the start of the political portion of regulation.
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In addition to this, the Ukrainian delegation paid considerable attention to the critical need for keeping EU sanctions against Russia in place as a means of guaranteeing Moscow’s complete fulfillment of the Minsk agreements. As the meetings demonstrated, the German partners share the views expressed in the IWP memo, especially concerning safety conditions for voting.
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The project was realized due to the support of the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Ukraine.

The Institute of World Policy coordinated the project “Index of European integration of Eastern Partnership countries” from Ukraine. In Kyiv on November 1st a meeting of experts intending to take part in preparing research took place.The goal of the initiative was to make known the tempo of actualization of reforms in Eastern Partnership countries via publication of a comprehensive monitoring report, as well as to conduct an advocacy campaign in Eastern Partnership countries and in the EU.

Our partners from member countries of the EU and Eastern Partnership came to take part in the methodological seminar in Kyiv. In particular, experts from Great Britain, Armenia, Belarus, and Lithuania came. Methodology for future research was developed by these experts, along with experts from the IWP and International Renaissance Foundation, taking into consideration the political and economic changes in the region.
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The meeting took place owing to the support of the International Renaissance Foundation.

On October 28, the Institute of World Policy held a public discussion “Foreign Policy Audit: Ukraine-Moldova”.At the event Olena BETLIY, Research Fellow at the Institute of World Policy, presented a discussion paper.

Diplomats, policy and decision makers, experts took part in the discussion, in particular, Ruslan BOLBOCEAN, Ambassador of the Embassy of the Republic of Moldova to Ukraine, Valerii ZHOVTENKO, Ambassador at Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.

Moderator: Leonid LITRA,Senior Research Fellow, Institute of World Policy.

To read the discussion paper “Foreign Policy Audit: Ukraine-Moldova”.

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On October 24, the Institute of World Policy together with Truman Agency presented the first edition of ‘Index of Relations’ within the ‘Foreign Policy Audit’ project.Every four months we will evaluate the relations’ dynamics on Ukraine’s key foreign policy directions: the U.S., the EU, Russia, and China. Besides IWP experts will prepare a special edition on certain topic. This time our special edition was titled ‘Does Transnistria Change the Game in the Region?’

Speakers: Alyona Getmanchuk, Sergiy Solodkyy, Leonid Litra, Daria Gaidai, Andriy Goncharuk,Viktoriya Zakrevskaya

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Details about the research:

IWP analysts assessed the recent events in Ukrainian foreign policy within the key directions such as: the EU, USA, China, and Russia. The assessment is based not only on their observations but also on the exclusive comments of the Ukrainian officials, Ukrainian and foreign diplomats, and opinion leaders.

The study focuses on the events determining the bilateral relations’ as well as on the profound analysis of the prerequisites for shaping partner countries’ (regions’) approaches towards Ukraine.

The monitoring will be published on a regular basis, which will allow to observe the dynamics of bilateral relations’ development as well as to compare the forecasts with the current situation.

The expert group, in parallel with the qualitative analysis of the key foreign policy events, provides also an assessment in the quantitative terms (index).

On October 18th, the IWP, together with partners from other analytical centers, presented in Brussels the analysis «Not so quiet on the Eastern Front: the audit of Minsk agreements and options for the reintegration of Ukraine».This report is the product of the combined efforts of experts from the Institute of World Politics, Vox Ukraine, the «Democratic Intitiaves» Foundation, and the Donetsk Institute of Information. The full text of the report can be found here.

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Speakers:

Kateryna Zarembo, assistant director of the Institute of World Politics

Timofiy Milovanov, co-founder of VoxUkriane.org, acting President of the Kiev School of Economics

Maria Zolkina, political analyst from the «Democratic Initiatives» Foundation

The discussion was monitored by Olena Pristayko, acting director of the Ukraine Think Tanks Liason Office in Brussels.

In presenting the results of their research, experts discussed with their European colleagues the question of the implementation of the Minsk agreements in the area of external politics, economics, social relations, and civil thought, as well as possible scenarios for the further development of actions.

The enterprise was organized by the Ukraine Think Tanks Liason Office in Brussels and the Center for European Policy Studies.

This publication was prepared under «The Think Tank Support Initiative», which is operated by the International Renaissance Foundation (IRF) in partnership with the Think Tank Fund and the Ukraine Think Tanks Liason Office in Brussels. This initiative operates with the financial support of the Swedish Embassy in Ukraine.