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The Institute of World Policy has held a Media Club featuring Petr Mares, Ambassador-At-Large of the Czech Republic for the Eastern Partnership, ex-Deputy Prime Minister for Research, Development and Human Rights (2002-2004).7 October 2011Participants discussed the results of the EU Warsaw Summit.
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Petr Mares, Ambassador-At-Large of the Czech Republic for the Eastern Partnership
“On the whole I consider it to be successful, though the absence of Belarus was the biggest dissapointment,” the Czech high-rank diplomat admitted.
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Petr Mares also commented on Ukraine’s European integration achievements, stating that the Ukraine-EU association agreement is to be signed in December 2011.
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“Czech Republic will go on providing strongest support to Ukraine’s European aspirations,” he said.
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Petr Mares and Kateryna Zarembo, deputy director, Institute of World Policy

Photo by Stanislav Gruzdev

On September 11-14, 2011, non-governmental experts from the EU, Moldova, Russia, Transnistria, Ukraine, and the U.S. met at the Frankenwarte Academy in Wuerzburg, Germany for the first session of the Transnistria Conflict Resolution Task Force (TCRTF), supported by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, the Institute for World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the European Union and UN Development Program.Modeled on the Dartmouth Dialogues that promoted “sustained dialogue” between the West and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, the TCRTF hopes to build upon this process in order to build mutual trust and respect among all parties involved in the Transnistria conflict. The primary goal of the Task Force is not to resolve the conflict or decide on Transnistria’s final status, but to develop a bette r understanding of each stakeholder’s interests while exploring opportunities to enhance confidence, and preparing a multilateral network to do the essential work of connecting high-level policy decisions with civil society in the context of a future resolution to the conflict.

The inaugural TCRTF meeting produced fruitful discussions about the conflict’s impact on people’s everyday lives, the role of outside actors such as Russia and the EU and conflict resolution mechanisms. Participants concluded that concentrating on confidence-building measures and civil society initiatives would help ease the current political stalemate in the Transnistrian conflict settlement process and support the recently announced resumption of formal 5+2 negotiations. In keeping with the format of “sustained dialogue,” the Task Force will reconvene six months from now to assess progress, evaluate new challenges, and suggest ways to move forward.

The Institute of World Policy held the presentation of the “Street University” – the exhibition of cartoons “Ukraine as seen by neighboring countries”, created as a part of the project “Ukraine’s Soft Power: The tool for effective foreign policy” on September 24-25, 2011 at Kreshchatyk street.At the exhibition the experts of the IWP talked to the guests of the street exhibition, introducing the policy paper “Ukraine’s Soft Power: A tool for effective foreign policy”, in which the perceptions of the Ukraine in neighboring countries, Moldova, Belarus, Poland, Georgia, Russia and Romania, are studied.
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The main topics of the cartoons were the European integration of Ukraine, gas conflict, friendship and tensions in relations with neighbours, dynamic Ukrainian pop-culture.

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The exhibition was actively discussed by the guests of the event, so this social-political event appeared to be more interesting than any other cultural events that took place in the Kreshchatyk street that day.
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Andriy Klyuyev, first Vice-minister of Ukraine and Mikhail Brodskyy, representative of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on economic deregulation visited the exhibition
People’s reaction to the cartoons was different, but most of the visitors kept smiling when they recognized the popular stereotypes depicted by the cartoonists.
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Kateryna Zarembo, Deputy director of the Institute of World Policy and Roland Kovacz, UNITER director.

The event was held within the framework of the project: “Ukraine’s Soft Power: A tool for effective foreign policy”, which is implemented by the Institute of World Policy with the support of Ukraine National Initiatives to Enhance Reforms (UNITER) project funded by USAID and implemented by Pact in Ukraine.

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IWP team

Photo by Natalia Sagalata

The Institute of World Policy held the presentation of the “Street University” – the exhibition of cartoons “Ukraine as seen by neighboring countries”, created as a part of the project “Ukraine’s Soft Power: The tool for effective foreign policy” on September 24-25, 2011 at Kreshchatyk street.{3}
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Female team of IWP
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Photo by Natalia Sagalata

The Institute of World Policy held the presentation of the policy paper and cartoon exhibition “Ukraine through the eyes of the neighboring countries” in the framework of the project “Ukraine’s Soft Power in the region: The Tool for Effective Foreign Policy”Official presentation took place in the Radisson Blue Hotel and it was visited by the representatives of the state institutions, politicians, diplomats, businessmen, artists, writers, civil society leaders and journalists.
Full text of the study you may download here

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Viktor Shlinchak, Chair of the IWP’s Supervisory Council

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Alyona Getmanchuk, director of the Institute of World Policy and Kateryna Zarembo, IWP’s Deputy Director

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Viktor Shlinchak, Alyona Getmanchuk, Yulia Lymar, Editor-in-Chief of the GLAVCOM News and Analytical Agency, Yury Pavlenko
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Roman Bezsmertnyy, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
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Alyona Getmanchuk and Teresia Yatsenyuk, Chair of the Supervisory Council of the “OPEN Ukraine” Fund
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Viktor Shlinchak and Anka Feldhusen, Embassy of Germany to Ukraine
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Taras Mykhalniuk, Director of the OPEN Ukraine Foundation, Marten Ehnberg, Embassy of Sweden to Ukraine
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Marius Yanukonis, Embassy of Lithuania to Ukraine, Boguslav Gertruda, Embassy of Poland to Ukraine, Taras Mykhalniuk
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Andriy Kozhemiakin, Member of Parliament of Ukraine with spouse and Yulia Lymar
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Aleksandr Bryhynetsm Head of the Culture and Tourism permanent commission in the Kyiv City Council, Viktor Shlinchak and Jacques Faure, Ambassador of France to Ukraine
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Olga Bohomolets, PhD, performer of Ukrainian songs.
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Hans Jurgen-Heimsoeth, Ambassador of Germany to Ukraine.
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Jacques Faure
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Mykola Veresen
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Lauri Lepik, Ambassador of Estonia to Ukraine and Olesia Yakhno
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Balazs Jarabik, Head of Pact Ukraine in Kiev, Oleksandr Sushko, research director of the Institute of the Euro-Atlantic Cooperation

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Ion Stavila, Ambassador of Moldova to Ukraine and Kateryna Peshko, GLAVCOM.
Photo by Stanislav Gruzdev and Natalia Sagalata

The Institute of World Policy hled the presentation of the policy paper and cartoon exhibition “Ukraine through the eyes of the neighboring countries” in the framework of the project “Ukraine’s Soft Power in the region: The Tool for Effective Foreign Policy”{1}
Viktor Shlinchak
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Taras Mykhalnyuk, Teresia Yatsehyuk
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Galyna Kaplyuk, “GLAVCOM”
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Alyona Getmanchuk, Director of the Institute of World Policy

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Andriy Kozhemyakin, MP Ukraine with spouse
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Yulia Yesmukhanova, Olga Prokhorchuk, UNITER Project
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Olesya Yakhno, an Expert, Anatoliy Lutsenko, Director of the GMT Group

Photo by Natalia Sagalata and Stanislav Gruzdev

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The Institute of World Policy in partnership with Carnegie Moscow Center hold a DVC Kyiv-Moscow “Euro-Atlantic Missile Defense System: a View from Russia and Ukraine”.The leading Russian and Ukrainian experts discussed the possible engagement of Russia and Ukraine into Euro-Atlantic Missile Defense Shield.
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Russian experts came to the conclusion that NATO-Russia consultations on missile defense have not led to any results.
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Regarding the possilbe Ukraine’s engagement into NATO MDS they suggested several alternatives.

– Ukraine is a sovereign state, so it can decide all security issues by itself.
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Alyona Getmanchuk, director of the Institute of World Policy
– Ukraine should be activeky involved in the MDS issues, as the attacking missile can be possible intercepted over Ukraine’s territory. That would cause damages and this risk should be taken into consideration.
– Ukraine and Russia should cooperate on creating the common air defense system. Russia is particulary interested in the Ukraine’s research and technological potential.

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Olexiy Rumiantsev, military and sea attache of the Russian Federation
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Svitlana Rotaenko, Programme Officer at NATO Information and Documentation Centre

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Mykola Sumgurovskyy, director of military programmes, Razumkov Center
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Kateryna Zarembo, deputy director of the Institute of World Policy and Roman Horbyk, IWP’s analyst.

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Vitaliy Begma, head of the department for defense and military policy of National Institute for Strategic Studies of Ukraine

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Viktor Shlinchak, Chair of the Supervisory Board of the Institute of World Policy

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Olexiy Kolomiets, director, Center for European and Transatlantic Studies
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Oksana Pyliavets, analyst of the Institute of World Policy

The DVC was held within the framework of the project «Ukraine in NATO Missile Defense System: Pro et Contra», which is implemented by the IWP in partnership with Center for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Studies and supported by NATO Liaison Office in Ukraine.

The Panel Discussion in the “Weimar triangle” format entitled “Ukraine-EU relations: the decisive moment” was held in the Institute of World Policy. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Germany to Ukraine H.E. Hans-Jurgen Heimsoeth, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of France to Ukraine H.E. Jacques Faure, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Poland to Ukraine H.E. Henryk Litwin took part in the Discussion.Participants of the Discussion touched upon the most actual problems of the EU-Ukraine relations, in particular the prospects of signing the Association and Deep and comprehensive area agreements before the end of this year. “Association agreement and free trade agreement depend much on the further imprisonment of Yulia Tymoshenko,” Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Germany to Ukraine H.E. Hans-Jurgen Heimsoeth said. “There are some politicians who could hardly see that Germany signs the Association Agreement with Ukraine when Yulia Tymoshenko is behind the bars. I also can not understand fully the legal reasons for keeping Tymosjenko in prison for 6 weeks. The same concerns the other person (Yuriy Lutsenko), whose detention is also questionable.”

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of France to Ukraine H.E. Jacques Faure shared the same opinion, claiming that domestic developments in Ukraine concern the European countries, because of the democracy and human rights standards. “There is a strong impression that Tymoshenko’s case is politically motivated,” Ambassador Faure confirmed. “Rule of law and democratic principles are the most important preconditions for the negotiations on Association agreement,” he said.

However, ambassadors of the “Weimar triangle” countries agreed that Ukraine still has a chance to complete negotiations on FTA and Association Agreement this year. “Hypothetically, Association agreement with Ukraine may be signed in December at the Ukraine-EU summit,” Hans-Jurgen Heimsoeth claimed.

“I do beileve that parties have reciprocal understanding of the importance of the process, so we can expect the initialing of the agreement by the end of the year,” Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Poland to Ukraine said. He also underlined that the Ukrainian civil society should not lay the responsibility for what is going in Ukraine on the EU’s shoulders. “Western Europe has much more important issues to discuss than the situation in Ukraine,” Polish diplomat stated, emphasizing that Ukraine is still a strategic partner of Poland.

Discussion was moderated by Alyona Getmanchuk, director of the Institute of World Policy.

IWP held a Media-club with Ambassador Dirk Brengelmann, NATO’s Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy on 8 September.The Institute of World Policy held the Media-club with Ambassador Dirk Brengelmann, who made a brief address on the current priorities of NATO-Ukraine relations and practical cooperation and will then answered questions by Ukrainian journalists. Ambassador Brengelmann is visiting Kyiv to hold regular annual bilateral consulatations with high-level Ukrainian officials at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Presidential Administration, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, the National Security and Defence Council and the Verkhovna Rada.

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Ambassador Dirk Brengelmann, NATO’s Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy
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Alyona Getmanchuk, Director of the Institute of World Policy
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Serhiy Cherevatyy, “5 Channel”
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Tetiana Yarmoshchuk, “Radio Liberty”
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Oksana Pyliavets, Institute of World Policy
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Viktor Shlinchak, Chair of the Supervisory Board
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Serhiy Sydorenko, Kommersant Daily
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Martin Shaeffer, Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation

Institute of World Policy entered into a partnership with “5 Channel” in organization of the television marathon titled Ukrainian Independence.It is devoted to the 20th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence and is to set a world record, entering into history as history as the world’s longest television talk-show marathon.
Institute of World Policy provided an analytical support of the television marathon and organization of the phone connections with marathon guests.
Viktor Shlinchak, Chair of the Supervisory Board of the Institute of World Policy and Alyona Getmanchuk, IWP Director also co-hosted some of the thematic blocs of the television marathon.
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