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The Institute of World Policy and the Romanian Center for European Policies have published a policy brief “Ukraine‘s Positions on the Transnistrian Conflict and Expectations from OSCE Chairmanship”The author of the policy-brief the director of the Institute of World Policy Alyona Getmanchuk scrutinized Ukraine’s potential as the one of the most important actors in the process of the settlement of the Transnistrian conflict. Ukraine has a great potential to develop the necessary premises for providing a peaceful resolution for the Transnistrian long lasting conflict. However, its potential is randomly used and the interest in taking a more active role is quite limited.

The policy brief emphasizes that Ukraine, due to its geographical position, is able a) to enhance control on the Transnistrian perimeter of the Ukraine-Moldova border, b) to boost regional cooperation, to support the integration mechanisms -such as the development of the Euro-region “Nistru” c) to support the reform of the peacekeeping mission and d) to mediate the talks between Chisinau and the leaders from Tiraspol.
This study is a part of the “Romania – Ukraine: Civic Forum,” which is implemented in cooperation with the Romanian Center for European Policy and the Institute of World Policy.

The full version of the policy-brief could be accessed here

Institute of World Policy prepared the policy brief of analytical notes “Twitter-diplomacy. How new technologies could enhance the position of Ukraine on the international arena?”The aim of the research was to stress the importance of using the Twitter-diplomacy tools by Ukrainian diplomats for sharing information, getting public reaction on it, strengthening the country’s relations with external partners, and also facilitating of the communication process within the Ukrainian diplomatic corps.
During the last decades Tweeter-diplomacy has been developing with a frantic pace. The Ukrainian diplomacy has already taken the first steps in this area, and now it should use the opportunities provided by e-diplomacy in a more efficient way. Ukrainian diplomats should use the Twitter-diplomacy tools for sharing information, getting public reaction on it, for strengthening the country’s relations with the external partners and for facilitating communication within the Ukrainian diplomatic corps. Therefore, forming of the policy of encouraging diplomats to the use of Twitter-diplomacy, development of training programs for learning the necessary skills and engaging organizations and individuals to discuss the foreign policy questions should be seen as a priority. This is especially significant nowadays, when Ukraine faces serious challenges towards building the stable dialogue with the international partners.
The full version of the research in Ukrainian and English language can be found here.

IWP and Romanian Center for European Policies have published a report “Narrowing the Perceptions Gap – Views from Kyiv and Bucharest”.The paper identifies and explains a number of negative perceptions and gives details about possible solutions which diplomats of the two capitals should take into account in order to move to a consistent bilateral agenda and to build a partnership based on strategic objectives.

Romania pays more attention to the relationship with Russia and seems to ignore its nearest neighbor, Ukraine, with which it shares common strategic interests. Unfortunately, the relationship between Romania and Ukraine seems to have remained captive to certain common misunderstandings, despite the strong strategic interests shared by the two parties.

Romanian Center for European Policies and the Institute of World Policy (Ukraine) organized in Bucharest, the Romania – Ukraine Civic Forum (May 2012), the first opportunity for Romanian and Ukrainian experts to look beyond the negative stereotypes, misperceptions and historical disputes and seek concrete proposals and areas of cooperation for Bucharest and Kiev.

Deepening relations between the two countries, overcoming or correcting negative perceptions, building or developing other dimensions of existing partnerships are some of the directions diplomats, experts and authorities in the two countries will have to build.
 Europeanization of the Romania – Ukraine agenda is seen as a key concept for a consistent and fair cooperation in the future. Romania could come up with examples of best practices from EU and neighboring countries to correct some of the perceptions mentioned above. Debates could include elites of the two countries, especially because among them neutral perceptions regarding the bilateral relations were identified.

 Building around the gaps: The minorities issue is the poisoning one in the bilateral agenda. Both Bucharest and Kyiv show interest in it but the official dialogue is deficient. We recommend therefore a neutral, external actor, to address this issue. This mediator could be the EU which also has a stake in solving minority problems.

 Eastern Partnership – More efforts are necessary from Romanian diplomacy to position itself as an advocate within EU for other countries in the region (besides R. of Moldova). Ukraine is also very much interested in the solution of the frozen Transnistrian conflict on its border and this could be one of the key elements on the common agenda.

 Regional cooperation – Romania should include Ukraine in its strategic partnership with Poland for deepening and consolidating a trilateral relation.

 OSCE Chairmanship 2013 – Ukraine will come back in the international spotlight when taking over the OSCE Chairmanship in 2013 and Bucharest should encourage Kyiv into paying attention to Transnistrian conflict.

Full version of the Policy Memo here.