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YALTA EUROPEAN SEMINAR 2005 PROGRAMME

Thursday, 21st of July, 2005 - Kiev
8.30 pm 

Dinner conference



Friday, 22nd of July, 2005 - Yalta
3.00 pm

Opening of the Yalta European Seminar 2005

Stephen Byers and the YES Executive Board,
Anatoliy Matvienko
, Prime Minister of the Crimea Autonomous Republic - Ukraine
3.30 pm 

Plenary sessions
U and EU: where do we start from?
1. EU and further enlargement: the new context
Chairman: Marek Siwiec, Member of the European Parliament, Chairman of the Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Committee; Member of the Board, YES - Poland
Speakers: 
Manfred Grund
Member of Bundestag - Germany Marcel Koprol, State Secretary for European Affairs - Slovenia
Magda Vasaryova, State Secretary for Foreign Affairs - Slovakia

4.45 pm  Coffee break
5.15 pm 

2. Ukraine and its European destiny, 8 months after the Orange revolution
Chairman: Gareth Evans, President, International Crisis Group - Australia
Speakers: 
Anton Buteiko
First DeputyMinister of Foreign Affairs - Ukraine
Dmitriy Vydrin, Director, European Integration and Development Institute - Ukraine
Guy Carcassonne, Professor of Law - France

6.30 pm  Closing of talks
Saturday, 23 rd of July, 2005 - Yalta
9.00 am 

2 parallel workshops

Workshop 1: European business community's perception of Ukraine and recommendations for fostering economic development
Chairman: Terrence Brown, General Manager, European Investment Bank - ireland
Speakers: 
Boris Nemtsov
Advisor to the President of Ukraine - Russia
Jed Sunden, Publisher, KP PublikationUSA
Philippe Vollot, Managing Director, Deutsche Bank - France
Oliver Wieck, Director, EAST Comine of German Economy - Germany

Workshop 2:  European political leader's perception of Ukraine and recommendations for bringing the country closer to the European Union
Chairman: Alexander Chalyi, Former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs - Ukraine
Introductive Report: Alexander RahrProgram Director, German Council on Foreign Relations - Germany
Speakers:
Judith Gebetsroithner, Member of the Cabinet of Mrs Benita Ferrero-Wladner, European Commissioner - Austria
Ed Owen, Former Special Advisor to Jack Straw, Minister of Foreign Affairs - UK
Olexander Sushko, Director, Centre for Peace, Conversion and Foreign Policy of Ukraine

11.00 am Coffee break
11.30 am  Plenary session: feedback and debate
Chairman: Mario David, Member of Parliament; Former State Secretary for European Affairs - Portugal
Rapporteur Workshop 1: Jean-Pierre Saltiel
Former President, Rothshild International; Member of the Board, YES - France
Rapporteur Workshop 2: Stephane Fouks, M
anaging Director, Havas; Member of the Board, YES - France
Reactions from:
Anatoliy Matvienko, Prime Minister of the Crimea Autonomous Republic - Ukraine
Grigiriy Nemyrya, Director, Centre for European and International Studies - Ukraine
12.30 pm  Lunch
2.30 рm 

Plenary sessions
1. Benchmark on membership strategy: what can be learnt from Turkey, Poland and Croatia?
Chairman: Alexander MartynenkoEditor in Chief, Interfax International Agency - Ukraine
Introductive Report: Andrea Romano
Former Director, Italieni Europei Foundation - Italy
Speakers:
Marija Peijčinović Burić, Stete Secretary on Eurointegration - Croatia 
Suat Kiniklioglu, Director, German Marchall Fund of the US Ankara office - Turkey
International Perspective: Robert Legvold, Professor of Political Science, Columbia University - USA

3.45 pm Coffee break
4.00 pm 2. Next steps for Ukraine - EU relationships
Chairman: Stephen ByersMember of Parliament; Former Minister of Trade and Industry; Former Mininster of Transport; Chairman of the Board, YES - UK
Speakers:
Volodymyr Litvyn, Speaker of the Parliament - Ukraine
Marek Siwiec, Member of the European Parliament, Chairman of the Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Committee; Member of the Board, YES - Poland
Michel Rocard, Member of the European Parliament; Former Prime Minister - France
5.15 pm

Conclusion: Viktor Pinchuk and Stephen Byers

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