World community demands new system of cooperation
A global financial crisis became that final impulse which forced world community to look differently on the situation in many spheres of its activity. However, real steps are needed to get out of the crisis and to introduce the new system of cooperation. International experts, known politicians and leading economists confirmed this on Thursday, December 17th, 2009, during the International conference “World in Crisis: Security Implications and Challenges for Wider Europe”, organised by the Open Ukraine Foundation.
“The world crisis pointed just one thing. There is no single hegemon in the world anymore. But new centres of influence appear. And either European countries, including members and not-members of the EU, do unite for European continent to form powerful centre of influence, either we will stay behind again. It was America before, in some ten years it will be China. Events in the world are developing very dynamically now. It is a chance for us to get leadership. For us as a united Europe”, - Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the leader of the “Front zmin” political party, the peoples’ deputy of Ukraine, the founder of the Open Ukraine Foundation, said while opening the Conference.
The world crisis has changed accents not only in geopolitical or financial environment. It has touched the grounds of existence of many international organizations. Particularly, Michel Dure, Head of the Outreach Countries Section, Public Diplomacy Division, NATO Headquarter has stressed on the changes which are happening in NATO: “The nature of cooperation principles of the NATO with other structures is changing. Now we have a lot of understanding of security, democracy, culture societies. On the other way there are many general problems and security threats. Finding consensus between this understanding, solving general problems and threats’ preventing is indeed the new interface of cooperation. A lot of international organizations exist today, and NATO is not to govern them, but to look for wider approaches to cooperation. Each international organization must find its own niche, then it will be possible to work together to manage the crisis”.
Something new and progressive always appears owing to difficulties’ overcoming. “This crisis gave us the vision of the real objectivity. Owing to the crisis the countries of the world have chance for changes, making reforms and the possibility to become stronger”, - Pirkka Tapiola, Senior Adviser, Policy Unit, Council of the European Union, General Secretariat, underlined.
Representatives of the European Union, the NATO, the OSCE, the GUAM, the BSEC, the EBRD, embassies, government and non-government organizations, research institutes from over twenty countries of the world attended the event.
The International conference took place in the network of the KYIV SECURITY FORUM, held annually by the Open Ukraine Foundation, under assistance of the Royal Institute of International Affairs Chatham House (London), European Policy Centre (Brussels), and the Regional Representation of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation for Belarus and Ukraine. The financial aid was granted by the Black Sea Trust of German Marshall Fund and the Polish Aid Program.
