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Will Ukraine help or hinder European security?

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Experts and policy-makers from Ukraine, Russia and the EU will try to answer this question at a roundtable entitled “Whose Security Concerns?”, to be held in Kyiv n June 11. The event is organized by the Open Ukraine Foundation of Arseniy Yatsenyuk.    

Ukraine faces real security threats. Political elites are unable to work together. They hold Ukraine’s foreign policy choices hostage to their immediate political and economic interests. As a result, security guarantees from Kyiv’s key international partners are not forthcoming, and the absence of national safeguards endangers the Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. The population is divided over the Euro-Atlantic integration and on the choice of strategic partners. The political establishment is unable to formulate national interests and put them into practice.

The Open Ukraine Foundation of Arseniy Yatsenyuk is pleased to initiate an expert discussion on Ukraine’s national security and the future of pan-European security architecture. The roundtable will start with a panel on Ukraine: its East-West balancing act, as well as current events that are likely to pose real threats to its sovereignty and territorial integrity. Discussions will continue with a panel on security in the Black Sea region. The Russia-Ukraine deal extending the lease for the Russian fleet in Sevastopol has prompted worries about security in this strategically important region, from ecological concerns to the potential risks of offensive military action. Finally, experts will debate the question of the future place of Europe in global affairs and the possibility of building a united Europe on the whole continent, including Russia.

The roundtable will be attended by Arseniy YATSENYUK, MP, leader of Party “Front Zmin” and founder of the Open Ukraine Foundation (Ukraine); Andriy FIALKO Advisor to the President of Ukraine; Valeriy CHALY, Deputy Director General of Razumkov Centre and coordinator of the sector “European choice” in the Government of Change (Ukraine); Oleksandr CHALYI, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine; Irina KOBRINSKAYA, Leading Research Fellow at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia); Richard YOUNGS, Director General of FRIDE (Spain); Serhiy HLEBOV, associate professor in the Department of International Relations and researcher at the Centre for International Studies, Odesa Mechnikov National University (Ukraine); Mitat CELIKPALA, associate professor in the Department of International Relations, TOBB University of Economics and Technology (Turkey); Andrew WILSON, Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (UK).         

The roundtable is organized by the Open Ukraine Foundation in partnership with the Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation, a project of the German Marshall Fund of the United States. It will be held from 13:00 to 18:30 on June 11 in Kyiv (conference-hall in the hotel “Rus”, 4 Hospitalna Street). To consult the programme please visit the website:  http://ksf.openukraine.org/en/2010/agenda

Media accreditation: Ruslan Kyrylenko, tel.: 235-52-98, e-mail: rk@openukraine.org