Forum 2009
Open Ukraine Foundation regrets to inform you that the THIRD KYIV SECURITY FORUM “World in Crisis: Security Implications and Challenges for Wider Europe”, which had to take place in Kyiv on November 12-13, 2009, is CANCELED due to the force-major epidemic situation of A(H1N1) flu in Ukraine and respective decisions by Ukrainian state authorities.
Though the Open Ukraine Foundation in the network of the Third Kyiv Security Forum, on Thursday, December 17th, 2009, held the International conference “World in Crisis: Security Implications and Challenges for Wider Europe”. Organizing the International Conference on such a specific and a little studied in Ukraine question as the impact of economic crisis on the security sector, the Open Ukraine Foundation strove to present the leading views on the interdependence of economy and security, to provide an opportunity for discussion of experts on these issues and create an atmosphere to find new solutions.
Representatives of the European Union, the NATO, the OSCE, the GUAM, the BSEC, the EBRD, embassies, government and non-government organizations, research institutes of over twenty countries of the world attended the event.
The conference took place in the network of the Kyiv Security Forum, held annually by the Open Ukraine Foundation. This year partners of the event became the Royal Institute of International Affairs Chatham House (London), the 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.
Kyiv Security Forum site - http://ksf.openukraine.org
