INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP

EUROATLANTIC INTEGRATION OF UKRAINE: REGIONAL CONTEXT

20-21 March 2003, LVIV, UKRAINE

National Institute for Strategic Studies (NISS) (Kyiv)
Friedrich Ebert Fund (Regional Representatives in Ukraine, Byelorussia and Moldavia)
Independent Cultural Journal “¯” (Lviv)

PROGRAMME

DAY ONE

Thursday, March 20

9:30-10:00 Registration

10:00-10:20 OPENING CEREMONY

Chair:
Anatoliy HALCHYNSKIY Adviser of the President of Ukraine – Director of the National Institute for Strategic Studies

Welcoming remarks:
Myron YANKIV Governor of the Lviv region
Anatoliy HALCHYNSKIY Adviser of the President of Ukraine – Director of the NISS
Helmut KURT Head of the Regional Representatives of Friedrich Ebert Fund in Ukraine, Byelorussia and Moldavia

10:20-13:30 PANEL ONE
GEOPOLITICAL SITUATION IN THE REGION AFTER THE SECOND WAVE OF NATO ENLARGEMENT

10:20-10:40 Actions plan in realising the Strategy of Euroatlantic Integration of Ukraine

Serhiy PYROZHKOV Deputy Secretary of National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine – Director of the National Institute of International Security Problems

10:40 – 11:30 Conceptual approaches to the second wave of NATO enlargement

Paul FRITCH Political Affairs Division, EEPS, NATO HQ
MICHEL DURAY Director of the NATO Information and Documentation Centre in Ukraine
James SHERR Fellow, Conflict Studies Research Centre, UK

11:30-11:40 Coffee break

11:40-12:20 The Role of Ukraine in strategy of the second wave of NATO enlargement

Borys TARASYUK Chairman of the European Integration Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
Grigoriy PEREPELYTSYA Deputy Director – Head of the Military Policy Department of the NISS

12:20-12:40 Geopolitical alternatives of Ukraine after the second wave of enlargement of NATO

Borys PARAKHONSKYI Head of Global Security and European Integration Department of the National Institute of International Security Problems

12:40-13:10 Discussion

13:10-14:10 Lunch (restaurant “DNISTER”)

14:10-17:00 PANEL TWO
THE STATE AND PROSPECTS OF SUBREGIONAL SECURITY CONSOLIDATION AFTER THE SECOND WAVE OF NATO ENLARGEMENT

Chair:
Grigoriy PEREPELYTSYA DeputyDirector – Head of the Military Policy Department of the NISS

14:10-14:30 Territorial issues and ethnic factor under conditions of the second wave of NATO enlargement

Svitlana MITRYAEVA Senior Consultant of Ethnopolicy Department of the NISS

14:30-15:10 New threats to regional security after the second wave of NATO enlargement and mechanisms of their neutralisation

Andriy SOBOLEV Senior Consultant of Military Policy Department of the NISS
Laszlo POTI Senior Researcher, Office for Strategic and Defence Studies, Hungary

15:10-15:30 Strategy of joint actions in crisis situations

Leonid POLYAKOV Director of the Military Programs of the Ukrainian Centre for Economic and Political Studies Named After O. Razumkov

15:30-15:40 Coffee break

15:40-16:00 Illegal migration and refugees as a subregional problem and ways of its overcoming

Mykola TOVT Deputy Head, Department for Nationalities and Migrations Issues, Transcarpatian Regional State Administration, Chief of Migratory Service of Territorial Body, Uzhgorod

16:00-16:20 Experience and missions of NATO - Ukraine

Leonid HOLOPATYUK First Deputy Head, Centre Military Cooperation and Verification, General Staff, Ukraine

16:20-17:00 Discussion

17:30 Departure from the workshop in a bus to the Opera

18:00 Visiting of an Opera

21:00 Departure from the Opera to the restaurant “DNISTER” by bus

21:30 Dinner at the restaurant “DNISTER”

DAY TWO

March 21 (Friday)

9:00-12:00 PANEL THREE
REGIONS IN EUROATLANTIC INTEGRATION OF UKRAINE: HUMANITARIAN AND POLITICAL ASPECTS

Chair:
Taras WOZNIAK Editor-in-chief of the Independent Cultural Journal “¯”, Lviv

9:00 – 9:20 Public opinion in regions of Ukraine concerning entering NATO

Oleksandr SUSHKO Director of the Centre for Peace, Conversion and Foreign Policy of Ukraine, Kiev

9:20 – 10:00 The role of regional mass-media in formation of positive image of NATO

Oleg ROMANCHUK Editor-in-Chief of a magazine “Universum”, Lviv
Lyudmyla FEDORCHUK Head of Co-operation with the countries of East-Central Europe Department, (NISS, branch of Institute of Zakarpattya)

10:00 – 10:20 Interests of the regional elite in the Euroatlantic Integration of Ukraine

Bogdan GUD Director of the Institute of the European Integration (Lviv)

10:20 – 10:40 Subregional cooperation in conditions of the second wave of NATO enlargement

Istvan SZABO Head of Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Hungary

10:40-11:00 Coffe break

11:15-12:00 Discussion

12:00-13:30 PANEL FOUR
CAN THE WESTERN REGION BE THE LOCOMOTIVE OF EUROATLANTIC INTEGRATION OF UKRAINE?

Chair:
Grigoriy PEREPELYTSYA DeputyDirector – Head of the Military Policy Department of the NISS

12:00 – 12:20 European and NATO prospects of Ukraine: historian’s view from Halychyna

Yaroslav HRYTSAK Director of Institute of Historical Studies of the Lviv National University

12:20 – 12:40 Economic, geopolitical and mental resources of Western-Ukraine in the context of Euroatlantic Integration

Taras WOZNIAK Editor-in-Chief of the Independent Cultural Journal “¯”, Lviv

12:40 – 13:00 Concept and problems of the Euroatlantic Integration of Ukraine

Igor BALYNSKYI Lecturer of Faculty of Journalism of the Lviv National University

13:00-13:30 Results and recommendations

13:30 – 14:00 Press Conference

13:30-15:00 Dinner (restaurant “DNISTER”)

Departure of the participants