Workshop – 15 October 2009
Getting right security in NATO’s wider neighbourhood: does this still matter? The future of NATO’s partnership network. A special focus on the Balkans and Wider Black Sea-Caspian region.”
Program
9,30 -10.00: Registration of the participants
10.00-11.30: Session I “New perspectives on NATO’s wider neighbourhood”
(media allowed)
moderator Iulian Chifu, director of CPCEW
10.00-10.30: Opening Statement by Catalin Predoiu, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Message of the NATO Deputy Secretary General, Ambassador Claudio Bisogniero (transmited through VTC)
10.30-11.30: Forward address of Mr. Iulian Fota, Presidential Advisor for Security;
11.00-11.30: Debate
Topics:
– The role of the Eastern Partnership countries and of the Black Sea for the Euro-Atlantic security; NATO’s role in the region;
– The hypothesis of a “win-win” approach of NATO-Russia relation;
– NATO and the security in the vicinity of the Alliance: from the false dilemma of regional instability to the transborder threat assesment and countering.
12.00 -13.30: Session II: “The future of NATO’s partnership network”
(closed-door debate, media not allowded)
· moderator Bogdan Aurescu, State Secretary for Strategic Affairs MFA
Positions:
· Ambassador Kim Traavik, Permanent Representantive of Norway to NATO
· Ambassador Sorin Ducaru, Permanent Representantive of Romania to NATO.
Topics for debate:
– Importance of regional stability;
– Defining the Partenerships (from EAPC to the Mediteranean Dialogue and Global Partenerships);
– NATO’s enlargement policy
13.30 -13.45: Session III: Conclusions
· Presentation Iulian Chifu, director of CPCEW