Yalta European Strategy

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7th comference of Yalta European Strategy is taking place.

Programme

7th Yalta Annual Meeting
September 30 — October 3, 2010
Livadia Palace, Yalta, Ukraine
Ukraine and the World: Re-Thinking and Moving On

Thursday, September 30
20:30 Welcome Reception

Friday, October 1
09:00 — 09:30 Conference Opening

Welcoming remarks:
Aleksander Kwasniewski, President of Poland (1995-2005), Chairman of the Board of YES
Victor Pinchuk, Founder and Member of the Board of YES

Moderator:
Chrystia Freeland, Global Editor-at-Large, Reuters News


09:30 — 10:15 Ukraine in a Changing World

Viktor Yanukovych, President of Ukraine


10:15 — 11:00 Europe’s Future in a Time of Challenges

Bronislaw Komorowski, President of the Republic of Poland


11:30 — 12:40 The New Global Order and Its Key Players

Stefan Füle, European Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighborhood Policy (opening remarks)
Alexander Babakov, Deputy Speaker, State Duma of the Russian Federation
Kostyantyn Gryshchenko, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
Javier Solana, fmr. High Representative of the EU for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Member of the Board of YES
Wang Jisi, Dean, School of International Studies, Peking University


12:40 — 13:00 Euro 2012 — A Chance for Business to Contribute to Ukraine’s Modernisation: Kharkiv as a Case Study

Alexander Yaroslavskiy, General investor and coordinator of Kharkov for Euro 2012, Owner and President of DCH, President of FC Metalist


14:20 — 15:30 The Crisis and Economic Re-Building

Alexei Kudrin, Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation (opening remarks)
Iryna Akimova, First Deputy Head, Administration of the President of Ukraine
Anders Aslund, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Olivier Descamps, Managing Director, Turkey, Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia, EBRD
Andrey Kostin, President, VTB Bank


15:30 — 16.00 What Happened to Our Economies and How To Avoid It Happening Again? (TV Link)

Martin Wolf, Columnist, Financial Times and Fred Bergsten, Director, Peterson Institute of International Economics


16:00 — 17:00 Climate Change — A Global Threat Ignored in Ukraine

Kofi Annan (opening speaker, via TV link)
Inger Andersen, Vice President for Sustainable Development, World Bank
Nikolai Dronin, Moscow State University
Andriy Klyuev, First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine
Joschka Fischer, Adviser, Nabucco Project


17:00 — 17:30 How to Overcome the Crisis and Build Sustainable Economies (TV Link)

Larry Summers, Director, National Economic Council of the United States


20:00 — 20:45 Speech: The United States and the Global Shifts of the 21st Century

William J. Clinton, 42nd President of the United States


Saturday, October 2
09:00 — 10:00 The Global Economy and Ukraine

Mykola Azarov, Prime Minister of Ukraine
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund


10:30 — 11:15 Building High-Tech Economies — an Eastern Silicon Valley and Wall Street?

Viktor Vekselberg, Chairman, Renova Group; Coordinator, International Innovation Center “Skolkovo”
Alexander Voloshin, Head of the Working Group on Creating an International Financial Center in the Russian Federation


11:15 — 12:00 Modernising Ukraine — From Strategy to Implementation

Borys Kolesnikov, Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine
Vladislav Kaskiv, Head of Working Group for National Projects, Committee on Economic Reforms
Kirill Dmitriev, President, ICON Private Equity


12:00 — 13:00 Ukraine: Should it Move East And/Or West?

Elmar Brok, MEP, Foreign Policy Spokesman of the EPP in the European Parliament
Sergei Glaziev, Secretary General, EurAsEc Customs Union Commission
Leonid Kuchma, President of Ukraine (1994-2005)
Marek Siwiec, MEP, Member of the Board of YES


14:30 — 15:30 The Energy Challenge

Yuri Boyko, Minister for Fuel and Energy of Ukraine
Leonid Grigoriev, President, Institute for Energy and Finance, Moscow
Alan Riley, Professor, City University of London


15:30 — 16:30 Paths to Ukraine’s Future — What Change Do We Need?

Carl Bild, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden
Volodymyr Lytvyn, Speaker of the Parliament of Ukraine
Serhiy Tyhypko, Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine
Arsenyi Yatseniuk, MP, Leader of “Front of Change”


16:30 — 17:00 Concluding Session

Aleksander Kwasniewski, President of Poland (1995-2005), Chairman of the Board of YES

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Komorowski: European Union Must Have Will and Wish for Further Enlargement
01.10.2010



Despite today’s crisis, European Union should not stop the enlargement process and shut down the European integration prospects for Ukraine. Delivering his speech at the 7th YES Annual Meeting, Bronislaw Komorowski, President of Poland, said:

“We cannot accept the idea that Europe has got tired, that it should not proceed with enlargement, that it is better to take time, to wait, and to conduct one more round of negotiations. Sometimes it is an attempt at making an excuse. Two processes should go parallel with each other. On the one hand, it concerns EU modernization, restoration of the power and ability for enlargement. On the other hand, the countries willing to become EU members should accomplish and achieve the standards required for being an EU member” – the President Komorowski highlighted.

Bronislaw Komorowski also mentioned that Poland’s way to the EU had not been easy either. “We overcame the experience of adapting Poland in line with the European standards. It took more than a decade. Sometimes it was pretty difficult to explain the necessity of this process to the population. Nevertheless, the efforts gave positive results. They were of much benefit to everyone. The acceptance of EU rules helped up stay on top and keep developing during the global crisis”. That is why, according the President of Poland, Ukraine should be “brave enough to continue the European integration process”. In his opinion, Ukraine should go to Europe more actively and rapidly, supporting its European efforts with reforms.

“Time runs extremely fast, and a lot of time was spent on preliminary proclamations. Now we need to speed up. Gone is the time for words. Today is the time for actions, work and accomplishments. It is the time not only for speaking and wishing, but also for showing the achievements”, - Bronislaw Komorowski stated.

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