Spanish-Ukrainian Strategic Dialog: Ukraine, the EU and NATO
Madrid, 5 november, 2008
PROGRAM
9:30 – 10:00 Welcome and opening remarks
– José Lladó, Ambassador of Spain. President of INCIPE
– Valeriy Chalyi, Deputy Director General, International Programmes Director, Razumkov Centre
– Anatoliy Scherba, Ambassador of Ukraine in Spain
10:00 – 10:15 Coffee Break
10:15 – 11:45 Panel I:“Ukraine on the road to European integration: achievements, problems and prospects”
Chairman: Ramón de Miguel, former Secretary of State for European Affairs. Member of the INCIPE’s Board
– Kostyantyn Yeliseyev, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. Head of the Ukrainian Delegation at the negotiations with the EU on the new Enhanced Agreement
– José Rodríguez Moyano, Deputy Director General for Eastern Europe, Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation
– José Luis González Vallvé, Director of the Spanish Representation of the European Commission in Madrid
11:45 – 12:00 Coffee Break
12:00 – 13:30 Panel II:“Ukraine and NATO Membership”
Chairman: Valeriy Chalyi, Deputy Director General, International Programmes Director, Razumkov Centre
– Vice-Admiral Enrique Pérez Ramírez, Deputy General Director for Planning and International Relations, Spanish Ministry of Defence
– Borys Tarasyuk, Chairman of the Committee on European Integration at the Ukrainian Verhovna Rada (Parliament)
– Stefanova Radoslava, Officer, Russia and Ukraine Relations Section, Political
Affairs and Security Policy Division, NATO HQ, Brussels
13:30 – 14:00 Closing session and final remarks
Chairman: Vicente Garrido, Director of INCIPE
– Diego López Garrido, Secretary of State for the EU, Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation
– Kostyantyn Yeliseyev, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. Head of
the Ukrainian Delegation at the negotiations with the EU on the new Enhanced Agreement