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PROGRAMME
Direct
Neighbourhood – EU's Ostpolitik after enlargement
St.
Petersburg, 16-17 March 2000
conference organised in co-operation with:
BERTELSMANN GROUP FOR POLICY RESEARCH, Muenich;
HAMBURG CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, St. Petersburg
EUROPEAN ACADEMY FOR CIVIL SOCIETY PROBLEMS, Moscow
As per: 21 March, 2000
Sheraton
Nevskij Palace Hotel
“St. Petersburg“ conference hall
Nevskij Prospect, 57
St. Petersburg 191025
Russia
phone: **7-812-275-2001
fax: **7-812-301-7323
conference
languages: German, English, Russian
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Thursday,
March 16, 2000
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04.00
p. m.
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Welcome
Cornelius Ochmann
Director Central and Eastern Europe, Bertelsmann
Foundation, Guetersloh
Gennadij
Tkachev
Vice-Governor, St. Petersburg
Stephan
Stein
Head, Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, St. Petersburg
Tatyana
Yarygina
Member of the State Duma of the Russian Federation;
Chairwoman of the Interparliamentary Group;
President of the European Academy for Civil
Society Problems, Moscow
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04.30
p. m.
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Direct
Neighbourhood as a component of European Security
Dr.
Iris Kempe
Senior Analyst, Bertelsmann Group for Policy
Research,
Center for Applied Policy Research, Munich
Prof.
Dr. Alexey Arbatov
Member of the State Duma of the Russian Federation;
Deputy Chairman of the Defence Committee,
Moscow
Prof. Evgen Bersheda
Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine, Kiev
Andrzej
Ananicz
Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of the Republic of Poland, Warsaw
Dr.
Franz-Lothar Altmann
Executive Member of the Board, German Society
for Eastern European Studies; Deputy Director,
Southeast Institute, Berlin/Munich
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06.00
p. m.
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Discussion
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08.30
p. m.
Prince
Kochubey’s palace
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Russia
and Europe in the 21st century
Prof.
Dr. Vladimir P. Lukin
Member of the State Duma of the Russian Federation;
Deputy Spokesman of the State Duma of the
Russian Federation, Moscow
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Friday,
March 17, 2000
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09.30
a. m.
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Russia
and its relations with the Baltic States in
context with the EU's eastern enlargement
Chair:
Prof.
Dr. Shlomo Avineri
Director, Institute for European Studies,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; former
Director-General of the Israeli Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem
Igor
Y. Yurgenz
Council for Foreign Policy and Security of
the Russian Federation, Moscow
Hendrik
Hololei
Director, Office of European Integration,
State Chancellery of the Republic of Estonia,
Tallinn
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11.00
a. m.
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Discussion
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02.30
p. m.
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Regional
and multilateral initiatives
Chair:
Stephan Stein
Head, Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, St. Petersburg
Prof. Dr. Danuta Huebner Deputy Executive
Secretary, UN Economic Commission for Europe,
Geneva
Conrad Tribble
Coordinator of the Northern European Initiative,
US Department of State, Washington, D.C.
Rene
Nyberg
Ambassador, Head of Division for Eastern Affairs,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic
of Finland, Helsinki
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05.00
p. m.
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Final
discussion: Political policy recommendations
Chair:
Cornelius Ochmann
Director Central and Eastern Europe, Bertelsmann
Foundation, Guetersloh
Dr. Lev Klepatsky
Deputy Director, Foreign Policy Planning Staff,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian
Federation, Moscow
Stanislaw Ciosek
Ambassador, Foreign Policy Advisor to the
President of the Republic of Poland, Warsaw
Helmut Steine
l Head, Policy Planning External Relations,
European Commission, Brussels
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06.00
p. m.
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Discussion
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