PROGRAMME

MOLDOVA: MOVING AHEAD

Thursday 16 – Saturday 18 October 2008 949th WILTON PARK CONFERENCE to inform decision making on ’s future with support from the Foreign Ministry of Lithuania, the British Embassy Chisinau, the Department for International Development and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

THURSDAY 16 OCTOBER

1500 Welcome to Wilton Park and the conference Adela GOOCH Director, Key States Programme, Wilton Park

1515-1630 1 MOLDOVA: THE WAY FORWARD Anthony SMITH Director, Europe and Donor Relations, Department for International Development, London

Žygimantas PAVILIONIS Undersecretary, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vilnius

Grigore PETRENCO Chairman, Foreign Relations Committee, Parliament of Moldova, Chisinau

1630-1715 Tea and Photograph

1715-1845 2 THE ECONOMY: DIRECTING GROWTH, HARNESSING BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY Natalia CATRINESCU Head of Policy and Aid Coordination Department, Government Office, Republic of Moldova, Chisinau

Olivier DESCAMPS Business Group Director for Southern, Eastern Europe and the Caucasus, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, London

Iuri GANIN Vice-President, Transnistrian Chamber of Commerce and Trade, Tiraspol

2000 Dinner

FRIDAY 17 OCTOBER

0915-1045 3 RELATIONS WITH THE : WHAT NEXT? HOW NEXT? Hilde HARDEMAN Head, Unit for Relations with , Moldova and Belarus, European Commission, Brussels

Valeriu OSTALEP Deputy Foreign Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Integration, Chisinau Hans-Dieter LUCAS Regional Director for Eastern Europe, Federal Foreign Ministry, Berlin

Marianne MIKKO MEP, Chairman of EU-Moldova Parliamentary Co-operation Committee, European Parliament, Brussels

1045-1115 Coffee 1115-1245 4 MOLDOVA AND ITS NEIGHBOURS: REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES AND THE INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION Răduţa MATACHE State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bucharest

Vladimir ZHARIKHIN Deputy Director, CIS Institute, Moscow

Serhii PYROZHKOV Ambassador of Ukraine to Moldova, Chisinau

David MERKEL Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, European and Eurasian Affairs, Department of State, Washington D.C

1300 Lunch

1530-1730 5 : AN OBSTACLE TO PROGRESS? Chair: Philip REMLER Head of Mission to Moldova, OSCE, Chisinau

Valeriy NESTERUSHKIN Special Representative of the Russian Federation for the Transnistria settlement process, Moscow

Vasilii ŞOVA Minister, Ministry of Reintegration, Chisinau

Yevgeny SHEVCHUK Speaker of the Supreme Soviet, Transnistria, Tiraspol

Pirkka TAPIOLA Senior Adviser Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova, Policy Unit of HR Solana, Council of the European Union, Brussels

1730 Tea

1830 Moldovan wine tasting reception

1930 Conference Dinner hosted by: Donald LAMONT Chief Executive, Wilton Park

SATURDAY 18 OCTOBER

0915-1045 6 TOWARDS GOOD GOVERNANCE: SOCIAL AND CIVIL DEVELOPMENT Chair: John BEYER Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Moldova, Chisinau

Igor BOTAN Director, Adept, Chisinau

Andrei SAFONOV Director, Human Rights Centre, Bendery Mihail FORMUZAL Bashkan, Gagauz Autonomous Territorial Unit

1045-1115 Coffee

1115-1245 7 MOVING AHEAD: HOW TO MAKE IT HAPPEN Tim BARROW UK Representative, Political and Security Committee, Brussels

Kálmán MIZSEI EU Special Representative for Moldova, Brussels

Sergey MARKEDONOV Head, Interethnic Relations Department, Institute of Political and Military Analysis, Moscow

Kęstutis JANKAUSKAS Ambassador at Large, Representation of Lithuania to the EU, Brussels

Natalia SOLCAN Ambassador of the Republic of Moldova to the United Kingdom, London

1300 Lunch

1430 Participants Leave