PROGRAMME
MOLDOVA: MOVING AHEAD
Thursday 16 – Saturday 18 October 2008 949th WILTON PARK CONFERENCE to inform decision making on Moldova’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 EUROPEAN UNION: WHAT NEXT? HOW NEXT? Hilde HARDEMAN Head, Unit for Relations with Ukraine, 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 TRANSNISTRIA: 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