Dialogue of the Seas No.3, 2011
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Eurasian Union: A takeoff to the future No. 3, 2011 Olzhas Suleimenov: Acknowledging the interdependence What hinders business Klichko brothers, development Ukraine’s brand in the Black Sea – Caspian Sea The mystery region of the lost papyrus 2011: THE INTERNATIONAL FUND OF THE BLACK AND CASPIAN SEAS IS GAINING MOMENTUM The way Romanians paint INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION PHOTO: ARCHIVES EU Strategy for Danube and the Interview with the Vice-President and Secretary- Convention on the Protection of the General of BSCSIF, Eldar HASANOV Marine Environment of the Caspian Sea. This means that the participa- tion in environmental projects will be more dynamic, along with the efforts to strengthen the economical cooperation among the countries in KEEP the region. We also plan to hold a series of in- ternational conferences, symposia, with the participation of remarkable BUILDING personalities, on such pressing topics as civil society, environmental prob- lems, the role of the press, religious BRIDGES tolerance. How do you establish the relations Mr. Vice-President, how was the is the establishment of the Com- This year, another country, the between the Fund, the European outgoing year of 2011 significant mission for Innovations and In- 11th, joined the statutory goals and Union and other international or- for the activity of the International vestments, whose role is to find, objectives of the Fund: it is Repub- ganizations? Fund for Cooperation and Partner- analyze and promote new projects. lic of Serbia, represented by the We acknowledge thoroughly the ship of the Black and the Caspian The Chairman of the Commission well-known professor and diplomat importance of our Fund in the Black Sea? is Mikhail Zernov, director of our Darko Tanaskovic. Bearing in mind Sea-Caspian Sea region; that is why To the Fund, 2011 was a year of Moscow branch, and I hope that the that the Fund plays an important the members of the Board of Direc- achievements. During this time, the commission will have a successful role as a bridge between the Balkans tors decided to open a branch in organization was able to implement activity. and Central Asia, it is crucial for it Brussels. This particular BSCSIF several important projects. Our team It’s worth mentioning that at this to develop further and not to stop office is a link between the EU and Mof young experts has carried out year’s Black Sea Forum of NGOs, at the already achieved. This is why other international organizations three projects financed by the Eu- BSCSIF entered the top five. Bear- the Board of Directors is planning and countries of our region. Our ropean Commission within “Youth ing in mind that the Turkish NGO, to consider for the next year the ac- whole activity is based on the princi- in Action” program, such as “Toler- awarded with the first place, has ceptance of other countries as full ples of international law. We have a The International Fund ance, religion and cultural diversity”, already 10 years of experience in this members to BSCSIF. And here I am tight collaboration with the Econom- for Cooperation and “Romania – Turkey: Partnership for area, I am sure that, over time, we referring to Bosnia and Herzegovina, ic and Social Committee of the EU, democracy”, “Side by Side for the will be the most influential organiza- Montenegro, Belarus, Turkmenistan. European Policy Center, German Partnership of the Black Black Sea”. Also, in July, the Fund tion in the region. We are aware of the fact that today Marshall Fund, Virginia Polytechnic Sea and the Caspian implemented a monitoring project You know, all our activity is based on we are one of the most influential Institute and State University (USA), in Azerbaijan, entitled “The role of the execution of statutory goals and international organizations in the re- with whom we have signed coopera- Sea (BSCSIF) offers civil society in the modern countries objectives of the Fund, in this way we gion, but for our future development tion agreements, as well as collabora- congratulations on the of the region”. We plan to carry out support the effective efforts of the UN, and for the realization of statutory tion with other influential national similar monitoring in other coun- OSCE, Council of Europe, European goals and objectives of the Fund, we and international organizations. We coming winter holidays. tries of the Black Sea-Caspian Sea Commission, BSEC and other impor- need to connect all the countries in strive to build good relations with We hope the new year of region, in the next year. tant international organizations. It is the Black Sea and Caspian Sea region both public and non-governmental The year was also productive because very important for each member of to the active cooperation. organizations. 2012 will bring peace to we published the first three issues the Board of Directors and the Fund To close, on the occasion of winter the whole world, prosperity of the “Dialogue of the Seas” maga- itself to make a direct contribution What other plans does the Fund holidays, I would like to congratulate zine, where readers can find many towards achieving peace, climate have for the coming year of cordially all of those who believed in and welfare to all people interesting and relevant information of trust and friendship between the 2012? What new directions and our potential and supported us, all and will strengthen the about the countries of our region, countries and nations of the region. projects will BSCSIF develop in the the people living in the Black Sea- questions and answers to the most near future? Caspian Sea region, all the readers of cooperation and dialogue pressing topics of the moment, as Please tell us more about the new For BSCSIF, 2012 will be a year of “Dialogue of the Seas” magazine and across the seas, a challenge well as topics of public concern, such members of the Fund. Will there be a more dynamic development. And wish them, first and foremost - peace, Happy New in which we promise to play as energy security in the region, eco- any further expansion, as in, new here I refer to both expansion and harmony, dialogue, trust and coopera- nomic cooperation. countries joining it? What countries implementation of new projects tion, as well as health, happiness, suc- Year 2012! a significant role. INTRODUCTION Another achievement of the Fund might those be? within the Eastern Partnership, the cess, prosperity and welfare. 2 3 CONTENTS COMMENT PHOTO: ARCHIVES COMMENT EURASIAN UNION: WRITING THE FUTURE / 5 EVENTSAND PEOPLE EURASIAN UNION: SEARCHING FOR A COMMON VISION / 6 No. 3, 2011 THECOUNTRIES OF THE REGION ____________________________________________________________ WRITING THE FUTURE In this section we will present to our readers another EDITORIAL BOARD country, member of the Black Sea Caspian Sea The Presidents of Russia, Belarus and the one of Belarus. International Fund Mahir N.Quarayev, Azerbaijan Kazakhstan: Dmitry Medvedev, Al- As specified by the Russian me- UKraine Tamaz Beradze, exander Lukashenko and Nursultan dia - the new economical bloc will “ EUROPEAN ELDORADO” / 10 Prof., Deputy Editor, Georgia Nazarbayev signed the first official not pursue political goals. Maksim Murat Auezov, Kazakhstan documents on the establishment of Grigoriev, Director of the Moscow EVENTSAND PEOPLE Bayan Sarigulov, Kyrgyzstan TEurasian Economic Union (EEC). Foundation for Research of Issues of ITAULIAN FO : NATIONAL SECURITY IN A WORLD Mikhail Sinelnikov, Russia The idea that has been circulating Democracy, said to “Nezavisimaya OF GLOBALIZATION / 14 Corneliu Vlad, Deputy Editor, Romania for over 15 years will become reality Gazeta” that the Eurasian Union “is Çağrı Erhan, Prof. Dr., Turkey within the next 3-4 years. not a political tool used for solving INTERVIEW “The future belongs to Eura- some political problems of the par- OLZHAS Suleimenov: ACKNOWLEDGING Editor-in-Chief: Vyacheslav Samoshkin sia”, - claimed the Prime-Minister ticipating countries. Starting from THE OVERALL INTERDEPENDENCE / 15 English version: Olga Condratiuc Vladimir Putin in an article pub- economy integration, the countries Art Director: Dan Mihalache lished in “Izvestia”, in the month of are merely moving towards maxi- ____________________________________________________________ IDEASAND REOPLE October, when he announced the mum mutual benefit”. The Eurasian WHAT HINDERS The Magazine is being published establishment of Eurasian Union. Union concludes a long, not without by the International Fund For Cooperation The base for the Common Economic fluctuations, but gradual process of BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Corneliu VLAD, IN THE REGION? / and Partnership of the Black Sea Space is the current Customs Union political scientist and journalist economic integration on the post- 18 and the Caspian Sea of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, Soviet space, and the Russian and which expects new members, like association, capable of becoming foreign observers rate this project REGIONALNEWS / 25 President: Viktor Khmarin Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan and may- one of the poles of the modern as the most viable in its category Secretary General and Vice-President: be some other states, further. world and having a practical role”. out of those submitted for the last BSCSIFCHRONICLE Eldar Hasanov The Common Economic Space, This union, he added, will represent 20 years. However, the academician THE FUND OF TWO SEAS IS GAINING MOMENTUM / 26 Economic and Financial Affairs as in, EEC’s basis, will be operation- “a bridge between Europe and the Yevgeny Primakov pointed out that Counsellor: