UKRAINE-NATO INTERPARLIAMENTARY COUNCIL (UNIC)

SUB-COMMITTEE ON NATO

PARTNERSHIPS (PCNP)

OFFICERS OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE CIVIL DIMENSION OF SECURITY (CDS)

DRAFT PROGRAMME

LVIV, UKRAINE

24-25 June 2019

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23 JUNE 2019 LVIV, UKRAINE

Arrival of participants in Lviv Airport transfers organised by the Ukrainian delegation

Accommodation GRAND HOTEL LVIV 13, Svobody avenue Lviv, Ukraine

17:00 Participants meet at the lobby of the Grand Hotel Lviv

17:00-18:50 Tour of the Old Town of Lviv

18:50 Participants return to the Hotel

19:00-21:00 Welcome dinner hosted by Oksana YURYNETS, Head of the Ukrainian Delegation to the NATO PA Venue: Grand Hotel Lviv

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Meeting venue: Lviv Polytechnic National University

8:40 Departure by bus

Moderator: Oksana YURYNETS, Head of the Ukrainian Delegation to the NATO PA

9:00 - 9:10 Welcome remarks by Andriy PARUBIY, Speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament

9:10 – 9:20 Introductory remarks by Madeleine MOON, President of the NATO PA and Iryna GERASHCHENKO, Co-chairperson of the Ukraine-NATO Interparliamentary Council (UNIC), Deputy Speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament

9:20 – 10:00 Meeting with Ivanna KLYMPUSH-TSINTSADZE, Vice-Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine on The Situation in Ukraine after the Presidential Election and Euro-Atlantic Integration

10:00 – 10:15 Coffee break (Press conference for the Co-Chairpersons of the UNIC and the Head of the Ukrainian Delegation)

Moderator: Madeleine MOON, President of the NATO PA

10:15 – 11:15 Discussion on Ukraine’s Defence Reform, Annual National Programme and Cooperation with NATO

Stepan POLTORAK, Minister of Defence of Ukraine

Alexander VINNIKOV, Head, NATO Representation to Ukraine

11:15 – 11:45 Discussion on Implementation of Ukraine’s Law on National Security

Andriy LEVUS, Member of the Ukrainian Parliament

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Andrew CUTHBERT, Adviser on Parliamentary Affairs, NATO Representation to Ukraine

12:00 – 13:15 Working buffet lunch hosted by Yuriy BOBALO, Rector of Lviv Polytechnic National University with Faculty Staff and Students

Moderator: Iryna GERASHCHENKO, Co-chairperson of the Ukraine-NATO Interparliamentary Council, Deputy Speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament

13:15 – 14:15 Discussion on The Humanitarian and Security Situation in the East of Ukraine

Iryna FRIZ, Minister for Veterans affairs of Ukraine

Antje GRAWE, Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine

14:15 – 15:15 Discussion on Ukraine’s Reform Agenda: Achievement and Challenges

Mykhailo GONCHAR, President of the Centre for Global Studies "Strategy XXI”

H. E. Mr Roman WASCHUK, Ambassador of Canada to Ukraine (NATO Contact Point Embassy) (tbc)

15:15 – 15:30 Coffee break

Moderator: NATO PA, name tbc

15:30–16:30 Discussion on Information Warfare, Strategic Communications, and Public Diplomacy Challenges

Adjunct Professor Yaryna KLIUCHKOVSKA, Lviv Business School, Strategic Communication Consultant; Member of the board, Center for Economic Strategy

Barbora MARONKOVA, Director, NATO Information and Documentation Centre

Moderator: Hanna HOPKO, Chairperson of the Committee on Foreign Affairs

16:30 – 18:00 Discussion on Elections in Ukraine: Implications for Domestic and Foreign Policies

Roman VOVK, Deputy Director, International Security and Partnership Centre, Lviv

Dr. Yaryna TURCHYN, Director, Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Head of Research and Analytical Center “Vector”

Serhij RIZNYK, Associate Professor of the Constitutional Law Department, Ivan Franko National University, Head of NGO “Center for Constitutional Initiatives

Dr. Markiyan MALSKYI, Dean, Faculty of International Relations, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv

18:00 Concluding remarks

18:10 Departure to the Hotel

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18:20 Arrival to the hotel

18:45 Departure from the hotel to the restaurant “Svyatoslav”

19:30 – 21:30 Dinner hosted by Lviv Regional Council Venue: Restaurant “Svyatoslav” (Dress code – “Vyshyvanka”/Ukrainian shirt, provided by the Ukrainian delegation)

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8:00 Meet in hotel lobby and depart by bus to the Hetman Petro Sahaidachnyi National Ground Forces Academy

8:15 Arrival to the Academy and welcome (group photo)

8:30 – 9:00 Visit of the Museum of the Academy’s history

9:00 – 9:25 Commemoration of the Academy’s graduates who lost their lives in the East of Ukraine (wreath-laying ceremony)

9:25 – 9:30 Bus departs the Academy for Yavoriv International Peacekeeping and Security Centre (IPSC)

10:30 Arrival to the IPSC (coffee/tea/refreshments)

10:50-10:55 Welcome by Lt. General Pavlo TKACHUK, Commander, Hetman Petro Sahaidachnyi National Ground Forces Academy followed by a film about the Academy

11:10 – 11:35 Presentation by Colonel Ihor SLISARCHUK, Chief of the IPSC

11:35-12:15 Visit to the IPSC

12:35 – 13:00 Lunch hosted by the IPSC with attendance of the instructors from the JMTG-U (Joint Multinational Training Group – Ukraine)

13:00 Departure to Lviv

14:00 Arrival in Lviv

End of programme

Individual departure of participants

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