British Embassy, Chisinau ACHIEVING A TRANSNISTRIAN SETTLEMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF MOLDOVA’S EUROPEANISATION Second Annual International Conference (26-27 March 2008) Conference Venue: Leo Grand Convention Center, Chisinau Conference Languages: English, Romanian, Russian Wednesday, 26 March 08:30 - 09:00 Registration of participants 09:00 – 09:10 WELCOMING REMARKS John Beyer, British Ambassador to Moldova Ion Sturza, President, Foreign Policy Association of Moldova (APE) 09:10 – 09:25 OPENING ADDRESS Kalman Mizsei, EU Special Representative for Moldova 09:25 – 09:45 KEY NOTE SPEECH Vladimir Voronin, President of the Republic of Moldova (subject to confirmation) 09:45 – 10:15 Coffee break 10:15 – 11:30 SESSION 1 CURRENT STATE OF PLAY AND PROSPECTS OF THE TRANSNISTRIAN SETTLEMENT Moderator: Andrei Popov, Executive Director, Foreign Policy Association (APE) Panelists: Ion Stavila, Deputy Minister of Reintegration of Moldova Andrei Safonov, Editor-in-Chief, Novaya Gazeta, Bendery Claus Neukirch, Deputy Head of the OSCE Mission in Moldova Oazu Nantoi, Program Director, Public Policy Institute 11:30 – 11:45 Coffee break 11:45 – 13:00 SESSION 2 WAYS OF ACHIEVING A VIABLE SETTLEMENT Moderator: Viorel Cibotaru, Director, European Institute for Political Studies in Moldova Panelists: Victor Tkaciuk, Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine Konstantin Zatulin, First Deputy Chairman of the Committee for CIS affairs and relations with the compatriots of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Michael Kirby, US Ambassador to Moldova Kalman Mizsei, EU Special Representative for Moldova Representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of the Republic of Moldova (tbd) 13:00 – 14:30 Lunch 14:30 – 16:00 SESSION 3 IS A VIABLE SETTLEMENT POSSIBLE IN 2008? Moderator: Sorin Mereacre, Country Director, Eurasia Foundation Moldova Panelists: Andrei Popov, Executive Director, Foreign Policy Association (APE) Serghei Shirokov, Director, Bureau of Political Studies “Mediator”, Tiraspol Tamara Guzenkova, Senior Fellow Researcher, Russia’s Institute for Strategic Studies Vladimir Socor, Senior Fellow, Jamestown Foundation Grygoriy Perepelitsa, Director, Foreign Policy Research Institute, Ukraine 16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break 16:30 – 18:00 SESSION 4 MOVING THE PROCESS OFF DEAD CENTER: VIEWS FROM THE REGION Moderators: John Mitchell, Deputy Head, British Embassy, Chisinau Eugen Revenco, Programs Director, Foreign Policy Association (APE) Panelists: Participants in the “Transnistrian Dialogues” 2007/2008 programme about factors hindering the progress in the settlement process, people’s expectations and concerns about the settlement and what can be done to move the process off dead center 18:00 Reception hosted by H.E. Mr. John Beyer, British Ambassador to Moldova Thursday, 27 March 09:00 – 09:10 OPENNING REMARKS John Beyer, British Ambassador to Moldova Cesare de Montis, Head of the Delegation of the European Commission to Moldova 09:10- 09:25 OPENNING ADDRESS Žygimantas Pavilionis, Undersecretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania 09:25 – 09:45 KEY NOTE SPEECH Marian Lupu, Speaker of the Parliament of Moldova 09:45 – 10:15 Coffee Break 10:15 – 11:45 SESSION 5 ADVANCING EUROPEAN ASPIRATIONS OF MOLDOVA: CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS Moderator: Amb. Pierre Andrieu, French Ambassador to Moldova Panelists: Cesare de Montis, Head of the Delegation of the European Commission to Moldova Marianne Mikko, MEP, Co-Chair of the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Co-operation Committee Raduta Matache, Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania Igor Botan, Executive Director, Association for Participative Democracy (ADEPT) 11:45– 12:15 Coffee Break 12:15 – 13:30 SESSION 6 LOOKING BEYOND 2008: EUROPEANISATION OF MOLDOVA AS A NEW CONTEXT FOR CONFLICT SETTLEMENT Moderator: Victor Chirila, Programs Director, Foreign Policy Association of Moldova (APE) Panelists: Andrew Wilson, Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations, London Anneli Ute Gabanyi, Political Analyst, former Associate Researcher at the German Institute for International Affairs, Berlin Iulian Chifu, Director, Conflict Prevention and Early Warning Center, Romania Gottfried Hanne, ex-Deputy Head of the OSCE Mission in Moldova Arcadie Barbarosie, Director, Public Policy Institute (IPP), Moldova 13:30 – 13:45 CONCLUDING REMARKS 13:45 – 14:45 Cocktail .