BRAMA, Sep 26, 2003, 9:00 am ET
Press Release
Conference to Address Impact of CES Protocol on Ukraine's WTO, EU and NATO Aspirations
"Ukraine's Quest for Mature Nation Statehood - Roundtable IV:
Ukraine's Transition to a Developed Market Economy,"
Second Day Working Lunch:
'Can Ukrainian-Russian Economic Ties Move Beyond a Metropole-Province Relationship?'
Washington, DC — On Friday, September 19, 2003, the presidents of Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan signed an agreement on the formation of the Common Economic Space (CES). In order for Ukraine to join, the agreement requires ratification by at least two-thirds of Ukrainian members of parliament(300 votes).
Experts from Ukraine, the United States, Russia and Poland will discuss the impact of the CES Protocol on Ukraine's WTO, EU and NATO aspirations, during a conference in Washington, D.C., on October 7 and 8.
Valery Khoroshkovsky Ukrainian Minister of Economy, Vyacheslav Igrunov, Deputy Head of the Russian Duma CIS Affairs Committee, Ilan Berman, Vice President for Policy, American Foreign Policy Council, and Adrian Karatnycky, Senior Scholar and Counselor, Freedom House have been invited to focus on the issue during a working lunch on Wednesday, October 8 at 12:30 PM. Ariel Cohen, Research Fellow, Heritage Foundation will chair this session.
Ukraine's Quest for Mature Nation Statehood - Roundtable IV: Ukraine's Transition to a Developed Market Economy will feature twelve panels, held during the course of four regular sessions, four focus sessions, two working lunches, three receptions and nine business-to-business networking sessions.
Prime Minister of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovich, U.S. Undersecretary of State Paula Dobriansky, Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine Ihor Kharchenko, Deputy Foreign Minister of Poland Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Assistant U.S. Chief Trade Representative Catherine Novelli, former Prime Minister of Ukraine Anatoliy Kinakh, former Deputy Prime Minister of Poland Janusz Steinhof, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Europe and Eurasia Nancy Lee, and members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada, The President's Administration of Ukraine, the Office of the U.S. Chief Trade Representative and the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine, will participate in the conference. In total, more than 150 speakers have been invited.
Contacts:
Stephen Bandera - tel: (212) 982-5042, fax: (212) 473-0188, sbandera@fourfreedoms.net
Tamara Gallo - tel: (212) 228-6840, fax: (212) 254-4721, ucca@ucca.org
Additional information and on-line registration is available at www.fourfreedoms.net.
— Stephen Bandera
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