The
new dimension of the Rusia-EU and Nato Relations
Madrid, monday 24 November 2003
The Seminar took place ón 24th of November
in Madrid (Assembly Hall, Arapiles 14). There were some
seventy participants, mostly diplomats, military, officials
from the Ministry of Foreign Affaires and Defence, journalists,
academicians and managers
.
The seminar was organized by INCIPE with the
support of the Spanish Institute for Strategic Studies (IEEE)
from the Defence Ministry, the Public Diplomacy División
of NATO and the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Spain,
that offered a receptión to the participants in the
seminar, the same day.
The main goal of the Seminar was to create an
useful framework for reflectión ón the Russian
role in the New International World Order and, especially,
to evaluate the current situatión and perspective
of the Russia, the EU and NATO relations.
The Ambassador of the Russian Federatión
to Spain, Mr. Mikhail Kamynin, gave an address at the Working
-Lunch offered by INCIPE. He stressed the European character
of Russia: "We donÕt imagine ourselves outside
of Europe."
The Assistant to the President of the Russian
Federation, Mr. Sergei Yastrzhembsky, pointed out: "Russia
has been and will be a European country. Our Strategic and
economics interests lie in the region. Russians are linked
with their European neighbours by a multitude of historical,
economics and cultural ties."
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PROGRAM
9:30 - 10:00 Seminar Inauguration
- José Lladó, Ambassador of Spain. President
of INCIPE.
- Mikhail L. Kamynin, Ambassador of the Russian Federatión
to Spain.
- Javier Jiménez-Ugarte, Secretary General of Defence
Policy, Ministry of Defence.
- Ramón de Miguel, State Secretary for European affaire,
Foreign Affaire Ministry.
10:00 - 10:15 Coffee-Break
10:15 - 11:30 Conference: "Russia
as an internacional actor"
- Sergei Yastrzhembsky, Assistant to the President of the
Russian Federation.
- Juan Prat y Coll, Ambassador-Permanent Representative
to the NOTO Council.
11:30 - 12:00 Coffee-Break
12:00 - 13:45 Panel I: "Russia and/in
the European Union"
- Jaime Valdivielso de Cue, Member of the European Parliament
and of the Delegatión of the EU-Russia Parliamentary
Cooperatión Committee.
- Vladimir Sereguin, Head of the EU Division, Foreign Affaire
Ministry, Russian Federatión .
- Carmen Claudín, Head of the Eastern Europe and
NEI Area. Assistant Director, Fundació CIDOB.
- Dov Lynch, Research Felaw, Institute for Security Studies
of the European Union.
Chairman: Luis Solana, President of Graminsa. Member of
INCIPE Borrad of Trustees.
16:00 - 17:45 Panel II: "Russian NATO
relations"
- Andrey Kevin, Deputy General Director for Paneuropean
Cooperation Foreign Affaire Ministry, Russian Federation.
- Paul Frich, Head Russia and Ukraine Section, PoliticalE
Affaire and Security Division, NATO.
- General (Div.) Félix Sanz Roldán, Deputy
Director, General Directorate for Defence Policy, Ministry
of Defence.
- Rafael Calduch, Head of Internacional Relations and Director
of the Complutense Institute for Internacional Estudies
(ICEI).
Chairman: Darío Valcárcel, General Secretary
of INCIPE. Director of the journal Política Exterior.
17:45 - 18:15 Coffee-Break.
18:15 - 19:30 Conference: "The Political
and Security Dialogue betwwn Russia and the UE"
- Gustavo de Aristegui, Member of the the Spanish Parliament
(Partido Popular) and Spokesman of the Congrees of Deputies
Foreign Affaire Commission.
- Rafael Estrella Pedrosa, Member of the Spanish Parliament
(PSOE - Partido Socialista Obrero Español) and Co-President
or the Joint Monitoring Group ón NATO-Russia Relations.
Chairman: Fernando Carbajo Ferrero, Director of the European
Parliament Office in Spain.
19:30 Closing sessión
- Vicente Garrido Rebolledo, Director of INCIPE.
- José María Robles Fraga, Ambassador of Spain
to the Russian Federation.
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