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Seminar: The Ukrainian Security Environment after NATO Enlargement

IISS Ukraine and European Security Programme

18 December 1997

The seminar was co-sponsored by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office and as a complement to Harvard University's Ukrainian National Security Program. Participants discussed two main topics: Ukrainian security-policy tasks and prospects for developing closer cooperation between Ukraine and NATO. The discussion outlined the main principles of Ukraine's national-security concept, Western attitudes towards Ukraine's role in European security; and the progress made by Ukraine's participation in NATO's Partnership for Peace programme and the importance of this. Participants emphasised the need for Kiev to establish economic sustainability as a precondition for genuine independence as well as the need to work more closely with European institutions.   Agenda 10:15-10:30 Introduction by John Chipman/Terry Taylor about the IISS and its FSU Programs 10:30-12:00 Session 1: Ukrainian Security Policies: new tasks and challenges Speaker: Alexander Belov, Director of the National Institute for Strategic Studies   National Security of Ukraine: concepts and mechanisms of its implementation   James Sherr, Fellow Ministry of Defence (Conflict Studies Research Centre) Discussion 13:30-15:00 Session 2: Prospects for enhancing Ukraine-NATO relations Speaker: Major-General Ivan Rusnak, Deputy Chief of General Staff on issues of Science, Chief of Military-Scientific Department of General Staff of Ukrainian Armed Forces, Doctor of Military Science   Ukraine-NATO relations in the Partnership for Peace Framework   William Hopkinson, Head of International Security Program, RIIA   Participants Belov Alexander Fiodorovich, Director of National Institute for Strategic Studies Belov Volodimir Petrovich, National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine Colonel Gontar Volodimir Andreiovich, Deputy Director of the Centre of Strategic Planning and Analysis of National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine Rusnak Ivan Stepanovich, Deputy Chief of General Staff on issues of Science, Chief of Military-Scientific Department of General Staff of Ukrainian Armed Forces, Major-General, Doctor of Military Science Telelim Vasil Maksimovich, Chief of Central Scientific and Research Institute of Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, Major-General, Doctor of Military Science Sergei Konoplyov, Director Ukrainian National Security Program Harvard University HE M. Komissarenko, Ukrainian Ambassador to the UK Malcolm Mckintosh, IISS Member James Sherr, Conflict Studies Research Centre William Hopkinson, Head, International Security Program, RIIA Jane Sharp, Kings College, London Michael Clark, Kings College, London Roy Allison, Russia and FSU Program, RIIA John Lloyd, Oxford University Alex Pravda, Oxford University HE Roderic Braithwait, former UK Ambassador to Russia Jonathan Eyal, Director of Studies, RUSI Stephen Pollard, Director for Central and Eastern Europe UK Ministry of Defence Michael Ryder, Security Policy Department Foreign and Commonwealth Office Sebastian Wood, Head of NATO section Foreign and Commonwealth Office Philip Schauer, Desk Officer for Ukraine Foreign and Commonwealth Office Francesca Flessati, Ukraine desk officer, Eastern European Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office Philip Thomas, Department Head, Eastern European Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office John Chipman, Director, IISS Terence Taylor, Assistant Director, IISS Gerry Segal, Director of Studies, IISS Phil Gordon, Senior Fellow, IISS Oksana Antonenko, Research Fellow, IISS Sidney Bearman, Editor Strategic Survey, IISS