The seminar brought to London senior military and security policy-makers not only from Ukraine, but also from Georgia and Moldova. Subjects discussed included: the UK perspective on the development of a European security and defence policy; plans for enhancing European military capabilities; the challenges of developing independent European military capabilities; and the key achievements and future objectives of the MoD's military-cooperation programme with Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova, which is conducted under the UK's defence-diplomacy initiative. There was also a frank and constructive exchange of views on the lessons from the Kosovo campaign and its implications for NATO's policies including presentations by Ukrainian participants on the Ukrainian General Staff's assessment of the operation and its implications for Ukraine's commitment to implementing arms-control agreements and its support for the non-proliferation regime. Agenda | 9:00-9:30 | Opening remarks: | John Chipman, Director IISS
Stephen Pollard, Director CEE, UK MoD | | 9:30-10:30 | Session 1: | European Security and Defence Policy: political-military aspects | Chair: | Stephen Pollard, Director CEE, UK MoD | | Speaker: | Nigel Baker, Head of European Defence Policy, Security Policy Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office | | Commentator: | Gilles Andreani, Senior Fellow for International Security, IISS |
| | 10:30-11:30 | Session 2: | Strengthening European military capabilities | Chair: | Stephen Pollard, Director CEE, UK MoD | | Speaker: | Rupert Holderness, Deputy Director NATO and European Policy Group | | Commentator: | Terence Taylor, Assistant Director IISS, Editor The Military Balance, IISS |
| | 11:30-12:30 | | Discussion | | 12:15 | | Address by Secretary of State for Defence Geoff Hoon MP | | 13:30-15:00 | Session 3: | NATO, EU and their partners in Central and Eastern Europe: Enhancing security co-operation | Chair: | Oksana Antonenko, Programme Director (Eurasia), IISS | | Speakers: | Vladislav Yasnyuk, Head of NATO and WEU Section, Foreign Ministry
Konstantin Kononenko, Department of Political Analysis of International Security Issues, National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine
Gen. Johny Pirtskhalaishvili, Chief of General Staff, First Deputy Defence Minister of Georgia
Gen. Anatol Guboglo, Deputy Defence Minister, Republic of Moldova
Stephen Pollard, Director CEE, UK Ministry of Defence |
| | 15:30-16:30 | Session 4: | Political and military lessons from the Kosovo operation | Chair: | Terence Taylor, Assistant Director, IISS | | Speakers: | Simon Marsh Head, Kosovo Review Team, UK Ministry of Defence
Gen. Volodimir Shkidchenko, Chief of General Staff, First Deputy Defence Minister of Ukraine |
| | 16:30-17:30 | Session 5: | Non-proliferation and arms control: future agenda | Chair: | Terence Taylor, Assistant Director, IISS | | Speakers: | Andrew Barlow, Head of Arms Control and Disarmament Research Unit, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Col. Vytalyi Kozak, Head, Information and Analytical Department of the General Staff of Ukraine |
| | 17:30-18:00 | Closing Remarks | Terence Taylor, Assistant Director, IISS |
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