EPP Conference: The dialogue on modernisation with Belarusan society - a new nstrument?
01.04.2013 |In the World| EuroBelarus Information Service,
The conference of the European Parliament group is to take place on April 9, 2013 from 14.30 to 18.00 at Room A3E-2, Altiero Spinelli Building, European Parliament, Brussels.
PROGRAMME
14:30 Introduction by Filip Kaczmarek, Chair of the Delegation for relations with Belarus at the European Parliament
14:35 Introductory statement by Gunnar Wiegand, Director for Russia, Eastern Partnership, Central Asia, Regional Cooperation and OSCE, European External Action Service
Panel I 14:45- 16:10
Dialogue on Modernisation with Belarusian Society - impact assessment and critical analysis a year after its inception
Chair by Elmar Brok, Chair of the Committee of Foreign Affairs
14:50 Radosław Sikorski, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland (tbc)
15:10 Jacek Protasiewicz, Vice- President of the European Parliament
15:20 Antje Leendertse, Ambassador, Special Envoy for Eastern Europe, the Caucasus
and Central Asia, Federal Foreign Office of Germany
15:30 Andrei Yahorau, Coordinator of the DoM's Working Group on Political Dialogue and Political Reforms, Director of the Center for European Transformation
15:40 Gunnar Wiegand, Director for Russia, Eastern Partnership, Central Asia, Regional Cooperation and OSCE, European External Action Service
15:50 Debate in the presence of representatives of the opposition and civil society
Panel II 16:15-17:50
A future direction for the Dialogue on Modernisation with Belarusian Society - what needs to be done in coming years?
Chair by José Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Member of the European Parliament
16:20 Aliaksandr Autushka-Sikorski, Coordinator of the DoM's Working Group Economic, Social and Sector Policy Issues
16:30 Valiantsin Stefanovich, Vice-President of Viasna Human Rights Centre
16:40 Laima Andrikienė, Member of the Delegation for relations with Belarus
16:50 Olga Stuzhinskaya, Director of the Office for a Democratic Belarus
17:00 Franciszak Wiaczorka, Belarusian opposition leader
17:10 Anatol Liabedzka, Belarusian opposition leader
17:20 Alexei Yanukevich, Belarusian opposition leader
17:30 Debate in the presence of representatives of the opposition and civil society
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