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Priorities and Instruments of Slovakia’s Foreign Policy

Annual Conference on Foreign Policy of the Slovak Republic 4 April 2006 Draft Agenda

8.45 – 9.00 Opening Statements

Alexander Duleba, Director, RC SFPA

Stefan Gehrold, Head of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Representation Office for the Czech Republic and Slovakia

9.00 – 10.25 Panel I Foreign Policy of Slovakia in 2005

Chair: Juraj Stern, President of the Board of Directors, SFPA

9.00 – 9.15 Ivan Gašparovič, President of the SR

9.15 – 9.30 Béla Bugár, Chairman of the National Council of the SR

9.30 – 9.45 Eduard Kukan, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the SR

9.45 – 10.25 Discussion

10.25 – 10.40 Coffee break

10.40 – 12.10 Panel II Analysis of Slovakia’s Foreign Policy Environment (EU, NATO)

Chair: Martin Bútora, Honorary President, Institute for Public Affairs

10.40 – 10.55 Pál Csáky, Deputy Prime Minister of the SR

10.55 – 11.10 Martin Fedor, Minister of Defence of the SR

11.10 – 11.25 Vladimír Bilčík, Analyst, RC SFPA

11.25 – 11.40 Tomáš Valášek, Director, Security and Defense Policy Department, MoD SR

11.40 – 12.10 Discussion

12.10 – 13.30 Lunch

13.30 – 15.00 Panel III Priorities of Slovakia’s Foreign Policy (Ukraine, Western Balkans, UN SC)

Chair: Milan Ježovica, Foreign Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister of the SR

13.30 – 13.45 Magda Vášáryová, State Secretary of the MFA SR

13.45 – 14.00 Alexander Duleba, Director, RC SFPA

14.00 – 14.15 Eliška Sláviková, Project Coordinator, People in Peril

14.15 – 14.30 Ivo Samson, Analyst, RC SFPA

14.30 – 15.00 Discussion

15.00 – 15.15 Coffee break

15.15 – 17.00 Panel IV Instruments of the Slovakia’s Foreign Policy (Economic Policy, Development Assistance and NGO sector)

Chair: Peter Weiss, Member of the Board of Directors, RC SFPA

15.15 – 15.30 Ingrid Brocková, Country Office Manager, World Bank

15.30 – 15.45 Katarína Vajdová, Director, Civil Society Development Foundation

15.45 – 16.00 Peter Hulényi, Director, Department of Development Cooperation, MFA SR

16.00 – 16.15 Juraj Barát, Secretary General, Caritas Slovakia

16.15 – 17.00 Discussion and Concluding Remarks

17.00 Glass of Wine