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Regional Cooperation in the Field of Energy Security: Challenges and Perspectives for Belarus.

Energy club

29 October, 2009

Crown Plaza hotel, Minsk, Kirova str. 13

Programme

9.30-10.00 Registration. Coffee served

10.00-10.15 Opening of the event. Welcome words by the organizers.

• Delegation of the European Commission in Minsk (Jean-Eric Holzapfel)

• Swedish Presidency of the EU (Ambassador Stefan Eriksson)

• Office for a Democratic Belarus, Belgium (Olga Stuzhinskaya)

10.15-11.00 Energy security with regard to Belarus: components, challenges and threats.

Moderator -- Olga Stuzhinskaya, ODB

• Alexander Mikhalevich, National Academy of Science of the Republic of Belarus

• Elena Rakova, Institute for Privatization and Management, Belarus

• Kirsten Westphal, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Germany

11.00-11.30 Discussion

11.30-11.45 Coffee break

11.45-12.45 Experience of the gas- and oil-wars: lessons learned and consequences for the region.

Moderator – Valeria Kostyugova, Nashe Mnenie

• Mykhailo Gonchar, Centre "Nomos", Ukraine

• View from the European Union. Pirkka Tappiola, senior adviser to the EU HR Javier So-lana, Policy Unit, Council of the European Union

• View from Russia. (Speaker TBC)

• Tatiyana Manenok, journalist, «Belarusy i rynok» newspaper, Belarus

12.45-13.15 Discussion

13.15-14.15 Lunch

14.15-15.30 Belarus and development of the regional energy system: common projects, challenges and risks of regionalization.

Moderator -- Vladimir Dounaev, Nashe Mnenie

• Vladimir Kuzmich, Director, Belvneshenergo, Belarus

• Piotr Kozarzewski, Centre for Social and Economic Research (CASE); Polish Academy of Sciences

• Alexader Todiichuk, President, Kyiv International energy club "Q-club"

15.30-16.00 Discussion

16.00-16.20 Coffee break

16.20-17.20 Concluding discussion. Policy proposals and recommendations. Closing re-marks.

Moderator-- Vitali Silicki, Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies, Lithuania