In April the Open World held the first meeting with Oleksandr CHALIY, who gave us his forecast of events developments in Ukraine and security situation around our country. How did these predictions come true? We will talk about it on 19 June. Also during the meeting we are going to review the events that took place in Ukraine in the last three months, specifically tense Ukrainian-Russian relations and talk about steps of the new president in the sphere of international relations and security.
Oleksandr CHALIY – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine. Honorary lawyer of Ukraine, Ph.D. in law. President of Grant Thornton Ukraine. Member of top-level international commission «Euro-Atlantic Security Initiative» , member of Supervisory Board of United World International Fund and co-chairman of Working group of National Convention on the EU in Ukraine.
From 1993 to 2008 he worked at diplomatic service. Was the head of Treaty and Law Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, a member of Ukraine’s Delegation on negotiations with Russia and Romania with regard to concluding basic political agreements. Later Mr.Chaly was appointed the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Romania.
From 1998 to 2004 he was the First Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and the State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine responsible for integration into the EU. In 2006-2008 he worked as the Deputy Head of Presidential Secretariat of Ukraine in charge of foreign policy and as the Foreign Policy Counsellor to the President of Ukraine. Since January 1, 2012 – President of Grant Thornton Ukraine.
Working language of the meeting – Ukrainian.
Location – «Dnipro» Hotel, «Leda» conference hall, 1/2 Khreshchatyk str.
To participate in the meeting please fill out the registration from and forward it by 16:00 on 19 June 2014. Preliminary registration is required. Seats are limited.
FOR INFORMATION:
«Open World» Discussion Club is an educational project of Arseniy Yatsenyuk Open Ukraine Foundation for socially active young people. The purpose of the project is to educate new generation of responsible leaders. Each month the Foundation initiates lectures with renowned experts, political and public figures for discussing efficient solutions to social problems in Ukraine and the world.
