13-09-2014, 01:30 PM
The only person more odious and unwelcome than Bernard-Henri Levy has turned up like the grim reaper.
Quote:Barroso, Blair and Yatseniuk join global leaders at 11th Yalta European Strategy Annual Meeting
President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso, former Prime Minister of Britain (1997-2007) Tony Blair and Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk will participate in the 11th Yalta European Strategy (YES) Annual Meeting.
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, President of the Republic of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves and President of European Parliament Martin Schulz will officially open the 11th YES Annual Meeting on September 12.
Barroso will be a special invited guest of the meeting, which this year will bear the title "New Ukraine, New Europe, New World Building and Defending."
President Barroso will deliver his remarks "Working Together for a United Ukraine in a United Continent" during an evening reception held on Friday, September 12.
Earlier on September 12, businessman and philanthropist Sir Richard Branson, Founder of the Virgin Group, will deliver his perspectives on "How Can Business Contribute to Finding Peace for Ukraine?"
Arseniy Yatseniuk, Prime Minister of Ukraine, will open the second official day of the YES Annual Meeting on September 13.
Tony Blair, Patron of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1997-2007) will deliver special remarks entitled "Toward Reconciliation" also on Saturday.
In addition, on Saturday, leaders of Ukrainian political parties will discuss the issue of "Parliamentary Elections: Breakthrough or Entrenchment of the Old?" featuring a panel including Anatoliy Hrytsenko, MP of Ukraine and head of the Civil Position Party; Oleh Liashko, MP of Ukraine and head of the Radical Party of Ukraine; Yuriy Lutsenko, advisor to the President of Ukraine and head of the Bloc of Petro Poroshenko Party and Sergiy Tigipko, MP of Ukraine and head of the Strong Ukraine Party.
The 11th YES Forum will be moderated by Chrystia Freeland, Member of the Parliament of Canada and Stephen Sackur, presenter of BBC HARDtalk.
"More than 350 leaders in politics, business, society and media representing 20 countries will discuss the impact of the historical events since last November in Ukraine on Europe and the world, how to address Ukraine's internal and external challenges and the risks that come with them for Europe and beyond? How can Ukraine's international partners effectively support the country's further development?," reads a press release from the meeting's organizers.
For the first time in its history, the YES Annual Meeting will take place in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. In past years, the forum was held at its traditional venue, the Livadia Palace in Yalta in Crimea, which was annexed by Russia from Ukraine in March.
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