[ NATO Summit 2002 ]

RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY - ATLANTIC TREATY ASSOCIATION LEADERSHIP FORUM

Thursday, 21 November 2002

More than 190 undergraduate and graduate students from 38 NATO and Partnership for Peace countries will participate in the Leadership Forum, sponsored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty during the official NATO summit. Students will hear presentations by five heads of state and discuss with them and other Alliance leaders the future shape of Europe, European-U.S. relations, and the role of NATO in meeting the security challenges of the 21st century.

The event is open to the media. Please register by 12:00 noon, Monday, Nov. 18 with Eva Burgetova, tel: (420) 2211-23322, mobile: (420) 724-168419, e-mail

NATO-accredited media may use a RFE/RL shuttle bus that will run all day between the NATO Congress Center and the RFE/RL Broadcasting Center, Vinohradska 1.

13:00	Opening remarks Thomas A. Dine, President of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Antonio Borges de Carvalho, Secretary General of the Atlantic Treaty Association
13:10	Georgia's Choice Eduard Shevardnadze, President of the Republic of Georgia Chair: Donald Jensen, Director of Communications, RFE/RL
14:15	Coffee Break
14:30	The Next Round of NATO Expansion: A Southeast European Perspective Alfred Moisiu, President of the Republic of Albania Stjepan Mesic, President of the Republic of Croatia Boris Trajkovski, President of the Republic of Macedonia Chair: Patrick Moore, Senior Regional Analyst, RFE/RL
16:00	Coffee Break
16:45	Euro-Atlantic Integration: A Latvian Perspective H.E. Vaira Vike-Freiberga, President of the Republic of Latvia Chair: Alan Lee Williams, President of the Atlantic Treaty Association
17:30	NATO in the Post-Cold War World Mr. Bronislaw Geremek, Former Foreign Minister of Poland Mr. Mircea Dan Geoana, Foreign Minister of Romania Chair: Christopher Makins, President of the Atlantic Council of the U.S.