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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
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| 13:10 | Georgia's Choice
Eduard Shevardnadze, President of the Republic of Georgia
Chair: Donald Jensen, Director of Communications, RFE/RL
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| 14:15 | Coffee Break
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| 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
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| 16:00 | Coffee Break
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| 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
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| 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.
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| Saturday, 23 November 2002
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