Agenda
U.S.-Nordic-Baltic Cooperation: Shaping the U.S.-European Agenda
Friday, May 4, 2012
The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
Kenney Auditorium
1740 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
8:30 am Registration and welcome coffee
9:00–9:15 Welcome and Opening remarks
Kurt Volker,
Senior Fellow, Center for Transatlantic Relations
Pontus Melander,
Minister Counselor, Embassy of Sweden
9:15 Keynote Addresses: Europe Whole and Free—An Unfinished Business
Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Professor, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland
Transatlantic agenda on Russia
Linas Linkevičius,
Ambassador-at-Large, Office of the Prime Minister of Lithuania former Minister of Defense of Lithuania
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Panel Discussion: Russia and the East
David Kramer,
President, Freedom House
Urban Ahlin,
MP, Deputy chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Swedish Parliament
Kadri Liik,
Senior Researcher, International Center for Defense Studies of Estonia
Moderator: Damon Wilson, Vice President, The Atlantic Council
12:00 –1:30 Buffet Luncheon
Julie Smith,
Deputy National Security Advisor in the Office of the Vice President
1:30– 2:30 Panel Discussion: Embedding and Integration
Jānis Sārts,
State Secretary, Ministry of Defense of Latvia
Daniel P. Fata,
Vice President, The Cohen Group
Mike Winnerstig,
Swedish Defense Research Agency
Moderator: Kurt Volker,
Senior Fellow, Center for Transatlantic Relations
2:30–3:45 Panel Discussion: Energy Security
Matthew Bryza,
Director of the International Center for Defense Studies in Tallinn,
Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council
Andris Sprūds,
Latvian Institute of International Affairs
Arūnas Molis,
Energy Security Center under Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Moderator: Robert Nurick,
Senior Fellow, The Atlantic Council
3:45 Concluding Remarks
Kurt Volker,
Senior Fellow, Center for Transatlantic Relations
5:00–7:30 Buffet Reception Hosted by Embassy of Lithuania
1622 16th Street, NW,
Washington DC 20009
(Directions on registration table)
Remarks:
James Townsend,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy,
U.S. Department of Defense
The conference is organized with kind support of the Foreign Ministry of Sweden and Latvian and Lithuanian Embassies in the U.S.
