Seminar “A New Ball Game? - Consequences of the 2014 NATO Summit"
On October 1, 2014 the Swedish Atlantic Council, the Embassy of Lithuania in Stockholm (NATO Contact Point Embassy in Sweden) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization organize a seminar A New Ball Game?- Consequences of the 2014 NATO Summit".
The last twelve months have brought dramatic changes in the security policy environment to Europe and its neighbours. These will no doubt constitute the main themes during the upcoming NATO Summit in Cardiff on September 4-6, 2014.
High NATO officials, security experts, representatives from Sweden, Finland, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia envisage discussing the possible implications of the decisions in Cardiff for the Baltic Sea Region, for Europe and for the Trans-Atlantic Relations.
Programme
13.00-13.10 Introduction - The two co-moderators - Ambassador Mats Åberg, Secretary General of the Swedish Atlantic Council, and Dr. Carolina Vendil Pallin, Deputy Research Director and Head of the Russia Programme, Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) - and Ambassador of Lithuania, Eitvydas Bajarūnas
13.10 – 13.40 The NATO Summit – A view from the NATO Secretariat (Mr. James Appathurai, Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs)
13.40 – 14.10 A New Ball Game? - Conclusions of a security policy analyst (Dr. Andrew Cottey, Senior Lecturer and Jean Monnet Chair in European Political Integration, Department of Government, University College Cork)
14.10 – 15.40 (including coffee break) Implications for the Baltic Sea region; Ambassador Kęstutis Jankauskas, Permanent Representative of Lithuania to NATO, Mrs. Małgorzata Kosiura-Kaźmierska, Security Policy Department Deputy Director , Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poland; Ms. Elina Seppet, NATO and EU Department Director, Ministry of Defence, Estonia; Ambassador Baiba Braze, Director General, Directorate of Security Policy and International Organizations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Latvia
15.40 – 16.10 A View from Finland (Mr. Charly Salonius-Pasternak, Senior Research Fellow, Finnish Institute of International Affairs)
16.10 – 16.30 A View from Sweden (Ambassador Michael Sahlin, PhD, President of the Swedish Atlantic Council)
16.30 -17.00 Final discussion
