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1ST DAY – WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 2011 |
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| 18:00 |
WELCOMING RECEPTION AND CULTURAL PROGRAM (UPON INVITATION) | |||
| VENUE: HISTORICAL BUILDING OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF SLOVAK REPUBLIC, ŽUPNÉ NÁMESTIE 12, BRATISLAVA |
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| Hosted by PAVOL FREŠO - President, Bratislava Self-Governing Region |
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| 21:00 |
NIGHT OWL SESSION 1: EURO: SHIFTING FROM SURVIVAL TO REVIVAL? (OFF THE RECORD) | |||
| VENUE: KEMPINSKI HOTEL RIVER PARK BRATISLAVA, DVOŘÁKOVO NÁBREŽIE 6, BRATISLAVA | ||||
| ROOM: HABSBURG, FIRST FLOOR | ||||
| Chairperson: MICHAL HORVÁTH - Research Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, Oxford |
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| H. E. IVAN MIKLOŠ - Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance of the Slovak Republic |
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| AMB. IVAN KORČOK - Permanent Representative of the Slovak Republic to the European Union, Brussels | ||||
| SIMON TILFORD - Chief Economist, Centre for European Reform, London |
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| MARCIN PIATKOWSKI - Senior Economist, Warsaw Office, World Bank; Assistant Professor, Kozminski University, Warsaw |
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| 21:00 |
NIGHT OWL SESSION 2: STRATEGIC DEFENCE REVIEWS: CAN WE DO MORE WITH LESS? (OFF THE RECORD) | |||
| VENUE: KEMPINSKI HOTEL RIVER PARK BRATISLAVA, DVOŘÁKOVO NÁBREŽIE 6, BRATISLAVA |
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| ROOM: ARTE RESTAURANT, GROUND FLOOR | ||||
| Chairman: ROBIN SHEPHERD, Director of International Affairs, Henry Jackson Society, Bratislava |
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| GERALD HOWARTH - Minister for International Security Strategy, Ministry of Defence of the United Kingdom, London |
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| RÓBERT ONDREJCSÁK - State Secretary of the Ministry of Defence of the Slovak Republic |
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| JIŘÍ ŠEDIVÝ - State Secretary of the Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic |
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| REMARKS BY: JOHN BARTER - Director Slovak Republic, BAE Systems, Bratislava |
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| 21:00 | NIGHT OWL SESSION 3: ARE WE SECURE IN CYBER SPACE? (OFF THE RECORD) | |||
| VENUE: KEMPINSKI HOTEL RIVER PARK BRATISLAVA, DVOŘÁKOVO NÁBREŽIE 6, BRATISLAVA | ||||
| ROOM: RIVER BANK BRASSERIE, GROUND FLOOR | ||||
| Chairperson: RASTISLAV MACHEL - National Liaison Officer for Slovakia, European Network and Information Security Agency, Bratislava | ||||
| AMB. JÜRI LUIK - Permanent Representative of the Republic of Estonia to NATO, Brussels |
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| REX HUGHES - Visiting Fellow for Cyber Security, Wolfson College, Cambridge University, Cambridge; Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, Toronto |
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| ENEKEN TIKK - Head of the Legal and Policy Branch, Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, Tallinn | ||||
| ROBERT KOSLA - National Security/Defence Industry Manager, Microsoft Central and Eastern European Headquarters |
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2ND DAY – THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 2011 |
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| 08:30 - 08:40 | OFFICIAL OPENING |
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| VENUE: KEMPINSKI HOTEL RIVER PARK BRATISLAVA, DVOŘÁKOVO NÁBREŽIE 6, BRATISLAVA | ||||
| ROOM: MARIA THERESIA | ||||
| AMB. (RET.) RASTISLAV KÁČER - President and Chairman of the Board, Slovak Atlantic Commission | ||||
| MILAN JEŽOVICA - State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic |
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| 08:40 - 09:10 | SPECIAL REMARKS: Defence Capabilities vs. Defence Cuts: Where to Find the Balance? |
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| H. E. ĽUBOMÍR GALKO - Minister of Defence of the Slovak Republic | ||||
| H. E. DAVOR BOŽINOVIĆ - Minister of Defence of the Republic of Croatia |
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| 09:10 - 10:40 | SESSION 1: BELARUS AFTER THE ELECTIONS: WILL SANCTIONS WORK? | |||
| CO-ORGANIZED BY THE CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN STUDIES, PACT INC. AND THE INSTITUTE FOR MODERN SLOVAKIA | ||||
| Chairman: ROLAND FREUDENSTEIN - Deputy Director and Head of Research, Centre for European Studies, Brussels |
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| ALAKSANDR MILINKEVICH - Opposition Leader, Minsk | ||||
| BALÁZS JARÁBIK - Country Representative for Belarus and Ukraine, PACT; Associate Fellow, FRIDE, Kyiv |
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| ALEXEI PIKULIK - Analyst, Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies; European Humanities Universities, Vilnius |
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| EUGENIUSZ SMOLAR - Visiting Senior Fellow, Centre for European Studies, Brussels; Senior Fellow, Polish Institute of International Affairs, Warsaw | ||||
| PAVOL DEMEŠ - Senior Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the U. S.; Minister for International Affairs of the Slovak Republic (1991 – 1992) | ||||
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Networking Coffee Break | |||
| 11:00 - 11:15 | KEYNOTE REMAKRS: NEW CHALLENGES FOR NATO | |||
| KARL A. LAMERS - President, NATO Permanent Assembly, Berlin; Deputy Chairman (CDU), Defence Committee, Bundestag | ||||
| 11:15 - 12:45 | SESSION 2: EUROPEAN ORDER: ARE WE HEADING TOWARDS A MULTIPOLAR EUROPE? | |||
| CO-ORGANIZED BY THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL FOR FOREIGN RELATIONS (ECFR) | ||||
| Chairman: EDWARD LUCAS - International Editor, The Economist, London |
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| CHRISTIAN SCHMIDT - Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Defence of the Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin |
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| JAAP DE ZWAAN - Director, Netherlands Institute of International Relations, The Hague |
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| OKSANA ANTONENKO - Senior Fellow and Programme Director for Russia and Eurasia, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London |
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| SERHAT GÜVENÇ - Professor of International Relations, Khadir Has University, Istanbul |
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| HRYHORIY NEMYRIA - Former Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Policy Adviser to Yulia Tymoshenko, Kyiv | ||||
| 12:45 - 14:00 | NETWORKING LUNCH |
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| 14:00 - 15:30 |
SESSION 3: TRANSATLANTIC RELATIONS IN THE 21ST CENTURY: THE ROLE OF CENTRAL EUROPE |
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| Chairperson: CONSTANZE STELZENMÜLLER - Senior Transatlantic Fellow, The German Marshall Fund of the U. S., Berlin |
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| A. WESS MITCHELL - President and Co-Founder, Center for European Policy Analysis, Washington, D.C. | ||||
| ANDREW A. MICHTA, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center; M.W. Buckman Distinguished Professor of International Studies, Rhodes College, Washington, D. C. |
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| MARCIN ZABOROWSKI - Director, Polish Institute for International Affairs, Warsaw | ||||
| TOMÁŠ VALÁŠEK - Member of the Board, Slovak Atlantic Commission; Director of Foreign Policy and Defence, Centre for European Reform, London |
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| 15:30 - 16:00 |
Networking Coffee Break | |||
| 16;00 - 17:15 | SESSION 4: EU TODAY AND TOMORROW | |||
| Chairman: AMB. (RET.) MARTIN BÚTORA - Honorary President, Institute for Public Affairs, Bratislava |
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| H.E. JÁNOS MARTONYI: HUNGARIAN PRESIDENCY OF THE EU |
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Hungary | ||||
| MIKOŁAJ DOWGIELEWICZ: FORTHCOMING POLISH PRESIDENCY OF THE EU |
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| State Secretary for European Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland | ||||
| H. E. KAREL SCHWARZENBERG: V4 AS AN ESSENTIAL BUILDING BLOCK OF THE EU |
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| Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic | ||||
| 17:15 - 17:45 |
KEYNOTE SPEECH: EASTERN PARTNERSHIP OF THE EUROPEAN UNION | |||
| ŠTEFAN FÜLE - Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy, European Commission | ||||
| 17:45 - 18:15 | KEYNOTE SPEECH: U. S. PERSPECTIVE ON CENTRAL EUROPE | |||
| PHILIP H. GORDON - Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, U. S. Department of State, Washington, D. C. |
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| 21:00 | NIGHT OWL SESSION 4: SORTING OUT THE NATO-EU COOPERATION (OFF THE RECORD) | |||
| VENUE: KEMPINSKI HOTEL RIVER PARK BRATISLAVA | ||||
| ROOM: HABSBURG, FIRST FLOOR | ||||
| Chairperson: AMB. (RET.) KAREL KOVANDA - Former Deputy Director General for External Relations, European Commission; Former Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic to NATO, Prague |
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| STEFANIE BABST - NATO Acting Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy, NATO Headquarters, Brussels |
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| AMB. TACAN ILDEM - Director General for International Security Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey, Ankara |
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| AMB. (RET.) PÉTER BALÁZS - Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Hungary (2009-2010) |
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| EIMERT VAN MIDDELKOOP - Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Netherlands (2007-2010) | ||||
| 21:00 | NIGHT OWL SESSION 5: ARAB WORLD UPRISING: WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE WEST? (OFF THE RECORD) | |||
| VENUE: KEMPINSKI HOTEL RIVER PARK BRATISLAVA | ||||
| ROOM: ARTE RESTAURANT, GROUND FLOOR | ||||
| Chairman: ROBIN SHEPHERD - Director of International Affairs, Henry Jackson Society, Bratislava |
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| AMB. (RET.) KURT VOLKER - Managing Director and Senior Fellow, Center for Transatlantic Relations, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C. |
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| EDWARD LUCAS - International Editor, The Economist, London | ||||
| TOMÁŠ VALÁŠEK - Member of the Board, Slovak Atlantic Commission; Director of Foreign Policy and Defence, Centre for European Reform, London |
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| 21:00 | NIGHT OWL SESSION 6: UKRAINE: HEADING EAST OR WEST? (OFF THE RECORD) | |||
| CO-ORGANIZED BY PACT INC. |
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| VENUE: KEMPINSKI HOTEL RIVER PARK BRATISLAVA | ||||
| ROOM: RIVER BANK BRASSERIE, GROUND FLOOR | ||||
| Chairman: PAVOL DEMEŠ - Senior Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the U. S.; Minister for International Affairs of the Slovak Republic (1991 – 1992) |
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| AMB. ISTVÁN GYARMATI - President and CEO, International Centre for Democratic Transition, Budapest |
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| ALEXANDER GONCHARENKO - President, Center for International Security and Strategic Studies, Kyiv | ||||
| OLGA SHUMYLO-TAPIOLA - Visiting Scholar, Carnegie Europe, Brussels | ||||
| IRYNA BEKESHKINA - Director, Democratic Initiatives Foundation, Kyiv | ||||
| 21:00 - 22:30 |
BREAK-OUT DINNER SESSIONS (OFF THE RECORD) |
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| A/ CLIMATE CHANGE: AN ISSUE OF NATIONAL SECURITY? | ||||
| Chairperson: VLADIMÍR BILČÍK - Senior Research Fellow, Research Centre, Slovak Foreign Policy Association, Bratislava | ||||
| DUNCAN DEPLEDGE - Research Analyst, Climate Change and Security Programme, Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, London |
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| MILAN LAPIN - Head of the Division of Meteorology and Climatology, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava |
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| B/ NUCLEAR POLICY OF NATO AND THE EURO-ATLANTIC SECURITY |
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| VENUE: CAFÉ SAVOY | ||||
| Chairman: IAN ANTHONY - Research Director, Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Programme, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Stockholm |
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| GUY ROBERTS - Deputy Assistant Secretary General for WMD Policy, Director, Nuclear Policy Planning Directorate, NATO Headquarters, Brussels |
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| RALF ROLOFF - Senior German Professor, George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Garmisch-Partenkirchen |
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| HARRY L. HEINTZELMAN - Deputy Director, Office of Euro-Atlantic Security Affairs, Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D. C. |
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| C/ DEFENCE COOPERATION AFTER CRISIS | ||||
| VENUE: MILTON CAFÉ RESTAURANT | ||||
| Chairman: IAN BRZEZINSKI - Senior Fellow, International Security Program, Atlantic Council, Washington, D.C. |
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| MATTHEW RHODES - Director, Program in Advanced Security Studies, George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Garmisch-Partenkirchen (confirmed) |
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| OLAF OSICA - Deputy Director, Centre for Eastern Studies, Warsaw (confirmed) | ||||
| D/ ENERGY SECURITY FROM THE VISEGRAD PERSPECTIVE | ||||
| VENUE: CAFÉ PIERROT | ||||
| Chairman: VLADIMIR SOCOR - Senior Fellow, Eurasia Programme, Jamestown Foundation, Washington (confirmed) | ||||
| KAREL HIRMAN - Adviser to the Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic on Energy Security, Bratislava (confirmed) | ||||
| MONIKA EORDOGHNE ZSIGRI - Directorate B – Security of Supply, Energy Markets & Networks, Directorate-General for Energy, European Commission, Brussels |
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| ANDRÁS DEÁK - Research Director, Center for EU Enlargement Studies, Budapest | ||||
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3RD DAY – FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 2011 |
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| 09:00 - 10:30 | SESSION 5: EASTERN PARTNERSHIP 2.0 |
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| KEYNOTE REMARKS: H.E. MIKULÁŠ DZURINDA - Minister of Foreign Affaris of the Slovak Republic | ||||
| Chairman: AMB. (RET.) RASTISLAV KÁČER - President and Chairman of the Board, Slovak Atlantic Commission |
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| H.E. IURIE LEANCĂ - Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affaris and European Integration of the Republic of Moldova | ||||
| H.E. GRIGOL VASHADZE - Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Georgia | ||||
| BRUCE JACKSON - President, Project on Transitional Democracies, Washington, D. C. | ||||
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Networking Coffee Break | |||
| 11:00- 12:30 |
SESSION 6: TWO YEARS AFTER U.S.-RUSSIA RESET: RETHINK OR CONTINUE? | |||
| Chairman: STEPHEN FLANAGAN - Senior Vice-President and Henry A. Kissinger Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D. C. |
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| ALEXANDER NIKITIN - Director, Center for Euro-Atlantic Security, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Moscow | ||||
| JEREMY SHAPIRO - Special Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, US Department of State, Washington, D. C. |
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| AMB. MIROSLAV LAJČÁK - Managing Director, Europe and Central Asia, European External Actions Service, Brussels; Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic (2009 – 2010) |
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| BOBO LO - Analyst and Former Deputy Head at the Australian Embassy in Moscow, London |
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| 12:30 - 14:00 | NETWORKING LUNCH |
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| 14:00 - 15:30 |
PANEL 7: NATO AFTER LISBON: WHAT LIES AHEAD? |
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| KEYNOTE REMARKS: STEFANIE BABST - NATO Acting Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy, NATO Headquarters, Brussels | ||||
| Chairman: IAN BRZEZINSKI - Senior Fellow, International Security Program, Atlantic Council, Washington, D.C. |
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| AMB. JÜRI LUIK - Permanent Representative of the Republic of Estonia to NATO, Brussels |
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| AMB. ADAM KOBIERACKI - Director, Department of Security Policy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland |
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| AMB. TACAN ILDEM - Director General for International Security Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey, Ankara | ||||
| AMB. (RET.) KURT VOLKER - Managing Director and Senior Fellow, Center for Transatlantic Relations, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C. |
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| 15:30 |
CLOSING REMARKS AND SUMMARY |
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| RÓBERT VASS - Founder of GLOBSEC Forum, Secretary General, Slovak Atlantic Commission | ||||
