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Panel Discussion, Craving For Great Romania? Traian Basescu's Intents In Regard To Moldova And Transnistria And Stakes For Ukraine (11:00, Thursday, June 17, 2010) At 11am, June 17, the press centre of Ukrainian News agency is hosting a panel discussion by the American Institute in Ukraine (AIU), entitled "Craving for Great Romania? Traian Basescu's intents in regard to Moldova and Transnistria and stakes for Ukraine." At the panel discussion they discuss Romanian President Traian Basescu promoting a new campaign targeted, as it appear, at restoring domination of Bucharest over the territories Romania Mare ideologists set forth in the 1919 Treaty of Versailles. Rehabilitation of this ideology may entail possible annexation of 'indigenous Romanian' territories, namely eastern Serbia (Banat, Homolje), north-eastern Bulgaria (Dobruja), and Ukraine (part of Odessa region, including Izmail and Chernivtsi). At the same time some Western groups, especially in the United States, are dismal in their admonition that Moscow and Kyiv have a 'secret protocol' on bringing Moldova and Transnistria under their control. Thus the AIU panel discussion will try to answer the following questions: * What facts are known for today and which are the stakes for Ukraine? * Will Traian Basescu take advantage of his country membership in the NATO and the European Union to create new Romania, going beyond its current boundaries? * After a visit of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to Bucharest and Romania's backing Tbilisi's shelved application for NATO admission, will the Romanian president go the way which did the Georgian President, who brought discredit upon himself, in August 2008? * Role of Washington, Brussels and European governments in the prevention of likely territorial conflicts in Eastern Europe. * Which conclusions can be made from the public sentiments and opinions of elitists from Bucharest, Kyiv and Tiraspol? * What can and should the Ukrainian government do to avert a threat to the national security and the country's territorial integrity? For the panel discussion are invited such Ukrainian experts as Vitalii Kulyk, director of the Centre for Research of Civil Society Problems; Oleksandr Vasenko, deputy director of the Ukrainian Research and Development Institute of Environmental Problems, the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine; Serhii Tolstov, director of the Institute for Political Analysis and International Research. The AIU also invited one of the leading American experts for south-eastern Europe's policy and history, a well-known publicist and analyst Srdja Trifkovic. Dr Trifkovic is a widely known conservative publicist and a renowned expert in European and global issues. He published articles and commentaries in such media as The Times (London), the San Francisco Chronicle, the American Conservative and The Philadelphia Inquirer, and appeared at many television and radio channels, including CNN, CNN International, SKY News, BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service and CBC. Trifkovic earned a Bachelor of Arts (with honours) in international relations from the University of Sussex, UK in 1977 and another, in political science, from the University of Zagreb in 1987. Since 1990 he has held a Philosophiae Doctor degree in modern history from the university of Southampton, UK. James George Jatras is deputy director at the American Institute in Ukraine. He is a principal in a public advocacy firm based in Washington, DC. Prior to entering the private sector he was senior foreign policy adviser to the Republican leadership of the United States Senate. He earlier served as an American Foreign Service Officer, where among other assignments he was assigned to the then Office of Soviet Union Affairs. He graduated from the law school of the Georgetown University (doctor of law degree) and the Pennsylvania State University (bachelor degree). Accreditation: For accreditation, please turn to Matvei Mustafayev by telephone +38 (050) 596-0395 or e-mail: <mailto:press....@gmail.com> press....@gmail.com Press centre address: Palats Sportu metro station, 20 Esplanadna Street, first floor.
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