SECRETARY GENERAL TO CHAIR
HIGH-LEVEL NATO-UKRAINE CONSULTATIONS
The Secretary
General of NATO, Mr. Jaap the Hoop Scheffer, will travel to the Estonian capital
Tallinn on 12 November 2008, to chair the sixth Informal High-Level NATO-Ukraine
Consultations with participation of Defence Ministers and other senior officials
from Ukraine and NATO countries.
The conference is co-organised by NATO and the International Centre for
Defence Studies.
Previous meetings
in this format were held in Berlin (2002),
Washington
D.C. (2003),
Warsaw (2004),
Vilnius (2005) and Sintra
(2006).
Participants will
exchange views on the current security environment in the Euro-Atlantic area,
and focus on Ukraine’s capabilities to
meet existing security challenges and ability to contribute to NATO-led
operations. They will also take stock of
Ukraine’s progress in
transforming its national security structures and
practices.
H.E. Mr. Toomas
Hendrik Ilves, the President of the Republic of
Estonia will deliver
keynote speech at the beginning of the meeting.
Prior to the
NATO-Ukraine Consultations the Secretary General will hold bilateral talks in
Tallinn with Estonian
leadership – he will meet, inter alia, with President Toomas Hendrik Ilves and
Prime Minister Andrus Ansip.
MEDIA
PROGRAMME
(Events open to the press)
13 November
2008
0830-0855
Installation of photo/film/TV coverage teams in the conference of Hotel
Radisson SAS
0900-0940 Opening
session (remarks by the Secretary General, Minister of
Defence of Estonia, Minister of Defence of Ukraine, Director of the
International Centre for Defence Studies followed by a keynote speech by
President Ilves)
1250-1300
Family photo
1315-1345 Press
conference by the Secretary General, Ukrainian Defence
Minister and Estonian Defence Minister
For further
information on the High-Level Consultations please contact Mr. Robert Pszczel,
NATO Press Service, tel. +32 2 7071430
For press
accreditation please contact Mr. Martin Jasko, Public Affairs Department,
Estonian MOD, tel. +372 717 0105, e-mail:
martin.jasko@kmin.ee