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
Participants will
exchange views on the current security environment in the Euro-Atlantic area,
and focus on
H.E. Mr. Toomas
Hendrik Ilves, the President of the
Prior to the
NATO-Ukraine Consultations the Secretary General will hold bilateral talks in
MEDIA
PROGRAMME
(Events open to the press)
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
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