The conference was being organized within the project “Analytical support for the Slovak 2019 OSCE Chairmanship” which Democracy House implements with the support of the Slovak Agency for International Development Cooperation.
The OSCE appeared to be the only neutral player, which for over five years has been working on the mitigation of hostilities between all forces involved in the crisis in and around Ukraine. In 2019, international community witnessed tangible shift in peaceful settlement as is evidenced by the prisoner exchanges, and the disengagement of forces near Stanytsia-Luhanska, Zolote and Petrivske, and the “Normandy Four” summit.
The conference was attended by:
Ambassador Henrik Villadsen, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine
Ms. Yevheniia Filipenko, Director General of the Department of International Organization at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
Ambassador Lubomír Kopaj, Member of the Slovak OSCE Chairmanship Task Force
Ms. Elif Çaliskan, Senior Advisor on Eastern Europe in the Albanian Chairmanship team in OSCE
Mr. Artem Salikhov, Advisor to the Minister for Veterans, Temporarily Occupied Territories and Internally Displaced
Persons
Mr. Anatoliy Oktysiuk, Co-founder of Democracy House
Ambassador Marcel Peṧko, Former director of the OSCE Conflict Prevention Centre
Ambassador Martin Sajdik, Former OSCE CiO Special Representative in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group
Ambassador Toni Frisch, TCG Coordinator of the Working Group on Humanitarian Issues
Ambassador Pierre Morel, TCG Coordinator of the Working Group on Political Issues
Ambassador Sergiy Korsunsky, Director of the Hennadii Udovenko Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
Mr. Yevgeniy Yaroshenko, Foreign Policy Analyst of Democracy House
Ilja Bogomolov, Director of the international charity organization “International Medical Care”
Ambassador Sergiy Korsunsky, Director of the Hennadii Udovenko Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
Also Ambassadors and representatives of more than 60 Embassies of foreign countries in Ukraine and international organizations
