
In order to form the most complete vision of the situation in which Ukraine is on the way to liberating Crimea and the occupied areas of the Black and Azov Seas and to determine a possible action plan for liberation, the Crimea Platform Expert Network in coordination with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine initiated the Pre-Day of the Third Summit of the International Crimea Platform.
Registration form for media: https://forms.gle/8xT9LSc6CYNZzFH17
Organizers of the event: Crimea Platform Expert Network
Partners of the event: Crimean Human Rights Group, Centre for Defence Strategies, Media Center Ukraine– Ukrinform, Crimea SOS, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
Special event organizer: Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People
The participants of the event will explore what opportunities Ukraine has to liberate the region, what are the biggest risks on the way to the reintegration of Crimea and discuss the vision of overcoming them.
A separate event within the framework of the Pre-Day is dedicated to the issues of indigenous peoples of Crimea.
AGENDA OF THE EVENT
– 11:00-11:30 OPENING REMARKS BY THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE CRIMEA PLATFORM EXPERT NETWORK AND THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF UKRAINE
– Emine Dzhaparova, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
– Alina Frolova, Deputy Chairman, Centre for Defence Strategies, coor-dinator of the Security Track Expert Network of the Crimea Platform
– Andrii Schekun, Representative of the Crimean Center for Business and Cultural Cooperation “Ukrainian House”, coordinator of the Humanitarian policy track Expert Network of the Crimea Platform
– 11:30-13:30 PANEL DISCUSSION 1.
“STEPS TO LIBERATE AND RESTORE SUSTAINABLE SECURITY IN CRIMEA AND THE BLACK AND AZOV SEAS”
Moderator: Andriy Zagorodnyuk, Chairman, Centre for Defence Strategies, Former Minister of Defence of Ukraine
Panelists:
– Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council
– Andriy Kostin, General Prosecutor of Ukraine
– Roman Kostenko, Member of the Parliament of Ukraine
– Andriy Klymenko, Head of the Monitoring Group, Black Sea Institute of Strategic Studies
– Representative of the government of one of the partner countries (information to be specified)
– 14:30-16:30 PANEL DISCUSSION 2.
“CONSOLIDATING THE EFFORTS OF UKRAINE AND THE DEMOCRATIC WORLD ON THE WAY TO THE REINTEGRATION OF CRIMEA”
Moderator: Tetiana Kurmanova, Journalist, Chair of the board of NGO Hromadske Radio
Panelists:
– Emine Dzhaparova, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
– Oleksandra Azarkhina, Deputy Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine
– Olga Kuryshko, Deputy Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea
– Olena Lunova, Advocacy director of the Human Rights Centre ZMINA, the Human Rights track of the Crimean Platform Expert Network
– Daryna Pidhorna, Lawyer, Regional Center for Human Rights, the Humanitarian policy track of the Crimean Platform Expert Network
– 17:00 – 19:00 SPECIAL EVENT “ENSURING THE RIGHTS OF UKRAINE’S INDIGE-
NOUS PEOPLES – THE PATH TO SUCCESSFUL REINTEGRATION OF CRIMEA”, BY THE MEJLIS OF THE CRIMEAN TATAR PEOPLE
Moderator: Andriy Kulikov, Journalist, broadcaster, co-founder and chairman of the board of Hromadske Radio (2015-2023)
Panelists:
– Refat Chubarov, Chairman of Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people
– Oliver Loode, Member of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues 2014-2016, Chairman of the Board of Uralic NGO
– Suleiman Mamutov, Member of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
– Eskender Bariiev, Chairman of the Board of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, Member of Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, Coordinator of the Working Group “Restoration of the rights of Indigenous peoples of Ukraine as a tool for de-occupation of Crimea”
– Rustem Umerov, Chairman of the State Property Fund of Ukraine
– Olena Arabadzhi, Head of the Board of the National Cultural Society “Jemaat” (online)
– Vyacheslav Lombroso, Head of the Krymchak community in Lviv (online)