“The War, the State and the Society in Current Ukraine: A View from Lithuania”

Partner: Center for EU Enlargement Studies
Event date: Mar 25, 2016
Deadline for registering: Mar 25, 2016
Venue: CEU, 1051 Budapest, Nador u. 11, Smart Room, 10.00 a.m., Hungary
Category: Lecture

The Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Hungary and CEU Center for EU Enlargement Studies (CENS) cordially invite you to:

“The War, the State and the Society in Current Ukraine: A View from Lithuania”

LECTURE BY Mr. Petras Vaitiekūnas

Adviser to Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, former Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs

25 March (Friday) 2016 at 10 a.m. CEU, Nádor 11, Smart Room

Chair: Péter Balázs, Director of CENS, former Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs

Biography:

Petras Vaitiekūnas is a Lithuanian politician who was the Foreign Minister of Lithuania from 2006 to 2008. From 1988 to 1990 he was a member of Sąjūdis, the democratic resistance movement of Lithuania. He was a signatory to the Lithuanian declaration of independence in 1990 and a member of the Lithuanian Supreme Council from 1990 to 1992. He served as foreign affairs adviser to the President of Lithuania from 1993 to 1998 and in 2004. Vaitiekūnas was ambassador to Ukraine from 2010 to 2014. He was the only ambassador who stayed in Crimea during the Russia's aggression and was awarded the Community of Democracies' Mark Palmer Prize in 2015 for his contribution to defending freedoms, democracy and principles of international law in the wake of the Russian aggression against Georgia and Ukraine, and for his efforts to create civil society in Belarus.

For more information, please see the following link: https://cens.ceu.edu/events/2016-03-25/war-state-and-society-current-ukraine-view-lithuania

RSVP to Hana Semanić at semanich@ceu.edu

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Keywords: EU