partners INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Russia and Turkey: Forging Multidimensional Partnership 95 th Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations October 15, 2015 Moscow, Hotel Baltschug Kempinski, 1 Balchug street
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Russia and Turkey: Forging Multidimensional Partnership 95 th Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations 09:00 10:00 Registration and welcome coffee 10:00 10:30 Opening Igor IVANOV, President of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998 2004), Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Aleksey MESHKOV, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Member of RIAC Ali Resul USUL, Chairman of the Center for Strategic Research of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey (SAM) Ali Kemal AYDIN, Deputy Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey 10:30 12:30 Plenary Session 1. Russian-Turkish Bilateral Relations The state and dynamics of bilateral relations between Russia and Turkey Russia Turkey dialogue formats: presidential, governmental and parliamentary The prospects for scientific and educational cooperation between Russia and Turkey The role of social relations and intercultural dialogue in the development of bilateral relations Halil AKINCI, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Turkey to the Russian Federation (2008 2010), Founding/First Secretary General of the Turkic Council, Member of Advisory Board at Caspian Strategy Institute Aleksey MESHKOV, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Member of RIAC Ümit YARDIM, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Turkey to the Russian Federation Andrey KORTUNOV, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council, Member of RIAC 2
12:30 14:00 Lunch Konstantin KOSACHYOV, Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs of the Council of the Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Member of RIAC Ildar GILMUTDINOV, State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Deputy, Coordinator of the Parliamentary Group for Relations with the Parliament of the Republic of Turkey, Chairman of the Parliamentary Group for Russian Turkish Friendship Alexander RADKOV, Deputy Head of Rossotrudnichestvo Şaban ÇOBANOĞLU, Deputy Head of the Yunus Emre Institute Altay CENGİZER, Ambassador, Director General for Policy Planning of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey 14:00 16:00 Plenary Session 2. Energy Cooperation in the Context of Russian Turkish Economic Relations Development factors and limits to the growth of bilateral economic cooperation Energy security as a key component of bilateral relations Turkey s strategy as a new transit country and energy hub The prospects for carrying out joint infrastructure projects Evgeny NADORSHIN, Chief Economist at PF Capital Anatoly YANOVSKY*, Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation Sefa Sadık AYTEKIN, Deputy Undersecretary of the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources of the Republic of Turkey Aleksey LIKHACHEV, First Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Ahmet PALANKOYEV, Chairman of the Russia Turkey Business Council, Member of the Council of the Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Andrey GAIDAMAKA, Vice President for Investor Relations of LUKOIL Kirill KOMAROV, First Deputy Director General for Corporate Development and International Business of Rosatom State Company Zafer ALPER, President of the Turkish Atomic Energy Authority (TAEK) Ömer Cihad VARDAN, Chairman of the Foreign Economic Relations Board of Turkey (DEİK) Ahmet Ünal ÇEVIKÖZ, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Turkey, Member of Global Relations Forum 3
16:00 16:30 Coffee Break 16:30 18:30 Plenary Session 3. Strategic Interests and Prospects for Russian- Turkish Cooperation in Resolving Regional Problems Areas of strategic interests and promising spheres of political cooperation between Russia and Turkey Joint efforts to counter the threat of extremism and political violence in the Middle East Central Asia as a field of new challenges and opportunities for cooperation between Russia and Turkey Opportunities for Russian Turkish cooperation in the settlement of conflicts in the Black Sea and the South Caucasus regions Developing a tripartite dialogue between Russia, Turkey and the European Union Olga MOSTINSKAYA, Editor-in-Chief, Security Index Journal Mikhail BOGDANOV, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for the Middle East and Africa Ali Kemal AYDIN, Deputy Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey Alexander DZASOKHOV, Deputy Chairman of the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia, Vice President of RIAC, Member of RIAC Vitaly NAUMKIN, Scientific Director of the Institute for Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Member of RIAC Özdem SANBERK, President of the International Strategic Research Organization (USAK), Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey (1991 1995) Halil AKINCI, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Turkey to the Russian Federation (2008 2010), Founding/First Secretary General of the Turkic Council, Member of Advisory Board at Caspian Strategy Institute Sergey ROGOV, Director of the Institute for US and Canadian Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Member of RIAC Alexander STERNIK, Director of the Third CIS Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Ufuk ULUTAŞ, Director for Foreign Policy at the Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research Hasan Ali KARASAR, Professor of the Department of International Relations, Atilim University (Ankara) 4
18:30 20:00 Cocktail reception 5