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Baku to host international conference â€œAzerbaijan and Eastern Partnership: regional problems and finding new opportunitiesâ€

26 November 2010 08:03 (UTC +04:00)

The conference aims to discuss realities of the South Caucasus as one of the important geopolitical regions of the world, prospects of the regional development, security, peace and cooperation issues and to contribute to the processes of the international diplomacy, SRC told APA.

Participants of the conference will hold wide discussions on the geopolitical processes, long-standing regional conflicts and new directions of their peaceful solutions, regional cooperation, energy security, particularly East-Wets energy corridor challenges and opportunities, impact of energy projects on peace and security in the region, integration of the South Caucasian countries into European Union, Eastern Partnership progress, peace and cooperation prospects of the neighbor countries, international security problems and other priority issues important for the regional geopolitics.

Heads and researchers of the worldâ€™s leading think tanks such as the Strategic Research Center (Azerbaijan), Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Germany), Jamestown Foundation (USA), Chatham House (UK), Russian Academy of Sciences, International Center of Conflicts and International Center on Conflict and Negotiation (Georgia), University of Central Florida (USA), members of the European Commission and European Parliament, heads of representations of the international organizations and diplomatic missions accredited in Azerbaijan will make reports at the conference.

The state and government officials of Azerbaijan, members of the parliament, heads of representations of international organizations and diplomatic missions accredited in Azerbaijan, representatives of the scientific spheres and education, NGOs, mass media managers, experts on regional and international relations.

The previous international conferences within the framework of the South Caucasus Security Forum were held in Armenia 2008 and in Georgia 2009.