On July 7-9, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov and RIAC member Dmitry Trenin, Director of Carnegie Moscow Center, took part in the international Experts' Forum held in Warsaw on the margins of the NATO summit and made their reports to the prominent audience. The discussants focused on NATO strategy in the eastern and southern flanks, its evolution in the nuclear and conventional areas, relations with Russia and other post-Soviet states, countering international terrorism, cybersecurity and migration, Afghanistan, and NATO-EU cooperation.
On July 7-9, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov and RIAC member Dmitry Trenin, Director of Carnegie Moscow Center, took part in the international Experts' Forum held in Warsaw on the margins of the NATO summit and made their reports to the prominent audience.
Sponsored by the Polish Institute of International Affairs and the GLOBSEC, the CEE largest security forum, with assistance of the Center for Strategic & International Studies, the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Atlantic Council of the United States, the event gathered over 400 experts, government and international officials, military officers and journalists, among them Polish Presdient Andrzej Duda, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, foreign and defense ministers of Poland, presidents of Croatia and Montenegro, foreign ministers of Italy and Norway, as well as other officials from NATO and neutral European countries.
The discussants focused on NATO strategy in the eastern and southern flanks, its evolution in the nuclear and conventional areas, relations with Russia and other post-Soviet states, countering international terrorism, cybersecurity and migration, Afghanistan, and NATO-EU cooperation.
