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The 5th Anniversary
Stockholm Conference on Baltic Sea Region Security and Cooperation
October 19, 2000

Table of Contents:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

• Welcoming Remarks:
  Dr. Erik Berglöf, Director, SITE

• Opening Address:
  Sven-Olof Petersson, Director General for Political Affairs, Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs

MORNING SESSION - THE BALTIC SEA REGION IN A EUROPEAN AND TRANSATLANTIC CONTEXT

• Morning Keynote:
  Security Aspects if Integrating Latvia into Euro-Atlantic Institutions, President Vaira Vike-Freiberga, Republic of Latvia

THEME: Developments in Security and Defense

• The Impossibility of a "Baltic Sea Region Security"
  Harri Tiido, Deputy Under-Secretary in Policy, Press and Information Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Estonia

• A U.S. View of Developments in Transatlantic Security and Defense
  Dr. Daniel N. Nelson, Professor of Democratization & Civil-Military Relations, Marshall Center for European Security Studies, Federal Republic of Germany

• A New Security Dimension for a New Europe
  Ambassador Rolf Ekéus, Chairman, SIPRI

THEME: Initiatives for Regional Cooperation

• The Role of the Council of Baltic Sea States in Promoting Regional Cooperation
  Dr. Hans-Jürgen Heimsoeth, Ambassador-at-Large of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany, and Chairman of the Committee of Senior Officials of the Council of the Baltic Sea States

• The Northern Dimension and a Regional Health Initiative
  Lars Erik Flatø, State Secretary, Ministry of Health, Norway

• Regional Cooperation from a Finnish Perspective
  Ambassador Heikki Talvietie, Embassy of Finland, Stockholm

• Morning endnote: An EU Perspective on Economic Development in Northern Europe
  Dr. Lars-Erik Lundin, Head of Security Department, Directorate General External Relations, European Commission

AFTERNOON SESSION - PROMOTING ECONOMIC GROWTH IN RUSSIA AND EASTERN EUROPE

• Afternoon Welcoming Remarks:
  Ambassador Lyndon L. Olson, Jr., Embassy of the United States of America, Stockholm

• Afternoon Opening Address: U.S. Partnerships with the European Union and with Russia
  Thomas R. Pickering, Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs, United States of America

• Afternoon Keynote: For a Larger and Stronger Europe - with Business and Finance as Drivers of Transition
  Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, former Minister for Foreign Affairs, Denmark, and Chairman of the Baltic Development Forum

THEME: Current Economic Policy in Russia

• The Putin Administration and the Russian Economy
  Tatyana Paramonova, First Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Russia

THEME: Promoting Economic Growth in Eastern Europe

• A Polish Perspective on the Promotion of Growth in Eastern Europe and the Baltic Sea Region
  Dr. Robert Mroziewicz, former Deputy Foreign Minister & former Deputy Defense Minister of the Republic of Poland, and Professor, Collegium Civitas at the Polish Academy of Science

• Summing up the Past Five Years and the Promotion of Growth in the Baltic Sea Region
  Vygaudas Ušackas, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Republic of Lithuania, and Chief Negotiator for the Lithuanian EU Accession

• Preconditions for Sustainable Growth in Transition Economies
  Bengt Dennis, Senior Adviser, SEB, Member of the Board, SEB Baltic Holding AB

• Closing Remarks:
  Paul Starobin, Moscow Bureau Chief, Business Week

APPENDICES

1. Biographies

2. Co-organizers

3. New international study on the consequences of enlargement, "EU Runs the Risk of Paralysis"
   Erik Berglöf, Director, Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE)