Kosovo: decentralisation as the key to future status negotiations

PROGRAMME


Opening Session

Moderator: tbc

9:15 - Introduction
Senator Giovanni Lorenzo Forcieri, Vice President of the NATO PA and Head of the Italian Delegation to the NATO PA (tbc)


9:30 - Keynote presentation
Ambassador Kai Eide, Norway Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council (tbc)

9:50 - Keynote presentation
speaker tbc


10:10 - Discussion


11:00 - Coffee Break


11:15 - Panel Presentation on the Kosovo Decentralisation Process

Moderator: (tbc)

Why is Decentralisation important for Kosovo Status talks?
White Paper presented by the Center for Non-Violent Resistance

- Nenad Djurdjevic, Director, “Center For Non-Violent Resistance", NGO, Belgrade, and country representative of the Princeton Project on Ethnic Relations
- Srdjan Cvijic, Expert for Democratization and Human Rights, Working Table 1, Stability Pact for SEE
- Danijela Nenadic, Center for Non-Violent Resistance


11:45 - Discussion


13:00 - Lunch hosted


Moderator: (tbc)

15:00 - Presentation
Søren Jessen Petersen, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in Kosovo (tbc)


15:20 - Presentation
Lieutenant General Giuseppe Valotto, KFOR Commander (tbc)


15:40 - Discussion


16:45 - Coffee Break


17:00 - Panel Presentation on The Future of Kosovo

Moderator: Dusan Janjic, Director, Institute of Social Sciences. Coordinator, Forum for Ethnic Relations (tbc)

- Sanda Raskovic-Ivic, President of the Coordination Center for Kosovo and Metohija (tbc)
- Lutfi Haziri, Minister of local self government, Kosovo (tbc)
- Teuta Sahatqija, Caucus leader of ORA political Party, Assembly of Kosovo
Milorad Todorovic, MP, Serbian and Montenegro (tbc)


18:35 - End of the Seminar



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