15th Yalta European Strategy Annual Meeting to Open Today

13 September 2018

The 15th Annual Meeting of Yalta European Strategy (YES) – “The Next Generation of Everything” – will be open today, on September 13, 2018, in Mystetskiy Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine.

The forum will start with the traditional evening reception and welcoming remarks by Aleksander Kwaśniewski, President of Poland (1995-2005), Chairman of the YES Board, Vitali Klitschko, Mayor of Kyiv and Victor Pinchuk, Founder of YES, Victor Pinchuk Foundation and EastOne Group. 

Organized by the international forum YES in partnership with the Victor Pinchuk Foundation the conference will gather over 600 leading politicians, diplomats, businessmen, civil activists and experts from 28 countries to discuss the major challenges faced by the next generation and strategies for creating a better future for Ukraine, Europe and the World. 

The 15th Annual Meeting of Yalta European Strategy (YES) will be held on September 13-15, 2018.  

The official Twitter handle of the 15th YES Annual Meeting is @yes_ukraine, and participants and followers can include the hash tag: #YESUkraine2018

Partners of 15th YES Annual Meeting:
Arawak Energy
Hillmont Partners
lifecell
International Renaissance Foundation
Western NIS Enterprise Fund (WNISEF)

Media partners of 15th YES Annual Meeting:
Dzerkalo Tyzhnya (DT.UA)
European Pravda
ICTV
Liga.net
Novoye Vremya Strany (NV)
PRYAMIY Channel
Radio NV 
The Kyiv Post

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Muhammad Yunus
Muhammad Yunus
Nobel Peace Prize Winner, 2006; Founder, Grameen Bank; Chairman, Yunus Centre , 9th YES Annual Meeting, 2012
«Poverty is not created by the poor. Poverty is externally imposed on them. Poverty is created by the system that we built…Poverty should be in a museum, not in human society»