From Yalta via Budapest to Yalta – Global Security Breakdown?
Navigate the meetingValeriy Chalyi, Deputy Head, Administration of the President of Ukraine
Gen. Wesley Clark, (US Army, Retired), President, Wesley K. Clark & Associates; NATO Supreme Allied Commander (1997-2000)
Mohamed ElBaradei, Acting Vice President of Egypt (2013); Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency (1997-2009); Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (2005)
Leonid Kuchma, President of Ukraine (1994-2005)
Javier Solana, President, ESADE Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics; Member of the Board, Yalta European Strategy
Remarks:
Wolfgang Ischinger, Chairman, Munich Security Conference
«Regrettably, there are still illusions in the world that you can talk to Moscow or draw some red lines due to which Moscow will, with time, become milder or inclined to reconciliation. Without illusions, if we want to hear someday, 'At last there is peace, just peace in Ukraine,' then even today we should hear that 'Ukraine has become strong enough; enough, namely, to win.»