o Amb. Žygimantas Pavilionis – Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, Founder of the Kalinowski Forum
o Mr Radosław Fogiel – Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland (in-person)
o Mr Oleksandr Merezhko – Chair of the Committee on Foreign Policy and Interparliamentary Cooperation, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
o Mr Laurynas Kasčiūnas – Chair of the National Security and Defence Committee of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania (in-person)
o Ms Anna Fotyga – Member of the European Parliament
o Mr Damon Wilson – President of the National Endowment for Democracy
o Ms Nino Evgenidze – Executive Director at the Economic Policy Research Center
Moderator:
o Mr Ian Brzezinski – Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Europe and NATO Policy
o Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart – House Appropriations Committee, Chair of the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs (SFOPS) Subcommittee
o Mr Pavel Fischer – Chair of the Foreign Affairs, Defense and Security Committee of the Senate of Czech-Republic
o Mr Pablo Hispán – Deputy Chair of European Affairs Committee of the Congress of Deputies of the Kingdom of Spain
o Ms Hsiao Bi-khim -Representative of Taiwan to the United States
o Dr. Daniel Twining -President of International Republican Institute
o Mr Derek Mitchell – President of National Democratic Institute
o Ms Rosa María Payá Acevedo – Cuban activist for freedom and human rights
o Mr Hugo Antonio Acha -Senior Research Fellow at the Center for a Secure Free Society
o Sen. Robert Menendez – Chair of U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Nino Evgenidze , Executive Director of the Economic Policy Research Center (EPRC), participated in the Kalinowski Forum, annual round-table of the well-known world leaders and experts on the issues of authoritarianism, democratic development, and future of Belarus as a part of the European family.
This year the Kalinowski Forum was held in Washington. Within the framework of the conference, world leaders, experts and representatives of non-governmental organizations discussed two main topics:
A decisive year for Europe whole and free (2023 as window of historical opportunity for EU and NATO enlargement)
The opening speech of the Kalinowski conference was addressed by Nancy Pelosi, former Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States, and Svitlana Tsykhanuskaya, leader of Democratic Belarus. The conference also featured member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Oleksandr Merezhko, member of the European Parliament, Anna Fotyga, Senator Robert Menendez, President of the National Endowment for Democracy, Damon Wilson, Founder of the Kalinowski Forum, Amb. Žygimantas Pavilionis, and other world leaders and experts.
