3rd Model of the NATO Youth Parliamentary Assembly

PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT

The youth of Ukraine at the 3rd Youth Model of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly appealed to the Alliance to announce Ukraine’s future membership in NATO at the Summit in Vilnius.

Under the conditions of war, it is extremely important to promote Ukraine’s accession to NATO. That is why we started the third Model of the NATO Youth Parliamentary Assembly, the purpose of which is to educate a new generation of Euro-Atlanticists.

On May 26, a unique, the third in Ukraine, Model of the Youth Parliamentary Assembly of NATO will be held, organized by the National Interests Advocacy Network and thanks to the NATO Information and Documentation Center in Ukraine. More than 230 students from 47 universities listened to lectures by top world experts in the direction of NATO’s wor
80 of the best students will gather in the Kyiv Municipal State Administration premises and model the work of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.

Participants will be able to feel the atmosphere that prevails in the assembly. At the simulation of the NATO PA, the participants will present the resolutions they have adopted in the committees.

The meeting will take place in the premises of the KCSA (KMDA) (Kyiv, Khreshchatyk St., 36).

Speakers:

• Vitali KLYCHKO, Head of the Kyiv City State Administration, Mayor
• Mark VOYGER, Advisor to the US Army in Europe on russia and Eurasia, Director of the Master’s Program in Global Management at the American University in Kyiv
• Vineta KLEINE, Director of the NATO Information and Documentation Center in Ukraine (online)
• Rasa JUKNEVIČIENĖ, Member of the European Parliament and President of the NATO PA (2018)
• US Embassy Acting Deputy Chief of Mission, Mark Stroh, Acting Deputy Chief of Mission, Mark Stroh US Embassy in Ukraine
• Ambassador of Lithuania Valdemaras Sarapinas
• Ambassador of Romania Alexandru Victor Micula
• Ambassador of Austria Arad Benkö
• Ambassador of Latvia Ilgvars Kļava
• Ivanna KLYMPUSH-TSINTSADZE, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Ukraine’s Integration into the European Union, People’s Deputy of Ukraine of the Verkhovna Rada of the IX convocation
• Rostyslav TISTYK, People’s Deputy of Ukraine
• Mykhailo GONCHAR, President of the Center for Global Studies “Strategy XXI”
• Volodymyr BONDARENKO, Secretary of the Kyiv City Council
• Hanna Hopko, Chairman of the Board of the National Interests Advocacy Network “ANTS”, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (2014-2019)
• Oksana YURYNETS, Professor of the Lviv Polytechnic University, Head of the Permanent Delegation of Ukraine to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (2018-2019).

Registration will start at 10:00 a.m.

To cover the event and participate in it, registration is required:

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For the third time, ANTS is implementing a youth platform designed to strengthen the Euro-Atlantic orientation of Ukraine by providing proactive youth with knowledge and skills related to the modern challenges of European integration in the period of martial law.

During the month, the participants of the III Youth Model attended a course of lectures, the guest speakers of which were:

• Olga Stefanishyna, Deputy Prime Minister for Euro-Atlantic Integration
• Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze, Head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Ukraine’s Integration into the European Union, People’s Deputy of Ukraine to the Verkhovna Rada, Head of the Ukrainian Delegation to the PA NATO 2014-2016
• Madeleine Moon, NATO PA President 2018-2019
• Vineta Kleine, Director of the NATO Information and Documentation Center in Ukraine
• Mark Voyger, Adviser to the US Army in Europe on russia and Eurasia
• Hanna Hopko, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (2014-2019)
• Solomiia Bobrovska, People’s Deputy of Ukraine of the 9th convocation
• Mykhailo Gonchar, President of the Center for Global Studies “Strategy XXI”
• Anastasia Stasiuk, Secretary of the Permanent Delegation to the PA NATO,
• Lyudmila Dolgonovska, Head of the Office of the President of the American University in Kyiv
• Rostyslav Tistyk, People’s Deputy of Ukraine
• Maksym Kyiak, The Senior employee of the Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• Marianna Fakhurdinova, Ambassador of European Youth and Expert of the Analytical Center New Europe
• Yaroslav Sydorovych, Expert on the Project “russian Assets as the Source to Restore the Ukrainian Economy”
• Oksana Yurynets, project manager of the III Youth Model of the NATO PA and People’s Deputy of Ukraine of the VIII convocation, Head of the Ukrainian delegation to the NATO PA 2018-2019, Professor of the Department of Medical Sciences of the Lviv Polytechnic National University.

During this month, the students discussed many current issues: the structure of NATO, the functional duties of the President of the NATO PA, the energy component of security, strategic communications, and inter-parliamentary diplomacy; the economic front of Ukraine; the role of the USA in strengthening the security component; and Great Britain in the activities of the Parliamentary Assembly. All these lectures enabled the participants to gain new knowledge, which they will need during the final simulation of the event.

The project is carried out with the support of the NATO Information and Documentation Center and the National Interests Advocacy Network “ANTS”.