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THE BLACK SEA FORUM FOR DIALOGUE AND PARTNERSHIP SUMMIT

Bucharest, June 5^th 2006

PROGRAMME

Monday, 5^th June 2006

8h30-9h00 Transfer of the participants from the hotel to the Palace of Parliament

9h00-9h10 Official Opening of the Black Sea Forum for Dialogue and Partnership

Summit by H.E. Mihai - Răzvan UNGUREANU, Romanian Minister

of Foreign Affairs

Location: Al loan Cuza Hall, Palace of Parliament

9h10-11h00 "The Wider Black Sea Region (WBSR) in the European and global context"

Addresses by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of EU member states and high officials of international organizations (10 minutes each)

Location: Al, Ioan Cuza Hall, Palace of Parliament

11h00-11h30 Coffee break

11h30-13h00 "The Black Sea Forum: new ideas, new commitments, new instruments"

Address by H. E. Traian BĂSESCU, President of Romania

Addresses by Heads of State and Government

Location: Al. Ioan Cuza Hall, Palace of Parliament

Adoption of the Joint Declaration on the Black Sea Forum for

Dialogue and Partnership

13h00-13h10 Family photo

13h20-14h45 Lunch offered by H.E. Traian BĂSESCU, President of Romania

15h00-18h30 Workshops

First Workshop Shaping a common vision and setting a common agenda for the
Black Sea region

Session 1: Fostering greater synergy among regional organisations: political and institutional preconditions for the success of Black Sea projects

Session 2: Encouraging coherence and mutual enforcement among bilateral and regional instruments of external actors and regional projects

Second Workshop Good Government - strategic investment in a better common

future

Session 1: Promoting good governance and institutional renewal. Bringing in the civil society

Session 2: Deepening the investments in cultural and inter-religious dialogue, people-to-people contacts, education, research and youth

Third Workshop Sustainable development - fighting poverty and securing sound

economic growth

Session 1: Mapping regional resources and logging on sustainable

development: critical areas, alternatives, solutions and opportunities for economic reform

Session 2: Engaging stakeholders in a logic of coordination and cross-fertilization. Highlighting the role and the responsibility of the business community.

Fourth Workshop Encouraging regional cooperation in crisis , management and

environmental protection

Session 1: Encouraging regional cooperation and building partnerships in crisis management: national experience, regional priorities, European developments and global connections in civil emergency planning and post-conflict reconstruction

Session 2: Protecting the environment and coping with new security challenges: improving day-to-day cooperation, concentrating on lessons learned, new conceptual trends and tested practices and procedures

20h00 Reception hosted by H.E Mihai-Răzvan UNGUREANU, Romanian

Minister of Foreign Affairs