Young leaders from 9 countries of the PSNR region: Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Moldova, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan have participated in the last but one of the most important meetings of the program agenda – final dinner discussion on the next steps: implementation of the gained knowledge and strengthening the connection between participating countries.
The participants of the StrategEast Young Leadership Program are:
- Deputy Minister of Energy of the Republic of Belarus Vadim Zakrevsky
- Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia Nino Tandilashvili
- Vice Minister of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nataliya Pan
- Deputy Minister of Culture, Information and Tourism of Kyrgyzstan Azamat Zhamankulov
- Vice Minister of Environment of the Republic of Lithuania Martynas Norbutas
- State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of the Republic of Moldova Tatiana Molcean
- Head of International Relations at the President’s office of the Republic of Tajikistan Hokimzoda Manuchehr
- Deputy Minister of Energy and Coal Industry on European Integration of Ukraine Nataliya Boyko
- First Deputy Minister of Information Technologies and Communications of Uzbekistan Olimjon Umarov
This week-long visit to the United States was only the first step of the StrategEast center’s project, which is aimed to build a closer relationship of the participating countries with the Western institutions by delivering a better understanding and through implementation of the best practices, as well as building up a strong network between the young leaders, sensitive to the needs and uniqueness of each country.
The StrategEast Young Leadership Program 2018 was organized by the Washington-based center for political and diplomatic solutions StrategEast in cooperation with Open World Leadership Center and Eurasia Foundation.
