Ukraine - EU Relations.
                          Roundtable VIII.                              
Washington D.C. October 16 - 17 , 2007
Ukraine's Quest Mature Nation Statehood
This year's Ukraine's Quest for Mature Nation Statehood Roundtable, the eight of its kind, was  held at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center  on October 16-17, 2007 and entitled "Ukraine - EU Relations". The two day conference brought together goverment and key non-goverment representatives
of Ukraine, the EU and the US as well as experts from the world of academia to examine and evaluate Ukraine's capacity to "thrive alongside" its great Western neibor as well as its readiness, if ask to join, to
eventually "thrive inside" the European Union.
To facilitate the said examination, the event included four regular sessions featuring eight panels,
six focus sessions. In total nearly seventy speakers addressed the conference proceedings.
Orpheus and Lyra
Photos by Natalia Kouzmina
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