Andrius Kubilius – Member of the European Parliament, Prime Minister of Lithuania (1999-2000; 2008-2012) (LITHUANIA);
Juozas Olekas – First Deputy Speaker, Board of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania (LITHUANIA);
Taras Vysotsky – First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine (UKRAINE);
Jacek Piechota – Minister of Economy (2001-2003; 2005), Deputy of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland (1985-2007), President of Polish-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce (POLAND);
Kira Spyrydonova – Director of the Department General for Economic Diplomacy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (UKRAINE);
Alar Teras – Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications of the Republic of Estonia, Department of Information Society Services Development (ESTONIA);
Yaroslav Hadzalo – President of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine (UKRAINE);
Gvidas Kerusauskas – Ambassador-at-Large of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania (LITHUANIA);
Darius Skusevičius - Ambassador-at-Large for the Coordination of Recovery and Reconstruction of Ukraine, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania (LITHUANIA);
Vytautas Grubliauskas – Chair of the Committee, Member of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania; Head of the Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with the Republic of Türkiye (LITHUANIA);
Valdemaras Sarapinas – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Lithuania to Ukraine (LITHUANIA);
Zynovii Hoshovskyi – Chargé d'Affaires of Ukraine in Turkmenistan, Embassy of Ukraine in Turkmenistan (UKRAINE);
Arnur Tanbay – Adviser, Embassy of Kazakhstan in Ukraine (KAZAKHSTAN);
Katarzyna Kalinowska – Secretary of the Economic Department of the Embassy of Poland in Ukraine (POLAND);
Serik Akhmetov– General Director of Port Kuryk LLP (KAZAKHSTAN);
Leila Batyrbekova – Deputy Secretary General of the International Association “Trans-Caspian International Transport Route” (KAZAKHSTAN);
M. Suat Hacisalihoğlu – Chairman of the Trabzon Chamber of Commerce and Industry, President of the Black Sea Cruise Platform (TURKEY);
Raisa Vozhehova – Director of the Institute of Climate-Oriented Agriculture of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (UKRAINE);
Viktor HUSIEV – Rector of Kherson State Maritime Academy (UKRAINE);
Heikki Koivisto – Authorized Representative of the International Association of Maritime Universities (FINLAND);
Arturas Razbadauskas – Rector of the Klaipeda University (LITHUANIA);
Inga Zaleniene – Rector of the Mykolas Romeris University (LITHUANIA);
Serhii Panchenko – Rector of Ukrainian State University of Railway Transport (UKRAINE);
Valentyn Chymshyr – Director of the Danube Institute of the National University “Odesa Maritime Academy” (UKRAINE);
Yaroslav Zhalilo – President of the Center for Anti-Crisis Research, Deputy Director of the National Institute for Strategic Studies (UKRAINE);
Rima Mickiene – Deputy Director for Academic Affairs, Lithuanian Maritime Academy (LITHUANIA);
Blagovest Belev – Scientific Secretary, Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy (BULGARIA);
Dariusz Kijanka – Pomeranian Development Agency, Department of Entrepreneurship Development (POLAND);
Viktor Popov – Honorary Consul of the Republic of Lithuania in Kherson region (UKRAINE);
Erlandas Galaguz – Mayor of Visaginas (LITHUANIA);
Mykhailo Linetskyі – Kherson District Military Administration (UKRAINE);
Rimantas Vaisvalavičius – Associate Professor, Professor, Doctor of DSc, Vytautas Magnus University Agriculture Academy (LITHUANIA);
Eustachio Tarasco – Associate Professor, Department of the Soil, Plant and Food Sciences, University of Bari Aldo Moro (ITALY);
Dmytro Zhminko – Chairman of the Board of Directors, British-Ukrainian U-PORT GROUP;
Viktor Sokha – Director, Dnipro Cargo Ltd. (UNITED KINGDOM – UKRAINE);
Dariusz Pawliszczy – Voit of Gmina Gromadka in Boleslawiec county, Lower Silesian Voivodship (POLAND);
Vitalii Rusan – Chief Consultant of the Economic Strategy Department at the Center for Economic and Social Research, National Institute for Strategic Studies (UKRAINE);
Yurii Kiriiak – Head of the Kherson Regional Centre for Hydrometeorology (UKRAINE);
Svitlana Linnyk – Acting Mayor of Hola Prystan (UKRAINE).
• Ambassadors and representatives of the Embassies of the EU, Lithuania, Poland, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Moldova, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan;
• Members of parliament, representatives of the national and local government authorities;
• Representatives of science and business.
Already in the first years of its existence the Forum has become one of the most effective platforms for initiating and supporting joint projects in various fields across territories of the Baltic and Black Sea countries. The consolidation of the partnership format of a joint, turn-based holding in the Ukrainian city of Kherson and the Lithuanian city of Klaipeda has significantly increased the level and quality of the projects being submitted to the discussion, greatly expanded the list of strategic development issues that are being submitted for consideration. The opportunity for the participants of the Baltic-Black Sea Economic Forum to discuss the joint projects on its Lithuanian and Ukrainian venues significantly minimizes the risks of making unreasonable decisions, promotes their qualitative preparation and shortens the transition to the stage of practical implementation. Thanks to the opportunities offered by the forum's platforms, a project to create a corridor of multi-faceted cooperation from the Baltic Klaipeda through the territory of Belarus to the Ukrainian Kherson and further through the Black Sea to the port city of Trabzon in Turkey, the territory of Georgia and Azerbaijan to the port of Baku on the Caspian Sea was initiated. Experts from a number of countries have already recognized this project as having a geopolitical significance not only for the regions and countries of the Baltic and Black Sea basins through which it will pass, but for other countries of Europe and Asia. This project became not only a demonstration of the existing opportunities of forum venues for the effective initiation of such large-scale projects, but also became an additional catalyst for the preparation and introduction of joint initiatives and strategic development issues in various fields. This is not only the implementation of the experience of reforming and developing the port of Klaipeda when preparing a project for implementing a similar model of public-private partnership on reforming and developing the Kherson ICP, but also discussing the world experience of strategic planning of cities development and its use by the municipal authorities of Klaipeda, the initiative to create a single international logistics center, consideration of issues related to modern trends of sports development both professional and mass, many others projects and topical issues. Due to the Baltic-Black Sea Economic Forum not only cooperation between the cities of Kherson and Klaipeda has been developing actively and in various fields but by signing a large-scale agreement cooperation between the cities of Kherson (Ukraine) and Batumi (Georgia) was launched. It was the platform of the forum that witnessed the historic event for Lithuania and Ukraine: for the first time an agreement on partnership between settlements was signed for two countries the Ukrainian village Muzykivka and Lithuanian city Dusetos.
29, Pavlivska Str.,
Kyiv, 01135, Ukraine;
18, Mykhailivska Str.,
Kherson, 73025, Ukraine
E-mail: skif@bgc.kherson.ua
