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12.02.2024
YES and Victor Pinchuk Foundation to Host the 7th Ukrainian Lunch on the Margins of the Munich Security Conference
On 17 February 2024, on the margins of the Munich Security Conference, Yalta European Strategy (YES) and the Victor Pinchuk Foundation will host the 7th Munich Ukrainian Lunch, titled 2024 - It's In Our Hands.
How the war in Ukraine ends will not only impact European security. It will determine the global position of Europe, the West, and countries worldwide opting for freedom and democracy. The war's outcome hinges on decisions Ukraine's allies take now, in the coming months. Will they decide to give enough support quickly enough?
The Ukrainian Lunch will focus on what is needed now. How can the necessary support be provided in a volatile global environment, with many of Ukraine's supporters engulfed in internal political challenges?
Among the speakers of the discussion will be Petr Pavel, President of the Czech Republic; Kaja Kallas, Prime Minister of the Republic of Estonia; Alexander De Croo, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Belgium; Mette Frederiksen, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Denmark; Anne Applebaum, Staff Writer, The Atlantic; Senior Fellow, Agora Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies; Pulitzer Prize Winner 2004; Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State of the United States (2009-2013), Professor of International and Public Affairs, School of International and Public Affairs; David H. Petraeus, General, US Army (Ret.), Chairman, KKR Global Institute; former Director of the CIA; former Commander of the Surge in Iraq and Coalition Forces in Afghanistan. The discussion will be moderated by Zanny Minton Beddoes, Editor-in-Chief of The Economist.
On 17 February at 13:30 (GMT+1), watch the online streaming of the Munich Ukrainian Lunch on the YouTube channel of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation.
For the seventh time, the Munich Ukrainian Lunch will serve as a platform for global and Ukrainian decision-makers to discuss Ukraine’s security and its implications for Europe and the international order. Among speakers in previous years have been Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of the Czech Republic Petr Pavel, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Sweden Ulf Kristersson, Deputy Prime Minister of Canada Chrystia Freeland, Prime Minister of Albania Edi Rama, Prime Minister of Estonia Kaja Kallas, Prime Minister of the Republic of Finland (2019-2023) Sanna Marin, as well as experts like David Petraeus, Robert Gates, Zanny Minton Beddoes, Anne Applebaum, James Mattis and others.
Over the past five decades, the Munich Security Conference (MSC) has become the major global forum for the discussion of security policy. Each February, it brings together more than 500 senior decision-makers from around the world, including heads-of-state, ministers, leading personalities of international and non-governmental organizations, as well as high-ranking representatives of industry, media, academia, and civil society, to engage in an intensive debate on current and future security challenges.
