Podiumsdiskussion: Neue Geopolitik und Wirtschaftskooperation im Südkaukasus
am 22. April 2010 in Berlin

Podium Discussion

New Geopolitics and Economic Cooperation in the South Caucasus. A View from Azerbaijan
Thursday, April 22nd 2010, 12:30 – 14:30 DGAP,Rauchstraße 17, Berlin-Tiergarten

Welcome Address
Prof. Dr. Eberhard Sandschneider, Director, Research Institute, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)
Dr. Elkhan Nuriyev, Director, Center for Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Speakers:
Dr. Elkhan Nuriyev, Director, Center for Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan
Karl-Georg Wellmann, MP, Foreign Affairs Committee, Bundestag
Asim Mollazadeh, MP, National Assembly of Azerbaijan
Johannes Regenbrecht, Head of the Unit for South Caucasus and Central Asia, German Federal Foreign Office (requested)
Dr. Uwe Halbach, Senior Research Fellow, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP)
Dr. Dagmar Linder, Managing Director, Deutsche Bank AG

Chair:
Alexander Rahr, Program Director Russia / Eurasia, DGAP

The South Caucasus region is firmly included in the EU’s Eastern Partnership. The relations between NATO/EU and the three Caucasian Republics Georgia, Armenia
and Azerbaijan could improve and grow – beyond energy issues. The West supports the negotiations about the opening of the border between Turkey and Armenia, works for a peaceful solution for the “frozen conflicts” in Nagorno-Karabakh and hopes to de-escalate the Russian-Georgian conflict over Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
Economic cooperation could become a tool for normalising relations in the region.