Bucharest 9 Joint Assessment for Common Understanding

16.12.2019, 15:00 – 18:00

Centrum Prasowe Foksal, Dom Dziennikarza, Foksal 3/5

00-370 Warsaw | Poland

The Warsaw Institute Review and Warsaw Institute invite you to join the Bucharest 9 Joint Assessment for Common Understanding Initiation Event. The Warsaw Institute Review has organized a special summit, which gathers diplomats, experts and soft power representatives from all B9 institutions:

Keynote Speakers

National Security Bureau of the Republic of Poland

H.E. Mr. Dariusz Gwizdała, Deputy Head

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland

Ms. Anna Tyszkiewicz, Deputy Director of the Security Policy Department

Embassy of Romania in Warsaw

H.E. Ovidiu Dranga, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Romania

Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Warsaw

H.E. Eduardas Borisovas, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Lithuania

Panel Discussion

Panel with institutions from each of the B9 countries

Participation of each of the Embassies of B9 countries in Warsaw

Baltic Defence College (Estonia)

Dr. Sandis Sraders, Faculty Member

Baltic Security Foundation (Latvia)

Mr. Olevs Nikers, President

Military Academy of Lithuania

Dr. Nortautas Statkus, Director

European Values Center for Security Policy (Czech Republic)

Mr. Martin Svárovský, Head of the Security Strategies Programme

Slovak Security Policy Institute

Mr. Peter Koles, Antipropaganda.sk Editor-in-Chief

Századvég Foundation

Mr. Csaba Faragó, Head of Foreign Affairs

New Strategy Centre (Romania)

Brig. Gen. (r) Mircea Mindrescu, Associate Expert

Center for the Study of Democracy (Bulgaria)

Dr. Rumena Filipova, Research Fellow

Center for European Policy Analysis (USA)

Col. (r) Ray Wojcik, CEPA Warsaw Director

Note: Geographically arranged approximately from north to south

Moderator: Dr. Tomasz Pawłuszko, Lecturer

Military University of Land Forces, Wrocław (Poland)

Coordinator: The Warsaw Institute Review (Poland)

Mr. Alexander Wielgos, Advisor and B9 JACU Coordinator

The concept is simple but daring. We need a network of think tanks and research institutes, one from each of the B9 countries, to each bring a better understanding of each country’s unique perspective, as well as combined analyses of challenges we all face, in both complex and hybrid threats, and those more conventional – together with the support from each of the Embassies of the B9 countries, as well as the National Security Bureau of the Republic of Poland and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, this is exactly what is happening.

The Bucharest Nine: Joint Assessment for Common Understanding, or B9 JACU, is convening in Warsaw on the afternoon of Monday, 16 December 2019, and be sure to also contribute your insights, your thoughts, and to play your role in this incredible and entirely unprecedented project.

Representatives of each of the Embassies of the B9 states will be present.

The team at the Warsaw Institute Review (WIR) and the Warsaw Institute (WI) is looking forward to seeing you there!