The Council for Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) (Ukrainian

Ukrainian language

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: Рада із зовнішньої та безпекової політики) is a non-governmental research organization focusing on the Ukrainian national and foreign security policy to develop well-grounded recommendations for the current government of Ukraine

Ukraine

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, non-governmental associations, as well as foreign states and societies. The CFSP was established on December 15, 2009 in Kiev

Kiev

Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....

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Members

The Council brings together Ukrainian national security and foreign policy experts. The CFSP’s Head is Volodymyr Horbulin

Volodymyr Horbulin

Volodymyr Horbulin Volodymyr Horbulin Volodymyr Horbulin (Ukrainian: Володимир Павлович Горбулін, (born 17 January 1939) is a Ukrainian statesman and politician, Head of the Council for Foreign and Security Policy, former secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, former...

, former Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine

National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine

National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine , locally referred by its abbreviation RNBO, is an organizational state body in Ukraine tasked with developing national security policy on domestic and international matters in advising the President of Ukraine .The Council was originally created in...

, member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Other CFSP members include:

• Oleksandr V. Lytvynenko, Dr. of Political Sciences;

• Victor V. Zamiatin, Honoured Journalist of Ukraine, editor.

Activity

The CFSP’s mission is ensuring social democratic development of Ukraine as an important European state. Its key activities and tasks cover:

• assistance with arrangement and delivery of analytical and scientific research on the foreign policy and Ukraine’s national security;

• rallying of the Ukrainian expert community for foreign and security policy;

• analytical-expert and scientific forecasting support to foreign and security policy solutions;

• elaboration and specialized expertise of draft foreign and security policy regulations;

• improvement of the professional level of Ukrainian experts and specialists in foreign and security policy, extension of respective knowledge to wide public through organization and conduction of conferences, round tables, workshops, summer and winter courses, trainings and other public events, speeches in mass media;

• encouragement of the democratic civil control over activity of state agencies developing and implementing foreign and security policy;

• establishing and maintaining international contacts with expert communities for foreign and security policy of other states;

• publishing activity.

The first large-scale project of the Council for Foreign and Security Policy is the International Security Forum “From Ukrainian Security to European Security. 21st Century Challenges” which was held in Lviv

Lviv

Lviv is a city in western Ukraine. The city is regarded as one of the main cultural centres of today's Ukraine and historically has also been a major Polish and Jewish cultural center, as Poles and Jews were the two main ethnicities of the city until the outbreak of World War II and the following...

on April 15-16, 2010.

Publications

Reinvigorating the Ukrainian Republic, Volodymyr Horbulin, 02 February 2010, Business Ukraine Online

European Security: Possible Way to Mitigate Challenges and Threats, Volodymyr Horbulin, Oleksandr Lytvynenko, Dzerkalo Tyzhnia newspaper, No. 43 (771) 7 - 13 November 2009, English translation - CFSP web-site

External links

Official web-site of the Council for Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP)