Photo: Mr. Georgiou meets the Secretary General of NATO Jaap de Hoop Scheffer.

The Bucharest Conference will be held alongside the official 2008 NATO Summit, and continuing the success of the Istanbul Conference in 2004 and the Riga Conference in 2006, the Bucharest Conference provides a forum for leading policymakers, opinion leaders, scholars, and business people from both sides of the Atlantic to discuss the most pressing issues facing NATO and the international community.

As NATO steps up to tackle issues such as enlargement, missile defense, and Russia at the NATO Summit in Bucharest, the Bucharest Conference provides an open platform for frank dialogue on those issues currently on the alliance agenda.

The Conference will include keynote addresses by Romanian President Traian Băsescu, Romanian Prime Minister Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu, and American President George W. Bush, as well as other panel discussions on pressing NATO issues. Afghan President Hamid Karzai, NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, and Stephen Harper will also discuss alliance operations in Afghanistan on an April 2 panel.

Featured speakers and panelists will include Ellen Tauscher, Chairwoman of the U.S. House Strategic Forces Subcommittee, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan, and Estonian President Toomas Ilves, among others. These figures and many more will address an audience of internationally recognized policymakers, officials, scholars, and business leaders.

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