Participants
FINAL LIST OF PARTICIPANTS (Open document)
The following are amongst those invited to participate at this year's Forum:
- President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Dr Ilham Aliyev
- Prime Minister of Slovenia, Mr Janez Janša
- EU Commissioner for External Affairs, Dr Benita Ferrero Waldner
- Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia, Dr Dimitrij Rupel
- Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation of the Kingdom of the Belgium, OSCE Chairman in Office, Mr Karel De Gucht
- Vice Prime Minister/State Minister of Georgia on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, Mr George Baramidze
- Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, Mr Vartan Oskanian
- Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic, Mr Ján Kubiš
- First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Mr Andrej Ivanovich Denisov
- Deputy Assistant Secretary General of NATO for Security Cooperation and Partnership, Mr Robert Simmons
- Secretary-General United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Dr Supachai Panitchpakdi
- Secretary General of OPEC, Mr. Mohammed S. Barkindo
- President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Jean Lemierre
- President of OAO LUKOIL, Mr Vagit Alekperov
Other participants will include high level officials and business representatives (we are expecting around 150 of them), diplomats and experts from various universities, think tanks and research institutes from the Caspian region, Europe, the United States, the Russian Federation and beyond.