The Council of Europe is an international organisation with the goal of upholding human rights,democracy and the rule of law in Europe. Founded in 1949,it brings together 46 member states with a population of approximately 675 million as of 2023;it operates with an annual budget of approximately 500 million euros.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization,also called the North Atlantic Alliance,is an intergovernmental military alliance of 32 member states—30 European and 2 North American. Established in the aftermath of World War II,the organization implements the North Atlantic Treaty,signed in Washington,D.C.,on 4 April 1949. NATO is a collective security system:its independent member states agree to defend each other against attacks by third parties. During the Cold War,NATO operated as a check on the threat posed by the Soviet Union. The alliance remained in place after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact,and has been involved in military operations in the Balkans,the Middle East,South Asia and Africa. The organization's motto is animus in consulendo liber. The organization's strategic concepts include deterrence.
The Atlantic Council is an American think tank in the field of international affairs,favoring Atlanticism,founded in 1961. It manages sixteen regional centers and functional programs related to international security and global economic prosperity. It is headquartered in Washington,D.C. It is a member of the Atlantic Treaty Association.
Robert Nicholas Burns is an American diplomat and academic who has been serving as the United States ambassador to China since 2022.
Benjamin Arthur Gilman was an American politician and Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Middletown,New York,from January 3,1973,to January 3,2003.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is the parliamentary arm of the Council of Europe,a 46-nation international organisation dedicated to upholding human rights,democracy and the rule of law.
The NATO Parliamentary Assembly serves as the consultative interparliamentary organisation for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). It consists of delegates from the parliaments of the 32 NATO member countries as well as from associate and partner countries. Its current President is MichałSzczerba from Poland,elected in 2023. Its current Secretary General is Ruxandra Popa,who has been in this position since January 2020.
Marieluise Beck is a German politician who served as member of the Alliance '90/The Greens group in the Bundestag until 2017. She was also a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
Pierre Lellouche,is a lawyer and geopolitics specialist,recognized as a right-wing political figure in France. He is also known for his work as a columnist and author. Elected as a deputy in Sarcelles in 1993,he subsequently represented the 4th constituency of Paris from 1997 until his appointment as Secretary of State for European Affairs in June 2009. In November 2010,Lellouche was appointed Secretary of State for Foreign Trade in the Fillon III government,a position he held until the end of Nicolas Sarkozy's presidency in May 2012. He was re-elected as a deputy for the 1st constituency of Paris in June 2012,serving until April 2017,when he retired from elective politics. Since then,he has continued his career as a lawyer,geopolitics consultant,member of influential think tanks,and columnist.
The Republic of India recognised Ukraine as a sovereign country in December 1991 following the dissolution of the Soviet Union and established diplomatic relations in January 1992. The Indian Embassy in Kyiv was opened in May 1992 and Ukraine opened its Mission in New Delhi in February 1993. The Consulate General of India in Odesa functioned from 1962 until its closure in March 1999.
Emanuelis Zingeris is a Lithuanian philologist,museum director,politician,signatory of the 1990 Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania,currently serving as a Member of the Seimas,chairman of its foreign affairs committee,Vice President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and President of the Parliamentary Forum of the Community of Democracies. A Lithuanian Jew,he has been director of the Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum,honorary chairman of Lithuania's Jewish community,and is Chairman of the International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania. He is a founding signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism,that proposed the establishment of the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism.
Kurt Douglas Volker is an American diplomat who served as George W. Bush's last U.S. Ambassador to NATO. Later he served as executive director of the McCain Institute for International Leadership and in a volunteer capacity as Donald J. Trump's U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine until his resignation on September 27,2019.
Jürgen Hardt is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has served as a member of the Bundestag since 2009.
Oleksander Yakovych Shulhyn was a Ukrainian politician,academic,and diplomat who played a key role in establishing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. He was a member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society,a professor of the Ukrainian Free University in Prague,a member of the Ukrainian delegation at the Paris Peace Conference,1919 and a representative of Ukrainians in International Refugee Organization after World War II. During World War II Shulhyn acted as head of the Government of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile.
Michael Georg Link is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has served a member of the Bundestag from 2005 to 2013 and again since 2017. In addition to his parliamentary mandate,he has been serving as the Coordinator of Transatlantic Cooperation at the Federal Foreign Office in the coalition government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 2022.
Annalena Charlotte Alma Baerbock is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens party serving as Germany's minister for foreign affairs since 2021.
Aurore Lalucq is a French economist and politician of the Place Publique party who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2019.
George P. Kent is an American diplomat. He is ambassador to Estonia since February 21,2023. George Kent served as deputy assistant secretary of state for the European and Eurasian Affairs from 2018 to 2021. As a United States Foreign Service officer,his early service has included assignments in the U.S. diplomatic missions to Poland,Thailand and Uzbekistan. In 2004,he was assigned to serve as deputy political counselor in Kyiv,Ukraine,and was deputy chief of mission in Kyiv from 2015 to 2018.
Catherine M. Croft is a United States Department of State official who has served as a special advisor for Ukraine both in the State Department and on the United States National Security Council. Croft testified in closed-door hearings before the House Intelligence,Oversight and Foreign Affairs committees in October 2019.
Sandra Regol is a French politician of EELV who has been serving as Member of Parliament for Bas-Rhin's 1st constituency since the 2022 elections.
