| Dr Sev Ozdowski AM, Director of Equity and Diversity invites you to the Open Forum "International Security and Power Relations Today - Emerging Threats", 23rd March 2017, 5,30 for 6 pm start, Parramatta South Campus, Female Orphan School, Building EZ, with Special Guest Speaker Dr Janusz Onyszkiewicz, Chairman, International Centre for Democratic Transition (Budapest).
Dr Onyszkiewicz's visit is sponsored by AIPA.
Registration: westernsydney.edu.au/equity_diversity/rsvp or phone 9678 7374.
Dr Janusz Onyszkiewicz is an influential expert in international security. He is a
former Vice-President of the European Parliament and Vice President of its
Foreign Relations Committee. He was Defence Minister of the Republic of Poland
in two separate post -1989 governments. Currently, he is an Executive Board
member of the UK-based European Leadership Network and the Chairman of the
International Center for Democratic Transition (Budapest).
He has been monitoring elections in Ukraine, Egypt and Georgia on behalf of the
US –based National Democratic Institute. J. Onyszkiewicz is a distinguished
human rights activist. In the historic year of 1989, he was the spokesperson for
the Solidarity delegation to the Round Table negotiations that paved the way to
the demise of communism in Poland and Central Europe.
He is a recipient of numerous international awards and honors including the
Legion d’Honour (France).
Russia is emerging as the new destabilising force on the international scene. It has increasingly
shown disdain for fundamental standards and norms in international relations as exemplified by
its policy towards Georgia and Ukraine. It has developed a new military doctrine which drastically
lowers the threshold for use of nuclear weapons. What is the role of Russia-dominated Collective
Security Treaty Organisation and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation? Are we going to see
another “Yalta type” agreements between great powers dividing the world into separate spheres
of influence?
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