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Iran and the West: How Does it End? A Lunch Conversation with Ambassador Dennis Ross February 02, 2012 / Brussels
On February 2, 2012, the GMF Brussels office hosted Ambassador Dennis Ross to discuss the latest developments between Iran and the West.
"Egypt has gone through a huge transformation in the past year and mostly it's been peaceful and coherent... but they've hit a tough point where real relations of power are being negotiated."
“Instead of the Keystone XL Pipeline being about cheaper access to oil for all Americans, it became about better access for some and more expensive access for others.”
Bucharest
The Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation
The German Marshall Fund of the United States
B-dul Primaverii nr. 50
Corp 6 “Casa Mica”
Sector 1
Bucharest, Romania
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Tel: +40 21 314 16 28
Fax: +40 21 319 32 74
E-mail: BlackSeaTrust@gmfus.org
The Bucharest office, led by Alina Inayeh, serves as the headquarters for the Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation (BST). In order to harness the tremendous civic energy that exists within the wider Black Sea region as a force for regional integration and good governance, the German Marshall Fund created the Black Sea Trust, a multi-million dollar, 10+-year grantmaking initiative. A public-private partnership modeled on the successful Balkan Trust for Democracy (BTD), the Black Sea Trust works collaboratively with a range of donors to provide grants to indigenous organizations working to strengthen regional cooperation, civil society, and democratic foundations. Initial donors to the Black Sea Trust included GMF, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the Ministry of Defence of Latvia, and the Romanian government. The countries to included in the Black Sea Trust’s work are Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Moldova, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine, and the regions of Russia bordering on the Black Sea. Initially, the majority of grants were directed toward recipients in the South Caucasus, Ukraine, and Moldova.
The Black Sea Trust funds programs that strengthen cross-border ties, civic participation, democratic governance, and the rule of law in the wider Black Sea region. The broad goals of the Black Sea Trust include building trust among citizens in their public institutions and to strengthen this critical set of institutions; affirming the value of citizen participation in the democratic process; and fostering regional, cross-border ties in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. The Black Sea Trust will have three primary grantmaking programs: Civic Participation, Cross-Border Initiatives, and Eastern Links. The Bucharest office also works on traditional GMF programming and had the lead in organizing the Bucharest Conference alongside the Bucharest NATO Summit in 2008.
