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Devon Archer
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> From: vjeremic22@gmail.com
> Date: November 28, 2014 at 7:03:52 AM EST
> To: Aleksander Kwasniewski Warsaw <a.wnuk@kwasniewskialeksander.pl>
> Cc: Vadim Pozharskyi <v.pozharskyi.ukraine@gmail.com>, Devon Archer <darcher@rosemontseneca.com>, Vuk Jeremic <vuk.jeremic@cirsd.org>, Damjan Krnjevic <damjan.krnjevic@cirsd.org>
> Subject: Hello from Belgrade
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> ‎Dear President Kwasniewski,
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> Once again, it was truly great meeting you in Brussels a few weeks ago.‎ I hope all is well on your side.
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> Since then, we've had an enormously busy period of travel and hosted a number of events, including the first Climate Change and Green Economy ‎conference in our region and the world premiere launch of the new book by Jeff Sachs "The Age of Sustainable Development" (in Serbian - its English version will come out only in March 2015, believe it or not).
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> I hope you haven't forgotten about the deadline of December 1st, 2014, for your essay for the next issue of our thinktank's magazine "Horizons - Journal of International Relations and Sustainable Development", whose leading theme is Russia-West relations.
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> We'd like to make yours the head section's main piece, next to Sergey Lavrov's. They will be followed by essays from Joseph Nye, Wolfgang Ischinger,Tierry de Montbrial, Mario Monti, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, Lamberto Zannier and Dmitry Trenin, amongst others.
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> In other sections we're featuring essays from UNDP Administrator Hellen Clark, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, South Africa's President Jacob Zuma, Seychelles' President John Michel, Malaysia's and ‎Singapore's Foreign Ministers Anifah Aman and K Shanmugam, Lee Kuan Yew School's Dean Kishore Mahbubani...
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> Standard Horizons essays are 4-5,000 words long, and‎ the issue is supposed to go to print within the next couple of weeks. Therefore, we're eager to start processing your text‎ as soon as possible. I'm copying to this message Mr. Damjan Krnjevic, Horizons Editor, who stands ready to address all practical considerations.
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> We're also planning to organize a panel debate on Russia - West relations‎, to accompany the issue's launch.
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> It will be held on February 18th at 6.30pm at the Harvard Club of New York. It would be a Davos-style discussion, moderated by myself. We'd be truly delighted if your schedule is such that you could honor us with your participation.
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> Other panelists would be Columbia Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Harvard Professor Joseph Nye, former Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini and Russian Ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin.
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> In anticipation of your essay, and hoping to see you in New York in February,
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> Yours truly,
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> Vuk Jeremic
> President of CIRSD
> Former President of UN General Assembly and Serbian Foreign Minister
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> PS for your reference, I'm attaching to this email some basic information about our Center for International Realtions and Sustainable Development (CIRSD), as well as a pdf of the first few pages of the innaugural issue of "Horizons"‎.
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