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2014 - Children's Foundation of Ukraine 2013 – NSO and OPO 2012 – Mission Blue

10th Forum, Tbilisi, Georgia 17-20 June 2015 9th Forum, Vienna, Austria 27-29 June 2014 8th Forum, Kiev-Odessa, Ukraine 26-29 June 2013 7th Forum, Yerevan, Armenia 6-8 June 2012 6th Forum Almaty, Kazakhstan 22-24 June 2011 5th Forum Minsk, Belarus 23-25 June 2010 4th Forum Kiev, Ukraine 24-26 June 2009 3rd Forum St. Petersburg, Russia 25-27 June 2008 2nd Forum Baku, Azerbaijan 20 – 22 June 2007 1st Forum Kiev, Ukraine 28-30 June 2006

Organizing Committee:

Co-Chairs:

Dr. Irina Paliashvili
President and Senior Counsel
RULG - Ukrainian Legal Group, P.A.

Mr. John Whittaker
Partner
Clyde & Co LLP

Mr. Dimitry Afanasiev
Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners

Social Initiatives Hall of Fame

In 2012, the CIS Local Counsel Forum and RULG proudly introduced our new environmental initiative, extending support to ocean conservation, protection, and restoration and presenting to the Forum's delegates and guests, one of the leading organizations in this field, Mission Blue. Our initiative coincided with World Oceans Day (June 8).

"With every breath we take, with every drop of water we drink we depend on the existence of Earth's living ocean. These are assets worth protecting as if our lives depend on them because in no small measure they do."

Sylvia A. Earle, PhD.
Founder, Mission Blue
Explorer-in-Residence,
National Geographic Society

You may listen to Sylvia Earle on the Oceans and download Dr. Earle's address to the CIS Forum in English and Russian.

We are grateful to all of the Forum's attendees for their attention and would like to applaud the three Delegates who most actively participated in this initiative:


Mr. Konstantin Christie Python & Peter Geneva, Switzerland	Dr. Cord-Georg Hasselmann Hengeler Mueller Partnerschaft von Rechtsanwälten Berlin, Germany	Mr. Gaya Sobolev Sobolev and Partners Legal Services, LLC Tver, Russia

We invite everyone to continue extending support to protecting our precious natural resources, including a major part of the Earth's ecosystem - the world's oceans.

You may learn more at Mission Blue's Web site.