UNCTAD sessions have provided an opportunity for United Nations Member States to work together to redress economic inequalities in trade, finance, technology and investment. Today, with a global trade slowdown and declines in commodity prices, this issue is again a hot button development issue. But beyond trade, a bigger and more complex set of questions challenges the international community. Vulnerability today derives not only from volatile markets, or from social instability, but also from a fragile global environment weakened by climate change. - said Ban Ki-moon - Secretary General of the United Nations, while opening the UNCTAD14 session in Nairobi, Kenia.

Security is not a commodity, security is a value. Every citizen and every society deserves to be safe. The key role of NATO is to defend peace – said Andrzej Duda, President of the Republic of Poland, during the opening of the Warsaw Summit Experts’ Forum. The event was held at the National Stadium in Warsaw as a part of the NATO summit organised between July 8-9, 2016. According to President Duda, the fear of losing global peace – peace that we have known so far – is growing. Therefore, it is crucial to strengthen our potential for deterrence within the NATO alliance. Małgorzata Bonikowska, President of CIR, and Janusz Onyszkiewicz, CIR expert and former Polish Minister of National Defence also took part in the event.

Dialogue is the axis of the Polish-German relations. Instead of discussing the dissymmetry of Polish-German relations we should talk about interdependency. – said Janusz Reiter, Founder of CIR, Chairman of the Foundation Board and the former Polish ambassador to Germany, during the opening of the Polish-German Energy Forum on the 14th of July in Warsaw. Michał Kurtyka – the Deputy Minister for Polish energy sector, Rainer Baake- German Deputy Minister for economy and energy, Konrad Szymański – the Secretary of State for European affairs in the Polish Ministry of Foreign Relations and other representatives of Polish and German energy sector took part in the debate.