- Sergey Ryabkov, Director of the European Cooperation Department, the Ministry for Foreign affairs of the Russian Federation. - Evgeny Lukyanov, Deputy Plenipotentiary Envoy of the President of the Russian Federation to the North-West Federal District - Marc Franco, Ambassador, Head of the European Commission Delegation to Russia - Halldór Ásgrímsson, Secretary General of the Nordic Council of Ministers - Sergey Yastrzhembsky, Aide to the President of the Russian Federation, Special Representative for the President of the Russian Federation for Issues of the Development of Relations with the European Union