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envisage передбачати

to team up об'єднатися

to mark the important event відзначити важливу подію

Exercise 2. Analyse speeches of Michel Duray. Comment on his command of English and Ukrainian.
Analyse the usage of lexical units, grammatical structures and pragmatic problems.

Interviewer: we're here with Michel Duray, director of the NATO information and documentation centre
in Ukraine. Mr. Duray, the NATO information and documentation centre (NIDC) in Ukraine will be 10 years in
may 2007. How would you sum up the history of this centre?

Duray: good morning. I would try to sum up as quick as possible, but although it is a very long story.
And first of all I would like to pay tribute to the first director of the NATO information and documentation
centre, Ambassador Roman Lishchynski, who left us in the position of director of information and
documentation centre. And without him at the very beginning in place, it would have been very difficult to start
and to launch this operation. Secondly I would say that the history of this centre has been accompanying the
history of the relationship and the most intense moments I would say were in '99 when one of my predecessors
was trying to explain the Kosovan operation and the NATO military actions during the Kosovan war. And the
second most intense moment was maybe in 2004 I would say during the so-called Orange Revolution. Still it was
an important political moment for Ukraine.

Interviewer: okay. What are the main challenges as of today?

Duray: the main challenges I would say are still dealing with information and public diplomacy first of all
as far as we are concerned. There are still a lot of stereotypes and myths amongst the Ukrainian society, although
I would say the Ukrainian capital is not using these myths anymore. So these myths are still very strong within
the regional society and the biggest challenge for us is to try to influence these myths with augmentations and
explaining what we are. The second challenge is to explain what the new NATO is since most of the Ukrainian
population has not yet had an access during the recent years, free and fair access to the information on what the
NATO is. This access has really started I would say two years ago and it is important now that we continue to
explain NATO's transformations and NATO's agenda first of all to the Ukrainian policy-makers and to the
Ukrainian population. The third challenge I would say is to make the difference between having an information
policy and an information strategy on NATO and on security issues related to NATO and having an explanation
on membership. We are not in Ukraine to sell memberships. We are in Ukraine to explain what NATO is
basically and this is a very, very tough challenge, a day to day challenge.

Interviewer: what are the main priorities for NATO public diplomacy in Ukraine in 2007 and what are
the key messages that you would envisage?

Duray: I would say that the key priorities are to continue what we have been doing. It means to sell the
NATO, explaining NATO operations; to concentrate on NATO issues and not only on NATO-Ukraine issues. I
guess that the Ukrainian government itself, as it has been mentioned on several occasions by the prime ministers
and by other ministers, has to develop oneself the information campaign to the population, the broad information
campaign. Of course we are ready to team up with our Ukrainian partners as we always do in various spheres,
such as in the defence reform sphere where NATO and Ukraine are teaming up to have the best value for money

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