Speech of President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev at plenary session of Global Policy Forum 'The Modern State: Standards of Democracy and Criteria of Efficiency' in Yaroslavl, September 10, 2010

Meeting of President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev with leading Russian and foreign political analysts at Global Policy Forum 'The Modern State: Standards of Democracy and Criteria of Efficiency' took part on September 10, 2010

Global Policy Forum 'The Modern State: Standards of Democracy and Criteria of Efficiency' was held under patronage of President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev.

Yaroslavl, which celebrates its millennium in 2010, brought together influential statesmen and politicians, representatives of business community, including businessmen innovators; leaders of science and education; experts in the field of political science, economics and law from many countries.

Organizers of Global Policy Forum 'The Modern State: Standards of Democracy and Criteria of Efficiency' - are Institute of Public Designing, Institute of Modern Development, Yaroslavl State University named after PG Demidov.

Global Policy Forum continued the discussion started the International Conference 'Modern State and Global Security'  about the role and the place of modern states in ensuring safe and sustainable development. The International Conference was held September 14, 2009 in Yaroslavl with the participation of the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev , Prime Minister of France - F. Fillon  and Prime Minister of Spain H-L. Rodriguez Zapatero . The International Conference was attended by over 500 experts from 18 countries, 165 Russian and foreign media and 425 journalists covered the work process of the International Conference.

In the framework of Global Policy Forum worked of four sections are scheduled:

• The State as an Instrument of Technological Modernization ;
• Standards of Democracy and the Diversity of Democratic Experiences ;
• New Challenges and the Concept of International Law ;
• Regional Systems of Global Security .

Global Policy Forum worked for two days. 

The first day of the Forum on September, 9, 2010 opened an hour plenary session, after which the sections’ meeting began. September, 10, 2010 was dedicated to the scheduled plenary meetings, as well as Intersection panel on the Treaty on European Security . The second day of the Forum also contained presentations of the reports prepared for Global Policy Forum:

• “Modernization of Russia: from theory to practice” ;
• “Yaroslavl Roadmap 10-15-20: 10 years to implement, 15 steps to take, 20 pitfalls to avoid” ;
• “Russian Democracy: from sustainability to renewal” .

Global Policy Forum was held during the celebrations of the millennial anniversary of Yaroslavl. Guests and participants of Global Policy Forum took part in the ceremonial and cultural events of the hospitable Russian city, fairly called the Pearl of the Golden Ring of Russia .

Languages of Global Policy Forum were: Russian, English, Chinese, Korean, Italian, German, Portuguese, French and Japanese.