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Monday, July 12, 04 Dr. George Maior State Secretary and chief of Department for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Defence Policy will participate to the international seminary “ USA Repositioning and NATO’s Transformation: Implications for Southeastern Europe and Black Sea Region”. The event is developed between July 12 and 13, 04 in the Marble Hall of the Palace of the National Military Cercle in Bucharest. The Romanian dignitary will deliver a speech on the strategic importance of the Black Sea and the significance of redislocation of some US bases in Romania.
The activity is organized by the Institute for Political Studies of Defence and Military History in cooperation with the Institute of National Strategic Studies of the University of National Defence, Washington DC, the European Center for Studies of Security “George C. Marshall”, Germany and the Euro-Atlantic Society “Manfred Worner” Romania.
The important issues to be debated in plenary sections and panels will be mainly on: the characteristics of the environment of security in the Southeastern Europe and the Black Sea region; NATO enlargement and transformation; lessons learnt by the new allies and partners; US military presence in Europe; evolution of the Partnership for Peace; NATO-EU relations and the implications on the security within the Caucasus area.
Political and military personalities, experts and researchers from 18 NATO members and partners, the Institute for National Strategic Studies, the European Center for Studies of Security “George C. Marshall”, EUCOM and Center for Democratic Control of the Armed Forces from Geneva, representatives of NGOs will participate to this seminar.
Dep. for Euro-Atlantic Integration
and Defense Policy