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George Cristian Maior State Secretary and chief of Department for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Defence Policy will open Wednesday, June 16,04 the international seminar “Defense and Security Reform in the Black Sea Region” at Marriott Hotel in Bucharest.
The seminar will join experts and factors of decision from more then 30 countries from Central and Eastern Europe, Balkans, Caucasus and other riveran states to the Black Sea. They will present their own lessons and the experience in the armed forces reform. During the works they will debates the reform of security and defence in the Black Sea countries; the impact of NATO and EU enlargement on the process of reform of the armed forces and the international defence cooperation.
The aims of the seminar are circumscribed to the Romanian policy of promoting the regional cooperation in the Black Sea region, a region of a special strategic importance in the present context of NATO and EU enlargement.
The event is organized under the aegis of the Ministry of National Defence and the Center for Democratic Control of the Armed Forces (DCAF) from Geneva. This is the third activity from a series of regional conferences initiated by DCAF for the 45 members of the Council of Foundation for promoting the exchange of experience and information on the defence reform between the participating states.
Dep. for Euro-Atlantic Integration
and Defense Policy