BRATISLAVA, September 13, (WEBNOVINY) — On Monday and Tuesday, Bratislava is hosting a number of high ranking foreign representatives, diplomats, security experts and prominent journalists within the GLOBSEC 2010 conference on security and foreign policy. The organizer of the annual event is the Slovak Atlantic Commission (SAC), headed by former Slovakia’s Ambassador to the U.S. Rastislav Kacer. According to the commission, this year’s fifth conference is the biggest in the history of the conference, informed Jana Chocholova for SAC.
“The strategic importance of this conference is underlined by political changes that have lately taken place in central Europe. Slovakia has recently assumed presidency in the Visegrad Group , while three new governments have been formed in central Europe: in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia. Moreover, already next year, two central European countries, Hungary and then Poland, will take over the Presidency of the European Union,” stated General Secretary of the Slovak Atlantic Commission Robert Vass.
The two-day program of the GLOBSEC conference is divided into seven blocks and two informal evening discussions. The participants will debate in particular current foreign political issues, with focus on security. One of the main topics is the contribution of the Lisbon Treaty to European diplomacy, while the conference will also devote attention to the prepared new NATO strategic concept, the complicated situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and impacts of the economic crisis on security and defense.
The most prominent guests at the conference will be heads of diplomacy of the Visegrad Group countries, including Slovakia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Mikulas Dzurinda. Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Marc Perrin de Brichambaut accepted an invitation to the conference, too.
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