Key representatives of international politics, security experts as well as journalists from prestigious foreign media will not be able to come to Bratislava because of the closures of the European air space.
The GLOBSEC 2010 Bratislava Security Conference is the most significant annual event of its kind in Central Europe. Among others, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria Nickolay Mladenov was supposed to make an appearance in the 5th year of the GLOBSEC conference. Members of the Group of Experts on the new Strategic Concept of NATO, Amb. Giancarlo Aragona and Amb. Marie Gervais-Vidricaire, key expert of the prestigious European think-tank European Council on Foreign Relations Daniel Korski, vice-president of the American think-tank Center for Strategic and International Studies Stephen Flanagan and many other personalities of the transatlantic security community were about to participate in the conference.
On Monday and Tuesday, politicians, professionals and intellectuals were supposed to discuss key security issues of this year: new European foreign policy, new Strategic Concept of NATO as well as the consequences of the global crisis on the redistribution of economic power in the world – questions that are crucial within the context of the European effort to maintain its position in the club of the most powerful international actors. The future role of NATO in Afghanistan that stands in the breakthrough year of its existence was about to be discussed as well.
However, higher power had afflicted this prestigious event, which has in the course of the last years integrated Bratislava among the prominent centres of security discussions in Europe. The Slovak Atlantic Commission apologized for the inconvenience and expressed its conviction that after negotiation with partners it will be able to set the new date of the conference in a short time.
Bratislava, April 18, 2010
autor: Slovak Atlantic Commission
