New Challenges - Better Capabilities

For a couple of days, Bratislava is going to be the centre of the global security discussion this week. An important accompanying conference will be held within the informal NATO Defence Ministers Meeting as well. Besides the NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and the Supreme Allied Commander Europe Admiral Stavridis, number of NATO Defense Ministers, Ambassadors to the NATO, senators, and members of parliament of the Central European countries, well-known analysts from Europe and the United States as well as journalists from popular media such as The Economist or The Financial Times will be attending. Thereby, the elite of the international security community will come together.

“New challenges – Better capabilities“ conference that is about to take place on 21st – 22nd October 2009 in Bratislava, is going to deal with the most pressing security topics of the present. Obama Administration’s changes in the approach towards the anti-ballistic shield in the Central Europe, future of the NATO-Russia relations, NATO mission in Afghanistan, nuclear disarmament or financial crisis and its implications on defence budgets, this is just a fragment of the issues which will be discussed by the participants from more than 30 countries. The new NATO Strategic Concept, in the creation of which Slovakia participates for the first time will be one of the key topics.

Thanks to its extent, format and participation, „New Challenges – Better Capabilities“ conference will become the greatest foreign policy and security conference  in the history of the Slovak Republic organized by the non-governmental organization. More than 450 participants from many countries of the Euro-Atlantic region have confirmed their attendance so far.

The conference will take place in the historic building of the National Council of the Slovak Republic in Bratislava. It is organized by the Slovak Atlantic Commission in cooperation with the Ministry of Defence of the Slovak Republic, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic and NATO Public Diplomacy Division. Life-stream on www.ncbc.sk will be available.
 
Bratislava, October 20, 2009
Slovak Atlantic Commission
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