Representatives of Institute Alternative, Jovana Marović and Dina Bajramspahić, participated in the Conference organized by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Slovenia’s membership in NATO.
On Thursday, 3rd of April, starting at 12:30 pm, the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia organized a press conference and a cocktail on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Slovenia’s membership in North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Other countries which joined NATO the same year as Slovenia – Romania, Bulgaria, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, marked the 10th anniversary of accession, as well.
The following speakers addressed the audience:
- Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia, H.E. Vladimir Gasparič;
- Ambassador of the Slovak Republic, H.E. František Lipka;
- Ambassador of the Republic of Bulgaria, H.E. Mladen Tcherveniakov;
- Ambassador of the Republic of Romania, H.E. Ferdinand Nagy;
- Deputy Ambassador of the Republic of Romania, Tudor Dimitru.
The conference addressed transformation, experiences, benefits and commitments of membership to NATO, as well as assessments of the level of implemented reform of the security sector in Montenegro and compliance with the NATO standards. In this regard, the necessity of further reform of intelligence service was particularly emphasized.
“NATO believes that Montenegro should invest continuous efforts in the field of civilian intelligence service in order to achieve that level of confidence required for sharing information relevant for security, terrorism, cyber terrorism,” said Ambassador Lipka, and added that “NATO conducted the screening of the intelligence sector and recommended for changes to be made. This is currently being worked on and there are positive prospects that the reform process will be completed by June this year.” He reminded that on July 24th and 25th, the foreign ministers of member states of the Alliance will assess progress reports of the four aspirant countries. On the basis of these reports a decision will be made whether the further NATO enlargement will be on the agenda of the Summit in Wales, which will take place in September this year.
