NATO Enlargement Conference 20-21 Nov 2006, Croatia

London, United Kingdom, September 29, 2006 --(PR.com)-- As NATO looks ahead to welcome new members in 2008 and beyond, SMi brings you the third event in their prestigious NATO Enlargement Conference series.

This event has been expressly designed to attract the most senior military and government decision-makers in order to gain an essential and holistic update and provide excellent networking opportunities.

The conference examines the latest thinking and work from the NATO aspirant nations; Albania, Croatia, Macedonia, Georgia and Ukraine as well as case studies delivered by the 1999 and 2004 accession nations.

The Speakers
Frank Boland, Director, Force Planning, NATO HQ
Major General Teodor Frunzeti, Deputy Director, Romanian Defence Staff
Major General Leonid Holopatyuk, Chief, Department of Euro-Atlantic Integration, General Staff, Ukrainian Armed Forces
Petrit Karabina, Deputy Defence Minister, Albania
Mamuka Kudava, First Deputy Defence Minister, Georgia
Igor Pokaz, Assistant Minister for Defence Policy, Croatia
Péter Siklósi, Director of Defence Policy Department, Hungarian Ministry of Defence
Pjer Simunovic, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs and NATO Co-ordinator, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Croatia
Tadej Burgar, Head, Defence Policy Directorate, Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Slovenia
Colonel Jozef Viktorin, Integration and International Military Co-operation Branch, J-5 GS SA, Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic
Colonel Milan Celko, Deputy Chief of Staff J5, General Staff, Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic
Auste Dobrovolskyte, Head of Policy & Co-operation Division, NATO and EU Department, Ministry of Defence, Lithuania
Chris Bennett, Communications Director, Office of the High Representative, NATO
Major General (ret.) Dr. Mihail E. Ionescu, Director, Institute for Political Studies of Defense and Military History, Romanian Ministry of Defence
Group Captain Stewart Blackburn, Special Defence Adviser to the Polish Minister of National Defence, Polish General Staff

www.smi-online.co.uk/2006natoexp.asp

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