Int'l security challenges debated in Warsaw
PR dla Zagranicy
Grzegorz Siwicki
24.10.2018 11:12
A two-day conference focusing on key security challenges facing NATO, the European Union and their member and partner countries was scheduled to get under way in the Polish capital on Wednesday.
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The Warsaw Security Forum was expected to debate both international policy issues and security aspects such as cyber security and economic and energy security, public broadcaster Polish Radio’s IAR news agency reported.
Other topics up for debate included terrorism, Russian "revisionist policies," disinformation activities and strictly military aspects such as efforts to strengthen NATO's eastern flank and the future of the alliance's air defence systems, according to the news agency.
The annual Warsaw Security Forum, now in its fifth year, attracts government decision makers and officials from NATO and EU countries as well as experts.
It aims to help work out a collective response to challenges and threats facing NATO and EU countries and to deepen defence cooperation.
Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz, former NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Gen. Ben Hodges, a former U.S. Army commander in Europe, were listed among keynote speakers this year.
Halting “dangerous Russian ambitions” and cooperation between NATO and the EU are among key challenges for Polish security policy, a senior official said at last year's Warsaw Security Forum.
(gs/pk)
Source: IAR