Brussels, 4 December 2018 - A special event was organised at NATO HQ on 29 November to celebrate the 60th anniversary of NATO's Science for Peace and Security (SPS). The attendees were addressed by DSG NATO Rose Gottemoeller, SPS Section Head dr. Deniz Beten and ASG for Emerging Security Challenges Dr. Antonio Missiroli, as well as by the ambassadors of member states and partners that have established significant cooperation in the framework of this program. In his address, the Ambassador of Serbia Miomir Udovički pointed out that the Republic of Serbia has a very successful cooperation and realization of projects through the SPS program. He emphasized the importance of this program for young scientists from Serbia and the improvement of the technical and technological conditions for their work. He also emphasized that during the recent civil exercise "Serbia 2018" in Mladenovac two scientific projects were presented in the field of telemedicine and "Next Generation Incident Command Center" (NICS). A special exhibition was organised at NATO HQ with several prototypes, including of a system for detecting in real-time traces of explosives at airports, metro and railway stations, led by Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the Republic of Serbia and Ukraine.

Brussels, 19 November 2018 - In the framework of the chairmanship of the Serbian Mission to NATO of the informal South East European Security Cooperation Group (SEEGROUP), a thematic meeting was held on 16 November at the NATO headquarters in Brussels,dedicated to the civil exercise in the field of emergency planning "Srbija 2018", which took place 8-11 October in the area around Mladenovac. The director of the international field exercise on behalf of the NATO Euro-Atlantic Center for Emergency Situations (EADRCC), C.Zoikas, expressed gratitude to R. Serbia for the organization of the exercise, which he rated as the largest, most complex and most successful in the 20-year history of EADRCC. A total of 40 countries participated, out of which 23 sent their rescue teams. The Assistant Head of the Sector For Emergency Management of the Ministry of the Interior of the R.Serbia I. Baras pointed out that there were around 2,000 participants in the exercise, out of which 900 from abroad - besides NATO member and partners, representatives of international organizations (EU, UN, OSCE, International Red Cross) also took part. The thematic meeting was attended by representatives of NATO member states and partners, as well as from the NATO International Secretariat.

Belgrade, 09 November 2018 - Ambassador Branimir Filipovic, Acting Assistant Foreign Minister for Security Policy, had talks today with Mr James Appathurai, NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs, who attended the Sixth NATO Week on his visit to Belgrade. In the meeting they exchanged views on Serbia-NATO relations and took stock of the political dialogue and the past PfP cooperation, including activities to be undertaken, inter alia, in the context of the drafting of the new bi-annual cycle Individual Partnership Action Plan (IPAP) being implemented with success since 2015, and other forms of practical partner cooperation in various areas within the NATO Partnership for Peace Programme. The meeting focused attention in particular on the current situation in Kosovo and Metohija and on the performance of the KFOR mandate in maintaining peace and stability in the Province and in protecting the Serb community and their historical, cultural and religious heritage sites.