Fifth Balkan CHODs Conference begins in Ohrid

Serbian Armed Forces Chief of Staff has attended today the Fifth Balkan CHODs Conference held in Ohrid.

Besides General Miletic, the participants in the Conference are CHODs of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Montenegro and Macedonia, DCHODs of Greece and Romania, and Turkish Armed Forces Third Army Commander.

Guests at the Conference are Deputy Chairman of NATO Military Committee, General Walter Gaskin, Commander of the Allied Joint Force Command, Naples, Admiral Samuel Locklear, Representative of the US European Command (EUCOM) and DCHODs of Croatia and Slovenia.

At the opening of the Conference, the attendees were addressed by Macedonian President Djordje Ivanov and Chief of Macedonian Army Lieutenant-General Miroslav Stojanovski. President Ivanov, recalling that the main security threats in the modern world are terrorism and extremism, stressed the importance of the Balkan CHODs Conference which fully reflects the spirit of cooperation in Southeast Europe.

The Balkan CHODs Conference, an important initiative to strengthen military cooperation in the region, was established by Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Turkey. The first conference was held in Thessaloniki in 2007, and the third such conference was held in Belgrade in 2009.