Chargé d’Affairs Eddins opens “Eastern and Central European Regional
Seminar on Legal Aspects of Combating Terrorism and Handling Extremism”
seminar
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Chargé d’Affairs Keith Eddins. |
The US Embassy’s Office of Defense Cooperation worked with the
Ministry of the Interior in organizing the third in a series of
seminars in Slovakia titled: “Eastern and Central European Regional
Seminar on Legal Aspects of Combating Terrorism and Handling
Extremism”. It was held at the State Police Academy in Bratislava from
August 24 to 28, 2009. Fourty-eight participants from nine European
countries will take part in the seminar. The seminar was financed by
the “Counter Terrorism Fellowship Program (CTFP)” of the United States
Defense Department. Minister of Interior Kalinak and U.S. Chargé Eddins
gave remarks to open the seminar and then had a brief press
availability where Chargé Eddins praised the U.S./Slovak strategic
cooperation against terrorism as well as thanking Slovakia for their
decision to accept 98 Palestinian refugees from Iraq for temporary
resettlement.
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