Minister of Defence István Simicskó is also attending the GLOBSEC 2016 security policy conference in Bratislava on 15 April. The main topics of the three-day event are the migrant crisis, the crisis in the Middle East, the Islamic State and the Syrian war, as well as the effects of Russia’s intervention in Ukraine and Syria and the lead-up to the NATO Summit in Warsaw.

The participants of the event will also discuss the possible outcome of the presidential election in the United States and the future of transatlantic cooperation. 

Established 11 years ago, at first GLOBSEC was a platform for coordinating security and defence policy in the Central European region. Today, it also provides an important forum for European and transatlantic dialogue. Similarly to the Munich Security Conference (MSC), in addition to politicians, a number of different research and analysis organizations and companies also represent themselves at the meeting. The forum has been opened by Slovakian President Andrej Kiska, and the keynote speech delivered by German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen. Minister of Defence István Simicskó is going to attend the first session, which focuses on current challenges and seeks to answer the question of how the strengthening of the Visegrád Four (V4) cooperation contributes to a stronger Europe. The Hungarian Minister of Defence is also scheduled to meet with his German and Slovak counterparts in Bratislava.

The agenda of the German–Hungarian meeting includes military-to-military relations, the lead-up to the NATO Summit in Warsaw, the crisis in Ukraine and the European security situation (with special regard to the migration situation).

The Hungarian–Slovak bilateral meeting will mainly focus on military-to-military cooperation.

The main organizers of the event are the Slovak Atlantic Commission (SAC) and the Central European Strategy Council.

(Ministry of Defence)