NATO Student Simulation: Meeting of NATO ministers of foreign affairs Print

On 1st October 2011 Youth of the Euro-Atlantic Council of Macedonia organized a second NATO Student Simulation in Macedonia named - NATO Enlargement and the Western Balkans

The event was practically a simulation of a NATO meeting of ministers of foreign affairs, on which was discusses on the NATO enlargement, the NATO open door policy (Article 10 of the Washington Treaty ) as well as the prospects for extending invitation to membership to the current aspiring countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and Montenegro.

The NATO Student simulation was a youth project and reflected a scenario of a real-life meeting of the North Atlantic Council in the format of ministers of foreign affairs.

Participants at the simulation were students from universities in Macedonia who were adequately prepared for the simulation representing countries members of NATO, aspiring countries, journalists and international organizations.

Special guests for the simulation were the Lazar Elenovski, President of the Euro-Atlantic Council of Macedonia, H.E. Mrs. Maria Henriette Schuurman, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Netherlands to the Republic of Macedonia and NATO Contact Embassy and the vice-chanchelor of SEE University, Abdylmenaf Bedzeti, which practically addresed to the present on the opening ceremony.

Moreover, this year the simulation had international character. Jens Christian Overgaard, the president of the YATA Denmark who had the role of the NATO Secretary General and the representatives from Montenero and Bosnia and Herzegovina, which practicaly had the roles of the ministers of foreign affairs from their countries. The guests gave very benefitial contribution to the simulation and without their participation there wasn’t going to be such successful event.

The Youth of the Euro-Atlantic Council of Macedonia was the first organization that organized NATO  Student simulation in the country by any organization (so now we allready organized second in the country and third, including Kosovos simulation), and considering the interest it has with the participants and observers and the impressions from NATO PDD it has the prospective of becoming a traditional project of the YATA Macedonia.

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