At The UNWE Will be Formed Multinational Center for Intelligent Defence of NATO

The President Rosen Plevneliev, the Rector of UNWE Prof. Statty Stattev and the Minister of Defence Anyu Angelov opened an International Conference on Intelligent Defence. It was organized by the Department of National and Regional Security in a partnership with the Ministry of Defence, the Association George Marshal, Bulgarian Academy of Science and the Institute for Metal Science Acad. Angel Balevsky. 

One of the objectives of the Forum – a wide public debate in collaboration with NATO and EU has been already achieved. There are over 110 participants from Bulgaria and abroad, official persons, representatives of the science, non-governmental sector, students and journalists, pointed out Dr. Svetoslav Spasov, Lecturer at the UNWE and Adviser of the Prime Minister Boyko Borisov. 

The Rector of UNWE expressed his gratitude to the President Plevneliev for he accepted so convincingly and fearlessly the invitation to be a patron of the Conference and outlined the importance of the intelligent defence. I`m sure the discussions on these hot issues initiated by our academic representatives and colleagues from the practice will have an exclusive importance for our future decisions and activities related to the security not only in our region but all over the world. This Forum is an eloquent example for the relation of science with practice. Life has proven that the voice of science must be heard clearly and distinctively and the politicians and statesmen must listen to this voice, emphasized Prof. Stattev. 

The Rector announced that there is an idea to be formed at the UNWE a Multinational Center to work on the issues of intelligent defence, to elaborate theoretical conceptions, to generate ideas. According to the President it will be wonderful to be formed such Center of NATO at the university because it will help Bulgaria to be positioned as one of the countries with the highest technologies.

At the International Conference attended also Andrey Kovatchev, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs to the European Parliament and Dr. Holger Bahle from the Directorate General of NATO. 

Students from our university had the opportunity to talk with the President on some issues of security and defence. Some actual questions discussed at this Forum will be central issues also at the Alliance meeting at high level in May in Chicago.