Regional Workshop on Harmonizing National Nuclear Law with International Law Including European Law

Prof. Dimitar Dimitrov, Rector of UNWE and Head of the National and Regional Security Department greeted the guests and participants in the Workshop and outlined the significance of the topic for the nuclear security development in global scale. He pointed out that choosing the UNWE in the eve of its 100 Anniversary as host of the event had its reason. In the academic year 2015/2016 as a result of Cooperation Agreement in the field of education and scientific research concluded between the UNWE and IAEA, at the University was started the international Master`s degree programme Economics of Defence and Security, specialization Nuclear Security – the only one specialized programme on nuclear security in the world educating students from Bulgaria, Nigeria, Lebanon, Zambia, Jordan, Burkina Faso, Congo, Sudan, Mauritania, Uganda /part of them are IAEA scholarship students/. The Rector expressed his confidence that the Workshop would contribute to find solutions for strengthening the national nuclear legislations.