conference Information

Conference will be held for one and a half days, on December 1st and 2nd, 2003.

Conference is being held in the Belgrade's Sava Center conference complex that is adjacent to the Hotel-Intercontinental. Hotels Hyatt and Yugoslavia are nearby and a bus service between these three hotels will be provided during the conference.

Registration includes attendance for all the events, including one lunch and two dinner receptions, transportation between three hotels and reception venues, transportation to and from Belgrade Airport, conference materials and exposition entrance.

exposition information

Exposition will be open for four days, from December 1st to December 4th, 2003. There will be about 40 exhibitors from the relevant industries and institutions. Exhibition spaces will be small, either 4 or 8 square meters, and are intended primarily for printed materials distribution and making contacts.

If any exhibitor wishes to make a separate presentation, this can be arranged.

About the organizers

Atlantic Council of Serbia and Montenegro

The Atlantic Council of Serbia and Montenegro is a non-governmental and non-profit organization, founded on June 13th 2001. The Council's founders include individuals prominent in diplomacy, business, political analysis, law, journalism, and marketing; analysts involved in military and security issues; university faculty members; and persons prominent in other areas of public life.

The Atlantic Council of Serbia and Montenegro propagates Euro-Atlantic ideas and values, as they are the prerequisite for our country's incorporation into Euro-Atlantic integration processes. It advocates the development of democracy, civil society, protection of human and minority rights, the rule of law, and democratic control of the military and police.

It advocates peaceful resolution of all disputes and conflicts, affirmation of the system of collective security and restraint from use of force, and strict respect for territorial integrity and for the principle of the inviolability of borders.

The Atlantic Council of Serbia and Montenegro is a member of the Atlantic Treaty Association (ATA), an organization encompassing similar organizations in 40 countries.


eSEEurope Initiative of the Stability Pact for the Southeastern Europe

The Stability Pact e-Southeast Europe (eSEE) initiative was launched in Istanbul in October 2000 and it was constituted in January 2001. Regional ownership was reinforced by Serbia and Montenegro taking over chairmanship from Sweden in March 2002 and by a Secretariat based in the Sarajevo office of UNDP.

The aim of eSEE Europe Initiative is to better integrate Southeast European countries into the global, knowledge-based economy by supporting the countries of the region in the development of the Information Society, including benchmarking, best practices and the transfer of knowledge. The initiative promotes the creation of a proper institutional environment for building the Information Society for all, in line with EU policies. It also aims at coordinating and facilitating the introduction of ICT projects in various fields, including business, government, and education.

Within the initiative's framework, the international agreement "eSEEurope Agenda for the Development of the Information Society" was signed by the ministers of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro and Serbia to enable the SEE countries to follow the aims and progress of the eEurope initiative launched in Lisbon in March 2000.

The initiative operates as a Working Group and meets four times a year to initiate and review activities and to monitor the progress of the Agenda.
 

About the sponsors

Chance for Stability Foundation, Szeged, Hungary

Chance for Stability Public Foundation was established, as one of the outcomes of the Conference on Stability, by the Municipality of Szeged at the beginning of 2000 with the aims of mitigating the losses caused by the war in former Yugoslavia and of promoting the economic development in the South-Hungarian region and Szeged, and last but not least of promoting stability in the region in the interests of the Euro-Atlantic integration.

Since then the Foundation has held conferences where mayors from the EU, Hungary and Serbia and Montenegro discussed the possibilities of co-operation. These conferences became known as the ‘Szeged Process’. The foundation supported local governments and civil and economic organisations in Serbia and Montenegro by giving them financial assistance (approximately $1.5 million), and together with USAID (United States Agency for International Development) and ICMA (International City/County Management Association) we implemented the Serbia Material Assistance Programme. Under this programme we provided four Serbian cities with humanitarian help in the areas of health, environment, sanitation and education.

In February and March 2002 CSPF and the Regional Environmental Centre co-financed and implemented two specialised courses for municipal leaders from Serbia in the field of Environmental Protection. Japan Special Fund allocated $40,000 for this purpose, and the Foundation financed approximately HUF 5,000,000.

Foundation's aims are to satisfy the urgent needs of the Serbian local governments and civil organisations for immediate financial and material help to meet the basic needs of their citizens, to support and maintain democracy in the region, and so to reach political and economic stability.