The Estonian Minister of Defence Sven Mikser met his colleague Mijo Anic from Bosnia-Herzegovina in Tartu this afternoon. Mr. Anic participated in the festive graduation ceremony at Baltic Defence College.
The main topic of the first meeting of the ministers of Estonia and Bosnia-Herzegovina was possible bilateral defence co-operation in the future.
During the meeting the Defence Minister of Bosnia-Herzegovina expressed his sincere gratitude for the opportunity for Bosnian officers to get an education meeting all NATO standards at the college.
Mr. Anic proposed the Defence Ministries of the two countries should start preparations for working out the defence co-operation frame agreement. He stressed that Bosnia-Herzegovina was very much interested in Estonia’s experience reforming its defence forces as the same process would be starting in his country soon. Anic was also interested in Estonia’s experience preparing to join the Alliance.
The Defence Minister of Bosnia-Herzegovina Mijo Anic presented during the Baltic Defence College festive graduation ceremony officers from Bosnia-Herzegovina with diplomas. Two of the officers got the diploma of a senior staff officer and one the diploma of a colonel.
Bosnia-Herzegovina plans to send six officers to the next Baltic Defence College senior staff officers’ course.
The Estonian Minister of Defence Sven Mikser presented ten Estonians with the senior staff officer’s diploma and major PeeterLäns, the first officer to graduate the colonel’s course.
With the diploma of a colonel.
In his speech Mikser thanked all the lecturers of college. He also said that even before the Baltic countries got an invitation to join the Alliance, they already had an institution meeting NATO standards in the form of BALTDEFCOL.