EU and NATO Military Committee Met in Brussels

Szöveg: honvedelem.hu | 2019. május 24. 15:30

On 21st May the EU’s and a day later NATO’s supreme military decision-making authority met in the Belgian capital, in the centre of the Alliance.

On 21st May, during the EU Military Committee meeting, the Chiefs of Defence (CHODs) discussed the current issues of the EU-NATO co-operation, the EU CSDP operations, the Single European Sky, the capability development (PESCO, CARD, EDF, EDIDP), and the European Peace Facility (EPF).

The body composed of the representatives of the Member States by secret ballot elected the next Director General EUMS, Vice Admiral Hervé Bléjean, who takes over the position from Lieutenant General Esa Pulkkinen.

On 22nd May, the program of the Hungarian delegation continued at NATO’s Headquarters. NATO Member States’ number one military leaders, Chiefs of Defence (CHODs), meet three times a year in this format, twice in Brussels and once at an external site, to discuss NATO’s priority military strategic issues, to provide their viewpoints, to co-ordinate their positions with one another. As a highlight of the session, the CHODs with their signatures sanctioned NATO’s Military Strategy, which seeks to provide responses to the security environment fundamentally changed since 2014, with a 10-year perspective.

The military leaders reviewed NATO’s deterrence and defence arrangements, the issues to be confirmed concerning the area of responsibility of the Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR). A further negotiation topic was, in respect of Ukraine’s security situation and the stability of the MENA Countries, the analysis of the achievements thanks to NATO’s Mediterranean Dialogue, and the discussion of the opportunities for additional support – such as the Projection of Stability (PS), Defence Capacity Building (DCB).

The Hungarian delegation was led by Lieutenant General Ferenc Korom, the Commander of the Hungarian Defence Forces; the member of the delegation was Lieutenant General Dr. Zoltán Orosz, Military Representative, and the experts of the HDF Office of the Military Representative to NATO.