NGORC: Programs > Resettlement Program

26.09.2002

The special Coordinator of the Stability Pact for South-Eastern Europe Mr. Erhard Busek met the team of the Resource Centre Foundation

On 26 September 2002 during his visit in Bulgaria the special Coordinator of the Stability Pact for South-Eastern Europe Mr. Erhard Busek met the team of the Resource Centre Foundation working on the Resettlement Program of Redundant Military Servicemen. The meeting took place at the Resettlement Center Sofia, one of the four Centers, established in cooperation with the Ministry of Defence.

The Program Director presented the activities and the results achieved. Representatives of the President Administration, Ministry of Defense, General Staff of the Bulgarian Army, Diplomatic Corp and the mass media attended the meeting.

"You have done an outstanding job and I am quite happy not only to be here, but, also to deliver this message to you … What we have to do, it should not be only known here by the country, it should not be only known by the region but we have to say it also outside … Many thanks and a deep respect for the job done, and I am asking you to continue under the challenges existing – the challenges of Common Europe "

With these words Mr. Erhard Busek addressed the hosts and highly estimated the social and economic success of the program not only for Bulgaria but for the Balkan Region as well.

Asked if the Stability Pact would support the Military base Conversion Pilot Project, Mr. Busek answered that this is a responsibility and that the donors society even out of the European Union would have to be convinced to grant the Project with respect the stability of the region.