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On 26 January, the SEESAC team met with representatives of RACVIAC - Center for Security Cooperation in South East Europe. Ambassador Nikola Todorcevski, Director of RACVIAC and Lt Col Stefan Miene, RACVIAC Program Manager for Cooperative Security Environment  met with Dr. Ivan Zverzhanovski, SEESAC Team Leader a.i., Bojana Balon WPON Project Manager and Iva Savic SEESAC’s Communications Officer to discuss ongoing activities and future opportunities for collaboration. SEESAC and RACVIAC overlap in many key focus areas such as security sector reform, international cooperation and arms control in Southeast Europe.

With that in mind the two structures agreed that continuing the successful practice of coordination of activities as well as joining of efforts is paramount to an efficient and effective contribution to security and cooperation in SEE.

In that spirit, representatives of RACVIAC informed the SEESAC team of the expanding scope of their work which now includes problems of cyber security in addition to the three above mentioned pillars of activity. They also underlined RACVIAC’s readiness to continue to serve as a platform for dialogue on security issues for all the relevant organizations in the region.   SEESAC, in turn, spoke of its ongoing and expanding work on arms control and security sector reform with particular emphasis on gender mainstreaming. Human rights and gender mainstreaming in security context were identified as some of the potential areas for collaboration. The two teams agreed to meet again in RACVIAC and explore these in more detail while strengthening channels of communication in the meantime.