TRUST Workshop:
Tirana Albania
26-27 September 2004


 


(L to R) Former Prime Minister Ilir Meta (Albania); President Alfred Moisiu (Albania); Under Secretary General Günther Altenburg (NATO); and Minister of Defense Pandeli Majko (Albania).


The Conference Hall

A review of the Albanian experience in reducing the surplus weapons, the challenges other countries of the region face in addressing the security sector reforms and disposal of such weapons, as well as the role of the press and civil society in this endeavor, were the topics of a NATO Partnership for Peace Trust Fund workshop in Tirana, Albania, September 26 and 27.

En route to the demilitarization site at Mjekes, Elbasan


THE PROCESS: Preparing hand grenades for demilitarization


Demilitarization worker cleans each Chinese hand grenade before...


...inserting the hand grenades into separator mechanism


Removing TNT from Chinese hand grenades (manufactured c. 1968)


Chief Engineer of the NAMSA site with Ismet Drenova, Chairman, National Demilitarization Center


Albanian Ministry of Defense escorts


Macedonia Institute participants


(L to R) Richard Winfield, Chair, Fund for Peace; Miroslav Vlach, Ministry of Defense, Czech Republic; Nicholas Kehoe, Fund for Peace trustee; Jenise Plourde, Fund for Peace.


Lt. Gen. Kehoe, USAF (ret.)


Mile Bosnjakoski, Training Coordinator, Macedonia Institute for Media


Susan Pond (NATO) with Anton Martynyuk (OSCE)

 

 


Trees on the road to the new incinerator on the Mjekes site are a symbol of growth and hope for the region.

 

 

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