The National Guard will hold a State Partnership Program regional workshop with 10 countries from southeast Europe this month in Sofia, Bulgaria.
State Guard leaders and chiefs of defense staffs and appropriate civilian emergency management leaders from the European countries will attend the two-day conference beginning June 3.
The participants will "exchange information and ideas to strengthen their mutual security cooperation activities under the State Partnership Program and the U.S. European Command and promote stability and progress in southeast Europe," said Col. Randy Everett, director of the National Guard Bureau's Office of International Affairs.
Topics will include helping the countries' military forces achieve NATO standards, military support to civil authorities during disasters and improving civil security.
-Compiled from staff and Pentagon reports
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