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    Conference on Black Sea security opens in Georgia
    By Eka Mekhuzla

    ITAR-TASS News Agency
    September 10, 2004 Friday

    TBILISI, September 10 -- A regional conference on security of the
    Black Sea region opened in Chakva, near Batumi, on Friday. It is being
    held under the aegis of Harvard University. Taking part in its work
    are fifty-eight military experts from Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia,
    Bulgaria, Romania, USA, and Turkey.

    The experts, "whose views are heeded by the presidents of many
    countries of the world", Georgian Defence Minister Georgy Baramidze
    stated, will discuss some problems of regional security in order to
    "provide objective information to the world community, which is very
    important for Georgia". Present at the conference is Deputy Commander
    of U.S. Forces in Europe Charles World, who is known to be among the
    authors of the U.S. "Training and Equipment Program". Four battalions
    of Georgian commandos were trained in accordance with it.

    This is the third conference on Black Sea security that is being
    held by Harvard University. The first one took place in Yalta in
    2002 and the second one - in Baku in 2003. "Its main purpose is to
    promote contacts among the participants of the Harvard Program and
    to draw American generals and politicians into the dialogue on Black
    Sea security," officials of the Georgian Defence Ministry pointed out.

    Russia, they told Itar-Tass, is not taking part in the conference.
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