The next meeting will take place on October 15th – 18th, 2014 in Slovakia.
Autumn meeting of the Gaminger Initiative Europe Brno, Czech Republic, October 24-27, 2024
Europe needs to be stronger and safer, was the main theme and message of the autumn meeting of the Gaminger Initiative Europe (GIE). The GIE meeting was successful and confirmed its importance as an important platform for cooperation and exchange of views between Member States. A new threemember GIE Presidency for the period 2024 to 2026 has been confirmed. Slovakia will host the next GIE meeting in the spring, and Slovenia in autumn 2025. The GIE brings together national associations of reserve officers from 13 European countries and has since 2004 focused mainly on issues related to European security policy and the armed forces. The regular autumn meeting of the GIE, which took place from 24th to 27th of October 2024 in Brno, Czech Republic, was attended by representatives of 11 Member States: Albania, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Moldova, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Germany and Switzerland (North Macedonia and Poland were absent). Opening of the meeting On behalf of the organizers, the participants of the meeting were addressed by Prof. Pavel Bílek, President of the Atlantic Council of the Czech Republic, and Colonel Miroslav Tlamicha, Czech National Representative in the GIE and Co-President of the GIE, Cdr. Giuseppe Filippo Imbalzano (Italy). The host of the autumn meeting of the GIE was the University of Defence in Brno. The Vice-Rector of the University, Petr Hlavizna, informed the participants about the rich history of this military higher education institution of the Czech Armed Forces, which dates to 1899, when it operated as the Czech Institute of Technology. The Defense University was established in 2004 and serves as a center for education, learning, research, and training of military professionals. The participants of the conference took the special opportunity to participate in the swearing-in ceremony of the new students at the university, which took place on the first day of the meeting, October 25th in the morning.
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Meeting was held in Karlovac/Croatia in 2024
Petrovska opened the meeting of the GAMINGER initiative: reserve officers are an integral part of the security system and a promoter of the Euro-Atlantic values
(On May 25, 2023)
This morning, the Minister of Defence Slavjanka Petrovska opened the spring meeting of the Central European Initiative of Reserve Officers, whose full-fledged member is the Organization of Reserve Officers of North Macedonia.
At the opening, the minister emphasized the importance of the positions and considerations of the reserve officers, taking into account the security challenges of the continent.
“The reality of our continent, the cradle of human civilization, is facing a conventional war, something that was unimaginable just over a year ago. It is this new security reality that requires all of us, the actors in the security sphere, to be clear in condemning the military aggression of one country against another independent and sovereign country, to be loud in the call to end human suffering and the need for reason to prevail”, said Petrovska.
Europe, free, safe and at peace, said the minister, is the only solution that is acceptable and therefore all of us, through these or similar formats, must openly discuss that in the 21st century there is no place for military actions on the old continent.
Regarding the organization of reserve officers, she said that the organization has been a key segment of the security of every country.
“The organization of reserve officers is an example of modern action and a promoter of Euro-Atlantic values and the modern understanding of their role in society. The fact that this Organization is developing and closely cooperating with the associations of reserve officers from Europe is proof of the place and role of this Organization in our Macedonian society”, said the minister.
The president of the Organization of Reserve Officers, Goce Goergiev, and the president of GAMINGER, Lt. Col. Philip Leo, in his opening remarks emphasized the importance of this Initiative within the European framework and the need for an open discussion about all security issues on the continent.
Links
www.reservistenverband.de/magazin-die-reserve/gaminger-initiative-30-jahre-zu-gast-bei-kameraden/