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Association for International Affairs in cooperation with Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic and NATO Public Diplomacy Division held an international conference Prague Transatlantic Talks on 18 April 2012. The speakers, divided into three panels, discussed the future of NATO and transatlantic relations, mainly in the context of NATO operation in Libya and the concept of Smart Defence. Now we present the conference report from the event which provides recommendations and further debatable questions that arose from the discussion. Check out the photos in our Photogallery!

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Association for International Affairs presents its annual publication Agenda for Czech Foreign Policy 2012, which evaluates all the activities of Czech authorities in the context of international political issues and proposes recommendations for upcoming period. The official presentation of the Agenda will be held at the public debate Czech Foreign Policy in 2012 on 3 May 2012. The registration to the event is possible at registration@amo.cz.

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On Thursday, April 19, 2012 AMO Supervisory Board has appointed the new director of the Association for Internatinal Affairs. Alexandra McGehee takes place of Maria Staszkiewicz who starts working at a new Czech branch of Aspen Institute. Mgr. Alexandra McGehee has worked in a variety of managerial positions for the third sector for 10 years, last time as Development Manager for the international network of independent think-tanks PASOS – Policy Association for an Open Society. She listed finding new financial resources for oganization as one of her priorities in AMO.

Association for International Affairs celebrates the 15th anniversary of its founding. AMO, originally a group of students interested in foregin affairs, emerged to the leading Czech non-governmental non-profit organization that, thanks to its Research Center it is active as the independent foreign policy-oriented think-tank. It organizes the biggest project of informal education in Central Europe, Prague Student Summit. It implements projects of transformational cooperation in Ukraine, Egypt, Belarus or Georgia. After 15 years of its existence, Association cooperated with hundreds people, some of them currently active in Czech public sphere. Today, AMO has more than 200 members and cooperators.

In the context of the third year of the international conference Prague Transatlantic Talks, which takes place Wednesday, April 18, 2012, Association for International Affairs presents policy paper on NATO and the Arab Spring: Challenge to Cooperation, Opportunity for Action? The paper, as well as the conference, deals with the future prospects of NATO operations, that has to find solutions to new questions raised after the mission in Libya had been conducted.

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On Wednesday, April 18 at 9 AM we are holding the international conference Prague Transatlantic Talks 2012 - After Libya: The Future of NATO Operations. The event is organized under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic and with support of the NATO Public Diplomacy Division. To register, please write to ptt@amo.cz by April 16.

The 17th season of Prague Student Summit (PSS) was successfully concluded on March 12, 2012 by the final conference. PSS is considered as one of the biggest projects of informal education in the Czech Republic. More than 300 students acted as representatives of 86 countries in simulations of three international organizations - UN, NATO a EU. The opening ceremony was attended by prominent guests such as Bohuslav Svoboda, Mayor of Prague, or the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, Jiří Schneider.

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