The meeting also discussed topics concerning international co-operation in security matters and commended the recently-ended Noble Midas military exercise, describing it as having been conducted in accordance with the highest standards. The meeting’s participants also reviewed the security situation in the region, with an emphasis on the solution of the Kosovo status as an issue of extreme importance for the further development of stability.
The meeting represents a continuation of the successfully established dialogue and opinion-exchange framework between the US-Adriatic Charter countries – Albania, Croatia, Macedonia and the US, and the three Baltic countries – Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, that began on Croatia’s initiative in April 2007 on Brijuni, and continued in Tallinn early-2007.
Participating in the Split meeting as monitors were also the representatives of the Partnership for Peace countries – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Serbia.