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Trust Fund projects - promoting security and defence reform 7. One Minute Interview Contents   1. Trust Fund Policy   2. How to put together a Trust Fund project?  3. Six principles of the Trust Fund policy  4. Trust Fund projects  5. Working together for results  6. Role of NAMSA  7. One Minute Interview Editorial Note   Important publisher and editorial information about this document Other Formats English PDF (~1080Kb) Printable version with colour illustrations Order a hardcopy version using the online order form. Anne Bader, Executive Vice President, The Fund for Peace The mission of the Fund for Peace is to prevent war and alleviate the conditions that cause war. Why has it become involved with the NATO/PfP Trust Fund? The Fund for Peace was invited by NATO to become involved in the Trust Fund. The work that the Alliance has asked us to do is indicative of the type of non-governmental organisation we are. We seek to forge new partnerships between international organisations, non-governmental organisations and governments. It is critical that we learn to operate together and create new approaches to preventing war in order to stop so many lives being wasted. I commend NATO for engaging and involving civil society in its work through Trust Fund projects, the Partnership for Peace programme and other activities. Together we can pursue new solutions, to stop old problems from coming back. Zoran Dimitrijevic, NAMSA Project Supervisor in Serbia and Montenegro The project in Kragujevac is the second Trust Fund project in Serbia and Montenegro. Why is it so important? This project will help Serbia and Montenegro meet its obligations under the Ottawa Convention, that is, to destroy the country's stockpile of 1.3 million anti-personnel landmines. It will also help promote better standards and procedures in the Ministry of Defence, building on the experience already gained in the country's first Trust Fund project, which involved the destruction of 28 000 small and light weapons at a facility in Cacak in 2003. The destroyed mines will be safely recycled. Moreover, the facility could be used in future for the demilitarisation of ammunition - in this way, the project will have helped create new value and local capacity. Once the project has been completed, southeastern Europe will be free of all landmine stockpiles. For more information: Partnership for Peace: www.nato.int/pfp/pfp.htm NAMSA: www.namsa.nato.int Trust Fund website: www.nato.int/pfp/trust-fund.htm

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