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New NATO Liaison Officer for Central Asia
20 November 2015
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Rosaria Puglisi’s mission as NATO Liaison Officer is to expand dialogue and mutual understanding with NATO’s five Central Asian partners and to facilitate practical cooperation in the framework of the Partnership for Peace. Based in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, she is inaugurating her diplomatic mission with a round of introductory visits in the region. First stop - Kyrgyzstan.
In meetings in Bishkek from 16 to 20 November with representatives of the Kyrgyz foreign ministry, Defence Council and the General Staff, Puglisi explored concrete opportunities of cooperation, encouraging her counterparts to seize all practical opportunities that NATO offers to enhance the country's interests in the field of defence.
She also met public diplomacy partners at the Turkish-Kyrgyz Manas University, the Diplomatic Academy of the Kyrgyz Republic and the American University of Central Asia. She paid a visit to existing NATO Corners in these institutions' libraries as well as to the NATO-Kyrgyz English-language programme.
The NATO Liaison Officer also met heads of the United Nations, European Union (EU) and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe as well as NATO embassies represented in the country.
Her visit was timed around the launch of the NATO Building Integrity (BI) programme in the Kyrgyz Republic. The programme, which aims at fighting corruption in the armed forces, was initiated on the country's authorities' initiative, as it fits Kyrgyzstan's overall efforts to eliminate corruption from the public administration.
Puglisi has a broad experience in international organisations, having worked in the past with the EU and the Council or Europe. With a focus on countries of the former Soviet Union, she has served as political advisor in Georgia, Kosovo, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine. She was chief of staff in the EU Border Assistance Mission in Libya and Head of the EU Liaison Office in Turkmenistan. She holds a MPhil in Economic Development and a PhD in International Relations from the University of Glasgow (UK).