18.03.2014

Promotion of the Proceedings on National Critical Infrastructure Protection

In the Ceremonial Hall of the Central Military Club today, collection of papers entitled "National Critical Infrastructure Protection: a regional perspective", that represent proceedings of international scientific conference held in Belgrade in October 2013, have been presented today.

Prof. Ivica Radovic, Assistant Minister of Education, Science and Technological Development, Prof. Radomir Milasinovic, Dean of the Faculty of Security Studies, Prof. Zelimir Kesetovic and Prof. Zoran Kekovic, who are responsible for the maintenance of international conferences and the publication of the proceedings, as well as for scientific and professional promotion of the concept of critical infrastructure protection in Serbia, spoke about the importance of the proceedings.

The audience was addressed by Miroslav Jovanovic, Assistant Minister for Defence Policy, and Predrag Maric, Head of the Sector for Emergency Planning of the Ministry of the Interior, who emphasized the importance of the Proceedings, which should be an encouragement for all political decision makers to pay special attention to the topic of critical infrastructure protection. Jovanovic said that the Ministry of Defence will continue to provide support to all those who study the topic of national critical infrastructure protection, defining and resolving problems in this area.

Professor Radovic, one of the authors of the Proceedings, emphasized the importance of the conference for projects that provide challenges for the time to come because "the science and knowledge are our future".

Dean of the Faculty of Security Studies said that the Proceedings were result of something that is sublimation of knowledge of the most qualified people in the above mentioned area.

- Proceedings are the crown of the International Conference in which it was possible to hear a wide variety of opinions and present insights in everything that has been said so far about the protection of critical infrastructure, and is a light for all who are dealing with this issue, Professor Milasinovic said.

Professor Kekovic, one of the editors, thanked the participants of the conference and authors of the papers because they "shared part of their experience and knowledge that make them recognizable in the society and published it".

- Papers were written by individuals, not institutions, and it is important from the point of an impartial judgement on security events and in terms of the scientific interpretation of the facts relevant to the critical infrastructure protection, Kekovic said.

Professor Kesetovic spoke about the contemporary dangers of natural disasters and malicious human actions that require a new approach to the protection of critical infrastructure.

The efforts of the participants of the conference in the research and writing of original scientific papers, of which the most representative ones were selected for thematic collection of papers, were intended to help with the collected knowledge the decision makers in strategic planning and development of appropriate strategic documents in the area of critical infrastructure protection.