Bled, Slovenia, 29 August. The Bled Strategic Forum, an important annual gathering of great thinkers from the spheres of politics, industry, and academia from Europe, South Eastern Europe and beyond, was attended also by Amre Moussa, Secretary General of the League of Arab States.  

Mr. Moussa is also a member of the Honorary Board of the EMUNI Foundation, which organized a meeting with the Secretary General and the Members of his cabinet in Villa Bled. From the side of EMUNI it was attended by Dr. Joseph Mifsud, EMUNI president,  Alenka Suhadolnik, president of the Management Board of the EMUNI Foundation, Andreja Viher, Director of the EMUNI Foundation and Simona Drenik, member of the Management Board of the EMUNI Foundation. Dr. Joszef Györkös, State Secretary in the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology, also took part in the meeting.

Alenka Suhadolnik expressed a welcome to the high guest and invited him to lecture at EMUNI Talks, the series of events with prominent individuals, which EMUNI Foundation started to organize this year. She stressed the importance of intercultural dialogue for the Euro-Mediterranean area and introduced the role of EMUNI Foundation. In addition, she introduced a new project, with which the Foundation aims at further strengthening the ties in the Euro-Mediterranean Area and would include translations of books from the languages of the Mediterranean Area, especially from Arabic. The EMUNI president introduced the EMUNI University and its activities, while Dr. Joszef Györkös stressed the governmental support to the project and invited the Secretary General to the conference of the ministers of Higher Education of the Union for the Mediterranean, which will be held in the last quarter this year.

Mr Amre Moussa expressed his support to the project which he finds very important for the region, where the political links are frequent, but it lacks ties on the cultural, scientific and higher educational area. He stressed that EMUNI can play a crucial role in this regard and proposed that the university includes water management among its priority areas, which is in the focal interest of Arabic countries.

Bled Forum was attended by numerous prominent businessmen, policy-makers from national capitals, the EU, UN, NATO, OECD and OSCE.