On 27/28 November 2001, Working Table III (Security Issues) will hold its regular meeting in Budapest.

Apart from follow up work to the Bucharest Regional Conference on various issues, the Working Table III plenary session will focus on the Security Sector Reform and Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW). The Working Table is expected to approve a regional Implementation Plan of SALW. The work will then continue in parallel under the two sub-tables, Defence and Security, and Justice and Home Affairs. Issues to be discussed include mine action, disaster preparedness, defence conversion, organised crime, anti-corruption, police training and border control issues, migration and asylum issues, including human trafficking, and anti-terrorism.

A concluding Press Conference by the Working Table's Co-chairs, Ambassador Kim Traavik and State Secretary Ivan Baba, is envisaged for 28 November 2001, at 12.15 in the Budapest Hilton.

Working Table III background documents, including agenda of Budapest meeting, can be consulted at: WT III

On 29/30 November, Working Table II (Economic Reconstruction) will meet in Sarajevo. On 29 November, a Statement of Intent to establish the Sava River International Treaty will be signed by ministers. This Stability Pact initiative paves the way for an international treaty to accommodate the fact that the Sava, with the disintegration of the old Yugoslavia, has become an international waterway concerning Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and F.R. Yugoslavia. Bodo Hombach will attend the ministerial meeting, which will be followed by a signing ceremony and a press conference at 18.30 (Joint Institutions Building, Trg BiH 1, Sarajevo).

The regular Press Conference on the conclusion of the Working Table II meeting will take place on 30 November at 12.30 at the hotel Holiday Inn, Sarajevo.