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“Trilateral Meeting with the UN” and “Semiannual Talks with the US DoS”

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New York, NY and Washington, DC (USA), December 14 - 19 , 2018
From the 14th to the 19th December 2018, the CoESPU attended the Periodical Meetings with
the United Nations and the Semiannual Talks with the US Department of State (US DoS) and the
US Department of Defense (US DoD).

In New York, at the Italian
Permanent Mission to the UN took
place the “Trilateral Meeting”, in
the presence of the Ambassador,
Mrs Maria A. Zappia, the Assistant
Secretary General for RoL and
Security Insitutions, Mr. A. Zouev,
the Deputy Police Adviser, Mr.
Shaowen, the DPKO Integrated
Training Service Chief, Mr.
Pedersen, the USA Deputy Military Adviser to the US Permanent Mission, Lt.Col Sadowski, and
a delegation of Italian Defense Staff.
In the frame of the longstanding and fruitful cooperation between the UN, Italy, and the US, it
has been underlined the relevance of the CoESPU commitment, in partnership with the US DoS
Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI) in promoting global peace and security through the
support to the international effor ts in stabilizing conflict areas around the world. Among the
others, Mr. Pedersen stressed the importance of CoESPU role in the pre-deployment training,
crucial to fill the gap of preparation unveiled by the “Cruz Report”.
The CoESPU reported about the 2018 training activities pursuant to the “Action Points” recently
signed with the UN and proposed a new 11-weeks “FPU-Pre Deployment Training” model - 3
weeks in Italy and 8 “in-Country” - in line with the ingoing UN standards. The new model
focuses on the Contributing Countries’ training self-sufficiency and allows to provide 1 or 2
extra FPU-PDT per year.

Afterwards, In Washington, DC, took place the
“Semiannual Talks” between the CoESPU and relevant
US stakeholders (Office of the Undersecretary of Defense,
Peacekeeping & Stabilty Operation Institute, US
Department of Defence, Secretary of Defence Force
Education & Training, Office of US Army Provost
Marshall General, etc), to further toughen mutual engagement and to renew partnerships. After 5
years of cooperation in education & training between the US DoD and the Carabinieri, it was
announced the extension of further 5 years of the initial Memorandum of Understanding, to be
updated and enlarged at the earliest opportunity.

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