BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 29. NATO Headquarters
Sarajevo Commander Brigadier Common Matthew Valas visited a
preparatory workshop in Bosnia’s Kupres, Development reviews citing
the Bosnian Protection Ministry.
The workshop, going down from July 28 to 31, 2025, goals to
develop a technique and idea for a doc on the operational
and technical evaluation of potential websites utilized by the Ministry of
Protection and the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina (AFBiH).
The workshop was attended by Brigadier Common Dr. Jasmin Čajić,
Brigadier Common Radovan Jović, NATO HQ Sarajevo Commander
Brigadier Common Matthew Valas, Assistant Minister of Protection for
Coverage and Plans Dženan Redžo, UK Army Consultant in BiH
Colonel Edward Taylor, representatives of worldwide
organizations, and members of the Ministry of Protection and
AFBiH.
A letter from Minister Zukan Helez was learn by Brigadier Arnad
Kukuljac, conveying the Minister’s greetings and heat welcome.
Helez emphasised the significance of the exercise for the continued
improvement and strengthening of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s protection
capacities.
The Minister expressed confidence that contributors would
efficiently fulfill the workshop’s targets and that the consequence would
be a high-quality doc—an vital step towards a long-term
resolution for the standing and use of potential navy websites.
“I thank the embassies of the US and the United
Kingdom in Bosnia and Herzegovina for his or her continued help in
growing the Armed Forces. Particular thanks go to NATO Headquarters
Sarajevo, which has offered sturdy help from the start in
addressing the problem of potential and non-prospective navy
belongings—one thing of nice significance to the Ministry of Protection and
AFBiH. I sincerely hope this profitable cooperation continues in
the long run,” stated Minister Helez.
Common Matthew Valas additionally addressed the attendees:
“It’s an honor to open this preparatory workshop devoted to
creating a technique and idea for the doc on operational
and technical evaluation of the Armed Forces’ potential places.
It is a key step in establishing a structured, unified, and
criteria-based strategy to assessing navy websites outlined as
‘potential’ in our present protection planning framework.
The purpose is to create a shared understanding and sensible
toolkit that may allow you—and us—to guage every location primarily based
on clearly outlined operational, technical, and infrastructure
standards. These ought to mirror each present navy wants and
future improvement potential, aligned with NATO requirements, security
norms, logistical performance, and sustainability.
One of many key components of this course of is rationalizing the
present infrastructure. We absolutely acknowledge that your present
infrastructure is intensive, numerous, and in lots of instances inherited
underneath totally different circumstances. Rationalization doesn’t merely imply
downsizing—it means making considerate, strategic choices about
which websites are important, which may be consolidated, and which can
be candidates for repurposing or decision,” Valas emphasised.
The purpose of the workshop was to outline the weather for creating
a technique and idea doc for the operational and
technical evaluation of potential websites utilized by the Armed Forces of
BiH. Via evaluation of the authorized and possession standing of those
websites, the intention is to determine key challenges and suggest concrete
measures for addressing them in step with the precise wants of the
AFBiH.
