ISTANBUL - Students were discussing NATO's future at the Istanbul Pan-Atlantic Student Summit (I-PASS), organized in parallel to the NATO Heads of State and Government Summit to start in Istanbul on Monday, sources said on Sunday.
More than 190 university students from 37 Alliance and Partnership for Peace (PfP) countries will meet with Alliance leaders to discuss the future of NATO and the challenges facing the transatlantic partnership at the conference held by the American Atlantic Council and the Atlantic Treaty Association (ATA).
Participating university students are expected to come to the conference hall on Monday, the first day of the NATO Heads of State and Government Summit, and listen to speakers including Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer.
Thirty-seven countries, including Turkey, the United States, France, German, Britain, Spain, Russia, Greece and some Balkan countries are being represented in the student summit.
NATO Secretary General Scheffer is expected to address I-PASS participants later on Sunday.
(BRC) 27.06.2004