On 10-12 December 2025, the CEI – Executive Secretariat participated in the 8th Workshop for Young Diplomats from the BSEC Member States, held in Istanbul under the title “Building Tomorrow: Project Implementation for Sustainable Growth in the BSEC Region”.
Following up on the recent annual Coordination Meeting of Regional Organisations (Sarajevo, 4 December 2025), the workshop brought together young diplomats from ten BSEC Member States, including four CEI countries (Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania and Serbia). Participants engaged in dynamic exchanges on key issues such as economic diplomacy, regional cooperation, connectivity, blue growth, and sustainable development, topics of increasing relevance to the global agenda and central to the responsibilities future diplomats will face.
The CEI Secretariat contributed to the programme with an intervention highlighting the Organisation’s approach combining multilateral diplomacy with project-oriented cooperation. The presentation also showcased CEI activities in the field of science diplomacy, including its co-chairmanship of the EU Science Diplomacy Alliance.
The event reaffirmed the importance of strengthened regional cooperation and highlighted the potential for synergies between CEI and BSEC initiatives. It further demonstrated the significant role regional organisations play in promoting and safeguarding multilateralism within an increasingly fragmented geopolitical landscape.
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