Foreign Ministry Secretary General Opened NATO Military Committee Terminology Conference
12.10.2009
Foreign Ministry Secretary General Marten Kokk opened the NATO Military Committee Terminology Fall Conference being held in Tallinn on Monday, 12 October.
While opening the conference, Secretary General Marten Kokk emphasised that Estonia
is pleased to be hosting the event. Secretary General Kokk stated that
harmonising military and security vocabulary and language is necessary
so that NATO member states can converse amongst one another without
difficulty. “The comprehensibility and clarity of terminology and the
general comprehension of it are pre-requisites for even better
co-operation within the alliance,” said Kokk.
In his speech, Secretary General
Kokk also highlighted the importance of the military and security and
defence policy terminology commission working at the Ministry of
Defence. “The terminology commission has done excellent work in
supplementing the Estonian-language technical vocabulary with specialty
terminology in our own language, and the commission has also played a
significant part in the preparations for this conference,” Kokk noted.
The conference, taking place in Tallinn from 12-16 October, was organised in co-operation by the Ministry of Defence, Foreign Ministry, and NATO Secretariat.
