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partnership collaboration among all BSEC Member States. The Observer States, and
particularly Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Israel and the United States can play a much
greater role than in the past in the formulation and implementation of regional projects
in fields of priority interest for the area and the whole of Europe. The OSCE, the European
Union and the Council of Europe are in a position to render a great service to the cause
of European peace, security, stability and democracy by focusing more their attention
on the needs, concerns and aspirations of the nations of the wider Black Sea area and
on the problems and challenges they are faced with.
As far as the approach to these problems and challenges is concerned, it must be one
based on cooperation, negotiation and common agreement among the parties concerned,
with international assistance when required. As explained by Magnus Norell, senior
analyst of the Swedish Defence Research Agency, efficient protection even against such
a most dangerous challenge to security as terrorism, must mainly be based on clear
anti-terrorist and counter-terrorist strategies and on a good coordination of police-military
anti-terrorist operations, backed up by enhanced regional and trans-regional cooperation
in the field of intelligence. 8 This approach is, by the way, prevalent in the 1998 BSEC
Agreement on Cooperation for Combating Organised Crime in all its forms and
manifestations.
8 Norell, Magnus (2000), ‘The Role of the Military and Intelligence in Combating Terrorism’, in Romanian Journal
of International Affairs, vol. VIII, no. 4, Romanian Institute of International Studies, Bucharest, pp. 41-59.
110 UNFOLDING THE BLACK SEA ECONOMIC COOPERATION VIEWS FROM THE REGION