On November 4th-5th, the Secretary General Thomas E. Garrett and the team of the Permanent Secretariat of the Community of Democracies (PSCD) traveled  to Bucharest to meet with the CoD Presidency to discuss the CoD 2020 Ministerial Conference.

The agenda included meetings with representatives of the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including the Secretary of State Dan Neculăescu, to discuss plans for the 2020 Ministerial Conference, which will be held in June 2020 in Romania and coincide with the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Warsaw Declaration and establishment of the Community of Democracies.

As part of the working visit, the PSCD team also met with representatives of youth organization and civil society.

The visit was made in a timing of the new government being installed by parliament.