During the three days of the Young Reserve Officers Outreach Seminar (YROS), 17 members from the armed forces of five different nations took advantage of the opportunity to learn from each other, as well as from experienced senior officers.

Forty representatives of fourteen member and associate member countries attended. Seizing upon the opportunity of the National Day of Reserves, a delegation of CIOR took part in the remembrance ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe presided by Jean-Yves Le Drian, Minister of Defence.

I was very pleased to welcome your President, Commander (R) Richard Roll to Norfolk in January, together with Major General Georges Lebel (FRAAR), Chairman of the National Reserve Forces Committee.

The 24thannual CIOR Pre-Midwinter Seminar has taken place at the conference center of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS), SchlossEichholz, Wesseling, between Cologne and Bonn, Germany, from January 27 to 30, 2013. The general topic was about “NATO’s CHALLENGES FOLLOWING THE CHICAGO SUMMIT”.

CIOR and NATO’s Connected Forces initiative – strategic lines for the future of Reserves - Interview of the President of CIOR on the Connected Forces Initiative.