On February 8, 2023, a member of the Youth Section of the Euro-Atlantic Council of Slovenia, Matic Kosirnik, visited the NATO headquarters in Brussels, where he held several talks with officials of the Defense Policy and Planning (DPP) division and with Assoc. dr. Erik Kopač, ambassador and head of the RS mission to NATO.

They mainly discussed NATO’s challenges in dealing with various security threats that threaten member states, the provision of collective defense based on Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, broader international security, and the war in Ukraine.