Six years have passed since signing of the Police Cooperation Convention for Southeast Europe, which justifies my conclusion that this significant international document is setting the way to become one of the leading instruments of its kind in the SEE region, Macedonian Minister of Interior Gordana Jankuloska said Friday in Matrahaza, in Hungary.

What makes this document special, as well as a universal instrument, is the fact that it offers opportunities for applying a broad spectrum of modern methods, technologies that reflect the best police practices of the EU members, Jankuloska said.

Today's accession of Hungary to the Convention, as done previously by Bulgaria and Austria, presents an additional proof of the Convention's right course, she said at a session of the Committee of Ministers of the Police Cooperation Convention for Southeast Europe, being held at the sidelines of the Salzburg Forum Ministerial Meeting.

The Salzburg forum, whose members are Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia, focuses this year on issues of cooperation in battling illegal migration, human trafficking, and cyber crime.