Dear colleagues and friends,

First of all I would like to thank our hosts for their effort in.comanising this edition of the AMAPSEEC Conference. I do know what this implies. To hold such a scientific reunion is not an easy task at all. I also thank you for the last wonderful evening. It deeply impressed me.

I attended all the editions of our conference and the previous ones offered me surprises! In Aranđelovac after one evening where I did my best dancing the next day one of my dance partners from Serbia (one of the three I danced with at the same time!) couldn't walk without a walking stick! I was dangerous!

In Chalkidiki our Greek colleagues thought they should baptise me once more, so they favoured my plunge into the pool though I was dressed. I look forward for a surprise here in Nitra but it hasn't occurred yet!

I wish to assure you that we the Romanians, the most numerous group here (27, while in Aranđelovac we were only 13) appreciate the setting up of this scientific society and we’ll try to support it for its future progress and development. We’ll certainly be the host of one of the proximate editions of this conference. Talking to some of my Romanian colleagues here in Nitra we came to the idea that the fourth edition might be held by ourselves. When we’ll be back in our country we’ll talk to other colleagues about the possibility of.comanising the 4-th Conference in Romania in 2006 and inform Mr. Ristic on our final decision.

We didn’t come here prepared for such an offer and that is why we can’t be certain about it. The possible Romanian locations are, for the moment, Iasi, Piatra Neamt or Bacau. We’ll inform you quite soon.

No matter which country is going to host the next edition I confess that we expect more from these reunions concerning new scientific collaboration between us, lay the basis of joint research teams to get funds within European programs, elaborating and publishing together valuable scientific papers, editing our own review and so on.

I’d like to thank our colleagues from Serbia and Montenegro and also Greece for the manner they held the previous conferences, and once again our fellows from Slovak Republic for their goodwill in solving all our demands before and during this conference and also for their hospitality in this three-day staying in Nitra.

Last but not least I’d like to thank Mr. Mihailo Ristic and his colleagues from Serbia and Montenegro for keeping us together as a real group, like a family which expanded with every new edition, being here heart and soul. I thank Mihailo for struggling to make this scientific association viable. We admit that if we talk about the future location of this conference, the discussion won’t be present without Mihailo’s devotion and energy to make this association come true instead of a simple idea.

Thank you and I wish you luck!

Prof. Dr. Gogu Gh.comhita

University of Bacau, Romania