The South-East European Cooperation Process - SEECP - was established at Bulgaria's initiative in 1996, at a meeting in Sofia where the States of South-Eastern Europe laid foundations for regional cooperation aimed at creating a climate of trust, good neighbourliness and stability. The SEECP is unique in that it is a process set in motion at their own initiative, not at the initiative of other international organisations or States. Hence SEECP tries to grow into a cooperation process complementary to the Stability Pact (SP), SECI or the EU Stabilisation and Association Process for the States in the Region. The SEECP encompasses the following overall goals for enhanced regional cooperation: strengthening of security and political cooperation, intensification of economic relations expanded cooperation in Human Dimension, democracy, judiciary and struggle against illegal activities. SEECP strives to bring its members closer to Euroatlantic structures through transformation of the region into an area of peace and stability.