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| 12 Mar. 2010 |
 For two days the Polish capital has become a hub of discussion on NATO’s new Strategic Concept – a document that, once agreed by all Allies, will shape the organisation’s future direction. The Secretary General of NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, began his first official visit to Poland on 12 March by taking part in the international conference “NATO’s New Strategic Concept – Global, Transatlantic and Regional Challenges and Tasks”. |
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| 12 Mar. 2010 |
 On 12 March, the Georgian Deputy Prime Minister and State Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, Giorgi Baramidze, visited NATO Headquarters in Brussels and met with the Deputy Secretary General, Ambassador Claudio Bisogniero. |
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| 12 Mar. 2010 |
 During his first official visit to Poland on 12 March, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen met with Polish President Lech Kaczynski and held talks with Foreign and Defence Ministers Radoslaw Sikorski and Bogdan Klich. |
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| 12 Mar. 2010 |
 A NATO maritime task force handed over the command of the counter-piracy Operation Ocean Shield to the new task force of NATO ships from the Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 (SNMG2) on Friday, 12 March. The ships currently come from the UK (flagship), Greece, Italy, Turkey and USA. NATO warships have been conducting counter piracy patrols off the Horn of Africa, a strategically important area, since October 2008. |
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| 11 Mar. 2010 | 13 Mar. 2010 |
 The NATO Parliamentary Assembly will open its 73rd Rose-Roth Seminar in Yerevan on 11 March. The three-day seminar, entitled “Regional Developments in the South Caucasus: Challenges, Opportunities and Prospects”, will gather some 41 members of parliament from 16 NATO and partner countries, and 72 representatives from research institutes, non-governmental organisations, interparliamentary Assemblies, international organisations and NATO. |
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| 10 Mar. 2010 |
 During his visit to NATO Headquarters on 10 March, NATO’s Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan, Ambassador Mark Sedwill, briefed the North Atlantic Council on the progress of the military and civilian phases of Operation Moshtarak which is ongoing in southern Afghanistan. |
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| 08 Mar. 2010 |
 NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen recently said that greater empowerment and more effective protection of women against the dangers of armed conflicts benefits everyone, not only women. This 8 March, NATO is marking International Women’s Day by bringing prominent NATO women ‘back to school’ to encourage more future female leaders to take part in building peace and security. |
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| 08 Mar. 2010 |
 I congratulate the Iraqi Government and people on the elections held on 7 March. Regardless of the attempts of violent extremists, these elections represent yet another crucial achievement for the development of a full democratic Iraq. |
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| 08 Mar. 2010 |
 Finnish views on NATO's new Strategic Concept were discussed at a debate co-organised by NATO's Public Diplomacy Division, the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Finnish Foreign Policy Institute and the Atlantic Council of Finland in Helsinki on 3 March 2010. |
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| 08 Mar. 2010 |
 Grazing sheep near Saloglu, in the north-eastern corner of Azerbaijan, used to be a dangerous task. In an area of more than five square kilometres, hundreds of thousands of pieces of explosive material lay hidden from view at various depths below the rolling, shrub-covered land. Now thanks to a NATO Trust Fund project, a large part of the area has been cleared, and one day soon, the entire former military base will be safe for the local population. |
