NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

23 Apr. 2013

Meetings of NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs

NATO Headquarters , Brussels, Belgium

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Statement by NATO Foreign Ministers on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
23 Apr. 2013

Monday 22 April 2013
15:00	NATO-Australia bilateral meeting
16:30	NATO-US bilateral meeting

Tuesday 23 April 2013
08:15	Doorstep statement by the NATO Secretary General	ENG	Orig FR		natochannel.tv
08:25	Bilateral meeting NATO-Italy
09:00	Meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Foreign Ministers session
09:00	• Opening remarks by the NATO Secretary General	ENG	Orig		natochannel.tv
11:10	Official portrait of NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs
11:20	Bilateral meeting NATO-Russia
11:45	Meeting of the NATO-Russia Council (NRC) in Foreign Ministers session
11:45	• Opening remarks by the NATO Secretary General	ENG	Orig		natochannel.tv
13:30	Press conference by the NATO Secretary General
	• Opening remarks by the NATO Secretary General	ENG	Orig		natochannel.tv
	• Questions and answers	ENG	Orig		natochannel.tv
14:00	Working lunch of NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs (no media coverage)
15:30	Press conference by the Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation
16:30	Meeting of the NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs with non-NATO ISAF contributing nations
16:30	• Opening remarks by the NATO Secretary General	ENG	Orig		natochannel.tv
17:00	Press conference by the US Secretary of State
19:15	Press conference by the NATO Secretary General
	• Opening remarks by the NATO Secretary General	ENG	Orig		natochannel.tv
	• Questions and answers	ENG	Orig		natochannel.tv

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NATO’s support to Afghan army sustainment takes shape
23 Apr. 2013

Foreign ministers from NATO and ISAF partner nations made progress in shaping NATO’s long-term support to Afghanistan at a meeting in Brussels on Tuesday (23 April 2013). “Today we agreed on the means to ensure transparency and accountability in our future funding mechanisms of the Afghan security forces. This is an important pillar of the international community’s wider commitment to sustaining Afghanistan in the years to come,” NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said.
NATO-Russia Council expands support to Afghan Air Force
23 Apr. 2013

NATO Foreign Ministers together with their Russian counterpart, Minister Sergey Lavrov, agreed to expand their support for the Afghan Air Force during a meeting of the NATO-Russia Council (NRC) on Tuesday (23 April). “Today we launched the second phase of the NATO-Russia Trust Fund for the maintenance of helicopters in Afghanistan,” said NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
Statement by NATO Foreign Ministers on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
23 Apr. 2013

NATO Foreign Ministers condemn in the strongest possible terms the continued development by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) of ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programmes, and its recent inflammatory and threatening rhetoric.

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Media Backgrounder - Transition to Afghan lead: Inteqal (April 2013)
PDF / 485.25 kb
Media Backgrounder - NATO-Russia practical cooperation (April 2013)
PDF / 180.20 kb
Media Backgrounder - Equipping and sustaining the Afghan National Army (ANA) (ANA Trust Fund - April 2013)
PDF / 231.08 kb
KFOR ''placemat'' (Contributing nations and troop numbers) - 19 April 2013
PDF / 348.95 kb
ISAF "placemat" (Contributing nations and troop numbers) - 22 April 2013
PDF / 824.52 kb

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