News
| Date | Title | |
| 15 Apr. 2025 |  |
NATO Secretary General's joint press statement with President Zelenskyy in Odesa, Ukraine |
| 11 Apr. 2025 |  |
NATO Secretary General urges continued support at Ukraine Defence Contact Group meeting On Friday (11 April 2025) NATO Secretary General, Mark Rutte participated in a meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group (UDCG) at NATO headquarters. The meeting was hosted by the UK Defence Secretary, John Healey, and the German Minister of Defence, Boris Pistorius. |
| 09 Apr. 2025 |  | NATO Secretary General, Mark Rutte, made his first trip to the Indo-Pacific in this capacity this week (8-9 April 2025) where he was hosted by the Prime Minister of Japan, Shigeru Ishiba, in Tokyo, on Wednesday. They took stock of the long-standing partnership between NATO and Japan, agreeing a joint statement that aims to boost this relationship even further. |
| 04 Apr. 2025 |  | NATO Foreign Ministers wrapped up two days of meetings in Brussels on Friday (4 April 2025), focusing on preparations for the upcoming NATO Summit in The Hague, defence investment, burden sharing, Allied support to Ukraine, and cooperation with partners. |
| 20 Mar. 2025 |  |
NATO Aviation Committee meets in New Zealand to discuss future cooperation on air activities The NATO Aviation Committee was hosted by the Royal New Zealand Air Force in Christchurch, on 18-20 March 2025. This was the first time a NATO senior policy level committee met in the Indo-Pacific region, and a demonstration of NATO's commitment to boosting cooperation with its four Indo-Pacific partners (Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and the Republic of Korea). |
| 08 Mar. 2025 |  |
Meet Lieutenant Colonel Annukka Ylivaara, who commanded Finland’s Jaeger urban combat battalion In May 2022, just a few days before Finland applied to join NATO, Lieutenant Colonel Annukka Ylivaara took command of the Uusimaa Jaeger Battalion, the Finnish Army’s elite training unit for urban combat operations. She now serves at the Finnish Ministry of Defence and helps coordinate her country’s preparedness related to comprehensive security. How did her military journey start? And what does her country being a NATO member mean to her? |
| 24 Feb. 2025 |  | |
| 17 Feb. 2025 |  | Deputy Secretary General Radmila Shekerinska travelled to Bydgoszcz, Poland on Monday (17 February 2025) to participate in the opening ceremony of the NATO-Ukraine Joint Analysis, Training and Education Centre (JATEC). Speaking at the ceremony, the Deputy Secretary General said that the Centre’s work “will help the Alliance and Ukraine become stronger.” |
| 17 Feb. 2025 |  | NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte welcomed today (Monday 17 February 2025), Lt Gen (ret) Keith Kellogg, United States Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia, to the North Atlantic Council, for a discussion with Allies on ending the war against Ukraine. |
| 16 Feb. 2025 |  | Secretary General Mark Rutte attended the Munich Security Conference (MSC) on Friday and Saturday (14-15 February 2025). He stressed the need for a strong NATO, urging European Allies to increase their defence spending and take on more responsibility while calling for industry on both sides of the Atlantic to ramp up defence production. |