News
| Date | Title | |
| 09 Jan. 2023 |  |
NATO, EU and US consult on developments in Kosovo, Western Balkans Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoană welcomed US Deputy Assistant Secretary Gabriel Escobar and the EU Special Representative for the Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue and other Western Balkan regional issues, Miroslav Lajčák, to NATO Headquarters on Monday (9 January 2023). Their meeting was part of regular consultations on the situation in Kosovo and developments in the broader Western Balkans region. |
| 09 Jan. 2023 |  | NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg was awarded the Sønsteby prize on Monday (9 January 2023) at a ceremony in Oslo, Norway. |
| 08 Jan. 2023 |  |
Secretary General: Sweden and Finland’s NATO membership will make us all safer In a speech at the Folk och Försvar Security Conference in Sälen, Sweden on Sunday (8 January 2023), Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg underlined that in a more dangerous world, “it is even more important that Sweden and Finland become NATO members”. |
| 05 Jan. 2023 |  |
NATO Secretary General in Oslo: ''no lasting peace'' if tyranny prevails over freedom NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg stressed the importance of supporting Ukraine, including with more weapons, in a speech to the Annual Conference of the Norwegian Confederation of Enterprises in Oslo on Thursday (5 January 2023). |
| 05 Jan. 2023 |  |
NATO-led KFOR mission dismantles last barricades in northern Kosovo On Thursday (5 January 2023), the NATO-led KFOR mission completed the removal of several vehicles blocking roads in northern Kosovo, through the deployment of engineer units to the areas of Duda’s Rock and Srbovac arterial route. |
| 02 Jan. 2023 |  |
NATO Military Chiefs of Defence Meeting, 18-19 January 2023 - Media advisory NATO’s highest Military Authority, the Military Committee, will meet in person on 18-19 January 2023, in Brussels, Belgium. Admiral Rob Bauer, Chair of the Military Committee, will preside over the meeting, which will be attended by the Allied Chiefs of Defence and their counterparts from Invitees Finland and Sweden. They will be supported by General Christopher Cavoli, Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), and General Philippe Lavigne, Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (SACT), who will each lead a session. |
| 28 Dec. 2022 |  | On Sunday (1 January 2023), Germany takes the lead of NATO's highest-readiness military force, placing thousands of troops on standby and ready to deploy within days. |
| 21 Dec. 2022 |  | On Wednesday (21 December), NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, joined other international landmarks and switched off lights at 20.00 local time in solidarity with Ukraine. |
| 21 Dec. 2022 |  |
Secretary General's end of year message to NATO troops and veterans Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg released a holiday greeting to NATO troops and veterans on Tuesday (20 December 2022), thanking them for their service and commitment at the end of "a year like no other". He said: "faced with the biggest security crisis in Europe since World War Two, NATO has responded with strength and unity", praising Allied forces for their "essential role". |
| 20 Dec. 2022 |  |
NATO approves 2023 strategic direction for new innovation accelerator On 12 December 2022, the Board of Directors of NATO’s Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) agreed that energy resilience, secure information sharing and sensing and surveillance will be the priority areas of focus for DIANA’s work on Emerging and Disrupting Technologies (EDTs) in 2023. |