News
| Date | Title | |
| 02 Dec. 2020 |  | NATO foreign ministers concluded two days of virtual meetings on Wednesday (2 December 2020) to discuss key issues, including NATO’s adaptation, Russia’s military build-up, the rise of China, and Afghanistan. |
| 01 Dec. 2020 |  |
NATO Foreign Ministers discuss future of the alliance, Afghanistan, Russia NATO Foreign Ministers met virtually on Tuesday (1 December 2020) to discuss key issues for the Alliance. They include an outside expert panel report on how to further adapt NATO for the future, Russia’s military build-up and NATO’s training mission in Afghanistan. |
| 30 Nov. 2020 |  |
Foreign Ministers meet to discuss NATO’s continued adaptation and global security challenges NATO Foreign Ministers will meet via secure video conference on Tuesday and Wednesday (1-2 December 2020) to discuss key issues for the Alliance. They include NATO’s continued adaptation, Russia’s military build-up, the rise of China, and NATO’s training mission in Afghanistan. |
| 30 Nov. 2020 |  |
Secretary General: NATO Foreign Ministers to address key issues for our Alliance On Monday (30 November 2020), NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg set out the issues that Allied Foreign Ministers will address during their virtual meeting on 1 and 2 December. Ministers will discuss the NATO 2030 initiative and the continued adaptation of the Alliance, Russia’s military build-up, the rise of China, and NATO’s mission in Afghanistan. |
| 25 Nov. 2020 |  | Lieutenant-General Per Pugholm Olsen of the Danish Armed Forces is the new Commander of the NATO Mission Iraq, following a change of command ceremony held in Baghdad on 24 November 2020. He succeeds Major-General Jennie Carignan of the Canadian Armed Forces, who had assumed command of the mission in November 2019. |
| 25 Nov. 2020 |  | |
| 25 Nov. 2020 |  | An independent group, co-chaired by Dr. Thomas de Maizière and Dr. Wess Mitchell, handed over on Wednesday (25 November) a report to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on how to make NATO an even stronger Alliance. The group’s report is one of a number of inputs into the Secretary General’s NATO 2030 initiative. |
| 25 Nov. 2020 |  | Speaking at the NATO-Private Sector Dialogue hosted by GLOBSEC on Wednesday (25 November), NATO Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoană said that NATO has to continue to compete in the battle space where conflicts are defined as much by bytes and big data as by bullets and battleships. |
| 24 Nov. 2020 |  |
NATO Secretary General addresses 2020 Afghanistan Conference Today (24 November 2020), NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg spoke virtually at the 2020 Afghanistan Donors’ Conference held in Geneva. “As part of the peace process, we have already significantly adjusted the NATO presence in Afghanistan, but the NATO mission will continue to train, advise and assist the Afghan security forces,” the Secretary General said, stressing that “at the same time, we are committed to help fund them through 2024, and NATO Allies have already made pledges for next year.” |
| 24 Nov. 2020 |  | Personnel from NATO and partner countries held a first virtual meeting from 16 to 18 November in order to exchange best practices from professional military education institutions using online platforms. Responding to the challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic, the NATO Defence Education Enhancement Programme (DEEP) hosted the event with the aim support the adaptation and development of professional military education to the new circumstances. |