News
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| 20 Sep. 2024 |  | NATO Allies gathered for the REPMUS 24 exercise in Portugal to test the ability of autonomous systems to operate together and to increase Alliance understanding of new threats in the maritime environment. They are joined by representatives of partner countries and organisations, NATO commands, research institutions and industry. REPMUS (Robotic Experimentation and Prototyping with Maritime Unmanned Systems) is the world’s leading experimentation exercise with maritime unmanned systems. REPMUS 24 is being held around the Troia Peninsula in Portugal from 9 to 27 September 2024. |
| 19 Sep. 2024 |  | From 10 to 20 September 2024, over 450 participants from 19 NATO Allies and three partner-countries gathered in the Netherlands to test the ability of commercially available counter-drone systems to operate seamlessly together. Ukraine participated for the first time, alongside members of the private sector and research community. |
| 19 Sep. 2024 |  | Speaking at an event hosted by the German Marshall Fund on Thursday (19 September 2024), Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg shared five key lessons for NATO’s continued success following a decisive decade at the helm of NATO. |
| 18 Sep. 2024 |  | NATO’s Special Representative for the Southern Neighbourhood, Javier Colomina, travelled to the Arab Republic of Egypt on 17 and 18 September 2024 for his first visit to the region in this new capacity. He met with high level officials, including from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to take stock of NATO-Egypt relations and exchange views on regional security issues. |
| 18 Sep. 2024 |  |
Meet Myriam Andaloro, a NATO cultural expert on the Middle East and Africa Myriam Andaloro is a Digital and Cultural Consultant at the NATO Strategic Direction-South Hub – the centre dedicated to increasing NATO’s understanding of and cooperation with partners across the Middle East and Africa. An Italian national of Lebanese descent, Myriam works to establish appropriate and respectful communication with NATO’s southern neighbours by reducing the risk for cultural misunderstandings and raising awareness about cultural sensitivities. |
| 17 Sep. 2024 |  |
A Decade of Progress: Marking 10 Years of the Substantial NATO-Georgia Package Georgia and NATO marked the 10th anniversary of the Substantial NATO-Georgia Package (SNGP) at the NATO-Georgia Joint Training and Evaluation Centre (JTEC) near Tbilisi, on 17 September 2024, at a ceremony attended by senior officials from NATO and Georgia. |
| 17 Sep. 2024 |  | NATO’s Assistant Secretary General for Operations, Tom Goffus, joined Mr. Stefano Tomat, Civilian Operations Commander at the European Union External Action Service, in separate meetings with the chief negotiators of Belgrade and Pristina. The meetings took place in the margins of the EU-facilitated Dialogue hosted by the EU Special Representative for the Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue and other Western Balkans issues, Mr. Miroslav Lajcak. |
| 16 Sep. 2024 |  |
NATO and the Republic of Moldova further boost defence education cooperation Representatives from the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Moldova visited NATO Headquarters on 10 September 2024, where they met with a range of officials from NATO’s International Staff and experts in the domain of defence education. |
| 14 Sep. 2024 |  |
NATO Military Committee gathers in Prague for its annual conference Today, 14 September 2024, NATO’s highest Military Authority meets in Prague, Czech Republic, for the annual Military Committee Conference. The meeting will discuss military strategic developments within the Alliance, in light of the decisions taken at the NATO Summit in Washington DC in July 2024. |
| 13 Sep. 2024 |  |
The NATO Chiefs of Defence met in Prague to implement Washington summit decisions At the invitation of Lieutenant General Karel Řehka, Chief of the Czech Armed Forces, the Allied Chiefs of Defence gathered in Prague from 13 to 15 September 2024 for their annual Military Committee Conference. On the agenda was the implementation of the decisions taken at the Washington Summit in July 2024. The Chiefs of Defence discussed how NATO will bolster its deterrence and defence while at the same time ramping up its support for Ukraine. |