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Remarks by NATO Deputy Secretary General Ambassador Alexander Vershbow at the Star of Romania Award Ceremony in Bucharest30 Aug. 2016 in efforts to transcend and dismantle the barriers which, for too long, divided Europe. I remember it as a time of excitement and optimism. The West reaching out to former Warsaw Pact nations – including a democratic Russia – in pursuit of peaceful | Opinion |
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg talks to POLITICO06 Jun. 2016 online by tagging your questions or your comments with a tag PlaybookCocktails. And obviously we'll also take questions throughout and at the end of the interview tonight. It's going to be a fun hour in the lead-up to the NATO Warsaw Summit. NATO | |
Press conference with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and members of the Bundespressekonferenz ''The Warsaw Summit – Adapting NATO in Turbulent Times” - Secretary General's opening remarks02 Jun. 2016 Union and the Warsaw Pact is something very different from today's Russia. And the Cold War was also characterized by much more ideological confrontation between NATO, the West and the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union. It was a global rivalry. And I'm | Opinion |
''Our security cannot be taken for granted'' - Keynote speech by NATO Deputy Secretary General Ambassador Alexander Vershbow at the Jagello Conference, Prague29 May. 2016 of the partnership tools that we are extending to the Middle East and North Africa were first developed here, in Central and Eastern Europe. They helped former Warsaw Pact countries transform their militaries and, in the case of 12 nations, become members | Opinion |
''Strong on Values, Strong on Defence: NATO's Role in Projecting Stability to the East and South'' - Speech by NATO Deputy Secretary General Alexander Vershbow at the Henry Jackson Society (UK Houses of Parliament)23 May. 2016 of central and eastern Europe were forced to join the Warsaw Pact, these same countries voluntarily sought membership in NATO. And when they joined, we assured Russia that enlargement was not directed against them, that it would not lead to the deployment | Opinion |
Deterrence for the 21st Century - Opening remarks by NATO Deputy Secretary General Alexander Vershbow at the Berlin Security Conference 201517 Nov. 2015 and many members of the old Warsaw Pact sought and found membership in NATO. The world had changed. This did not mean that deterrence was no longer important. But the specific threat had subsided – from a real and present danger, to a more | Opinion |
General Bartels bids farewell to NATO as General Pavel starts his tenure as Chairman of the NATO Military Committee26 Jun. 2015 address. This is an important moment in the history of the Alliance as General Pavel is the first representative of a former Warsaw Pact nation to become Chairman of the Military Committee. In his welcome address, General Pavel commended General | News |
General Bartels bids farewell to NATO as General Pavel starts his tenure as Chairman of the NATO Military Committee26 Jun. 2015 address. This is an important moment in the history of the Alliance as General Pavel is the first representative of a former Warsaw Pact nation to become Chairman of the Military Committee. In his welcome address, General Pavel commended General | News |
Press conference by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg following the meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Commission13 May. 2015 period after the Second World War until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Because during the Cold War we had two military blocs: NATO and the Warsaw Pact standing against each other. And we also had... And there was ideological fight against two | Opinion |
1990 Summit: a turning point in 'East-West' relations18 Dec. 2014 Europe and the Soviet Union .” Extending a “hand of friendship” At London, NATO extended a “hand of friendship” to the former Warsaw Pact, inviting them to form a new relationship with NATO. The Verbatim Record reflects the desire | Feature, News |