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Closing Remarks by NATO Deputy Secretary General Ambassador Alexander Vershbow at the Chicago Young Atlanticists’ Summit21 May. 2012 gone through over the past two decades. And it has been fascinating to be part of that transformation, and to help move it forward. During the 1990s, the Alliance turned from a static organisation aimed at keeping the Warsaw Pact at bay into a real | Opinion |
Interview with Hüseyin Diriöz, NATO Assistant Secretary General for Defence Policy and Planning20 Dec. 2011 Warsaw Pact, and reached out to Russia, Ukraine and other nations of the Euro-Atlantic region as well as the Mediterranean and the Middle East. The Alliance undertook its first operations in the Balkan conflicts of the nineties. NATO’s first ever | |
20 years of engaging partners20 Dec. 2011 the North Atlantic Cooperation Council as a forum for dialogue with its former Warsaw Pact adversaries on 20 December 1991. This marked the start of the Allies’ policy of cooperative security, now considered one of NATO’s three essential core tasks. Over | News |
Statement by NATO Secretary General on the death of Vaclav Havel18 Dec. 2011 towards that future - including taking the Czech Republic into NATO in 1999 in the very first enlargement to countries of the former Warsaw Pact. He was an extraordinary man who led his country through an extraordinary time. He will be remembered around | News, Pressrelease |
Fifty years of defending NATO’s skies22 Jul. 2011 the Cold War, surveillance was backed by fighter aircraft on high alert and belts of surface-to-air missile (SAM) units arrayed to counter any acts of aggression from Warsaw Pact nations. This first line defence ensured that NATO would never be caught | News |
From environmental hazard to safe fertilizer12 May. 2011 in small and medium-range missiles by Soviet forces, melange is a highly toxic substance. Thousands of tonnes of melange are still present in several countries of the former Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. In some places, this highly corrosive fluid is eating | News |
From environmental hazard to safe fertilizer12 May. 2011 in small and medium-range missiles by Soviet forces, melange is a highly toxic substance. Thousands of tonnes of melange are still present in several countries of the former Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. In some places, this highly corrosive fluid is eating | News |
''NATO and Russia: why cooperation counts'' - Speech by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen at the Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago11 May. 2011 . Some in the West thought that Russia would align its interests with ours. And many in Russia thought that, since the Warsaw Pact had dissolved, NATO should too. Both these expectations proved to be plain wrong. They hampered the relationship | Opinion |
''NATO as a guarantor of territorial defence and a provider of global security'' - Speech by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen at the conference ''NATO Talk around the Brandenburger Tor'' - Berlin - 26 November 200926 Nov. 2009 plans – including for this very city. There were regular large-scale exercises. There were large, heavy and static land forces, as well as significant air forces pre-positioned to defend Germany and Allied territory against any attack by the Warsaw Pact | Opinion |
Statement by the NATO Secretary General on the passing away of Pierre Harmel16 Nov. 2009 1967. The "Harmel Doctrine" advocated a strong defence combined with good diplomatic relations with the countries of the Warsaw Pact, and helped to pave the way for the East-West détente of the early 1970s. While the international security situation | News, Opinion, Pressrelease |
