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Doorstep statement by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the start of the meetings of NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs01 Dec. 2015 on for several years and its part of what NATO does and its part of our long term commitment to an ally, Turkey so what we already have in Turkey is that Spain is providing a patriot battery, to support Turkey’s air defences. The United States has deployed | Opinion |
''NATO and current European security challenges'' - Remarks by NATO Deputy Secretary General Ambassador Alexander Vershbow at a seminar hosted by Folk och Försvar (People and Defence), Stockholm12 Jun. 2015 long way off. President Putin has chosen anti-Western rhetoric and nationalist self-assertion as the basis for his regime. He has sought to justify Russia’s aggressive actions on the basis of a false narrative of Western encirclement | Opinion |
Adapting to a changed security environment - Speech by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington D.C. (incl. Q&A session)27 May. 2015 destabilisation of Ukraine have brought armed conflict back to Europe. This conflict has already cost over 6,000 lives. There are continuous ceasefire violations, and heavy fighting could flare up at any moment. That is why I fully support | Opinion |
Remarks by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg before the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee and Sub-committee on Security and Defence (followed by Q&A session)31 Mar. 2015 of that. And we are working with the European Union on ways to spend smarter to increase efficiency. But in the long run, it's not possible to get more out of less. So the time has come to invest more in defence; because in reality the world has | Opinion |
"Zero-Sum? Russia, Power Politics, and the post-Cold War Era" - Session at the Brussels Forum with participation of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg20 Mar. 2015 and with Europe," and if so, how do we get there. I hope we'll talk about how NATO should respond to current events and whether NATO can work with Russia to find the exit ramp that President Obama so often has described in this crisis, which would take you out | Opinion |
''Prospects for NATO-Russia relations'' - Keynote address by NATO Deputy Secretary General Ambassador Alexander Vershbow at the 2015 Leangkollen Conference, Oslo02 Feb. 2015 . It has returned to a strategy of power politics. It threatens not just Ukraine, but European and global security more generally. And it is pursuing this strategy even as the costs to its own prosperity and reputation grow. To the South, violent | Opinion |
Keynote address by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the 60th Plenary Session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in The Hague (including Q&A session)24 Nov. 2014 these efforts must be properly resourced. And our military needs long term investment and political support. For readiness comes at a cost. If we look around the world, while NATO has cut defence spending, others have rapidly increased | Opinion |
"Security challenges in the Baltic region in the perspective of the Wales NATO Summit" - Remarks by NATO Deputy Secretary General Ambassador Alexander Vershbow at Multinational Corps (North East), Szczecin (Poland)18 Sep. 2014 . We did not have to make these commitments; but we did, because we no longer saw Russia as the enemy and we wanted Russia to understand that. Sadly, President Putin has now chosen a different approach. During his first term as President | Opinion |
Wales Summit: the rollout of NATO 4.0 - Remarks by NATO Deputy Secretary General Ambassador Alexander Vershbow at the NATO Future Leaders Summit, Cardiff – 5 September 201405 Sep. 2014 . For the moment, Russia has decided to ‘opt-out’ of this vision. But the days of spheres of influence in Europe are long gone. And NATO will continue to defend the principle that every country in Europe should be free to choose its own future. We | Opinion |
The challenges facing NATO - Remarks by NATO Deputy Secretary General Alexander Vershbow at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. London02 Sep. 2014 Vladimir Putin as well. But in the last few years, Russia has become a nationalist and revisionist power, one that violates international law and uses military power to achieve its geopolitical ends at the expense of its neighbours and wider European | Opinion |
