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Opening remarks by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the NATO Youth Summit 2022 followed by Q&A28 Apr. 2022 or at the beginning of 1990s, NATO had 16 members, Western Europe, North America. Now we have 30 members, almost twice as many and of course, with Central Eastern Europe former Warsaw Pact countries and of course that helped to spread democracy and freedom across | Opinion |
Remarks by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in the discussion: ''New World (Dis-)Order'' organized by the Körber Stiftung and Der Spiegel18 Jan. 2022 forces in West Berlin that could anyway stand up against the Red Army or the Warsaw Pact forces if they decided to invade West Berlin. But West Berlin was never invaded or attacked, because they knew that the whole NATO, including the United States, were | Opinion |
Press conference by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg following the meeting of the NATO-Russia Council12 Jan. 2022 , is absolutely not true. NATO enlargement has been a cornerstone for the spread of democracy and freedom across Europe. Because countries that were formerly part of the Warsaw Pact of the Soviet Union, they have actually freely, through independent democratic | Opinion |
Remarks by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in a panel discussion at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Symposium in Berlin08 Dec. 2021 , there was a communist, violent regime that was aggressive. We were surrounded by the territory of the Warsaw Pact. We were kind of an island that was supplied by... or externally, and we had nothing in common with the communists. We had no dealings with them. Willy | Opinion |
Germany and NATO - 1955. West Germany’s accession to NATO marked a turning point in the Cold War. Little more than one week later, on 14 May 1955, the Soviet Union formed the Warsaw Pact , which included the German Democratic Republic (also known as East Germany). The Iron | |
Conversation on ''The Future of NATO'' with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and students of the University of South Florida (USF)25 Mar. 2021 of the Warsaw Pact, a lot of countries in Central and Eastern Europe they got their freedom, they got the possibility to decide their own future themselves. And this is enshrined in many documents, which are also subscribed to by Russia, that it is actually | Opinion |
Discussion with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the Council on Foreign Relations' "Morse Lecture" series12 Mar. 2021 .. it has enabled change. Because as I briefly mentioned, for 40 years NATO did one thing and that was to deter the Soviet Union in Europe. Period. And then, suddenly, the Soviet Union was dissolved and the Warsaw Pact disappeared. And then people asked | Opinion |
Interview with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the Goldman Sachs event "Talks at GS"10 Mar. 2021 those challenges. JENS STOLTENBERG [NATO Secretary General]: The Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, that was the main reason for NATO's existence for decades. Russia is very different from the Soviet Union and, for some years after the end | Opinion |
NATO: keeping Europe safe in an uncertain world - Speech by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the College of Europe in Bruges04 Mar. 2021 , especially after the Berlin Wall came down and the Cold War ended. Because then, former members of the Warsaw Pact, they first joined NATO and then a few years later they, most of them, decided to join the European Union. And through the enlargement of NATO | Opinion |
Greece and NATO - 1952invasion of Czechoslovakia (and later Afghanistan in 1979) reaffirmed the value of NATO membership for Greece. Alliance protection against the Warsaw Pact continued to be vital. Nike surface-to-air missiles formed part of its air defence, although Athens | Declassified |
