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"The impact of September 11th on the Alliance" - Video lecture with Jamie Shea, NATO Temporary Spokesman12 Jan. 2004 of challenge. Now NATO did immediately after September the 11th for the first time in its history invoke the Article 5, our mutual defence clause. Something of an irony that it was invoked for an attack against America or an American territory and not because | Opinion |
Video interview with Ambassador Imants Liegis, Head of the Mission of Latvia to NATO09 Jan. 2004 countries. Because of our geographical location and our history, we have a very special situation vis-à-vis Russia, it's a very important neighbouring country of ours. And that's why when the NATO-Russia Council was founded with the summit meeting in Rome | Opinion |
"Transforming NATO's military structures" by General James L. Jones, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe01 Jan. 2004 , Allied forces would have fought close to home and relied on national logistics located only a short distance from the battlefield. Today, NATO forces must be prepared to deploy to, and sustain themselves in, any location in the world. A new Command | Opinion |
Farewell speech to the Council by NATO Secretary General, Lord Robertson17 Dec. 2003 and Belgrade's greatest short term ambition, four years after being bombed by NATO, is to be in our Partnership for Peace. In 1995 the pundits said IFOR was 'mission impossible'. In 1999 the same pundits said stopping Milosovic's rape of Kosovo was 'mission | Opinion |
NATO as a peacekeeper Video lecture by Jamie Shea,Deputy Assistant Secretary General for External Relations and acting NATO ...15 Dec. 2003 innocent civilians and then NATO issued its final warning, peace talks were tried unsuccessfully at Rambouillet and then NATO conducted the riskiest, the most ambitious operation in its entire history, the 78-day air campaign against Yugoslavia that went | Opinion |
Speech by NATO Secretary General, Lord Robertsonat the Winston Churchill Lecture24 Nov. 2003 in the Alliance's long and distinguished history. NATO had long since ceased to be a Cold War warrior. During the 1990s the Alliance intervened to bring peace and security to stricken Bosnia after the bloodiest civil war in recent European history. It acted | Opinion |
Press Briefing by Admiral Edmund P. Giambastiani, Jr. U.S. Navy, Supreme Allied Commander, Transformation13 Nov. 2003 Good afternoon to all of you and it's a pleasure to join you here at NATO Headquarters. What I wanted to do is spend just a couple of moments opening up with a short statement to tell you a little bit about Allied Command Transformation and then I'll | Opinion |
Speech by NATO Secretary General, Lord Robertsonat the Atlantic Treaty Association's 49th General Assembly10 Nov. 2003 , conflicting interests or incompatible world views are taking a blinkered, short term approach to the transatlantic relationship on which NATO is based. Our unique partnership was born in common philosophies of freedom and democracy. It was forged during half | Opinion |
Speech by NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson23 Oct. 2003 . Within a couple of months the decade-long argument over whether NATO could or should act beyond Europe was confined to the history books. So NATO remains the transatlantic organisation where Turkey can shape international security together with America | Opinion |
Speech by NATO Secretary General, Lord Robertsonat the Grandes Conférences Catholiques21 Oct. 2003 by explicitly agreeing that today's security challenges must be confronted at their source. Traditional arguments about whether NATO could or should operate outside Europe were consigned to school history texts. Critics who had challenged us to go out of area | Opinion |
