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Intervention by Supreme Allied Command Transformation General Palmeros, at the 2013 Building Integrity (BI) Conference, in Monterey, the United States18 Mar. 2013 . As a result of a set of complicated and interlinked situations and circumstances peculiar to each operation, all local forces’ education and training support must be developed and delivered on a case-by case basis. The best current example is the support | Opinion |
''NATO after ISAF – staying successful together'' - remarks by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen at the Munich Security Conference02 Feb. 2013 stress. This does not mean we will have to intervene everywhere. Nor that we are set for confrontation. But it does mean we must stand ready to deter, and defend against, any threat. So we have to keep our operational edge, and retain the complete | Opinion |
Secretary General's Annual Report 201231 Jan. 2013 saw many other examples of Alliance solidarity. At our Chicago Summit in May, we renewed our commitment to a sovereign, secure and democratic Afghanistan. We agreed that our current combat mission will be completed by the end of 2014, when our Afghan | Opinion |
Secretary General’s Monthly Press Conference and launch of the Annual Report for 2012 - Opening remarks and Q&A31 Jan. 2013 . A follow up to the question of the colleague of Reuters, the hit of Israel in Syria: Does it mean... does it have any impact on the security situation of the NATO mission along the border, the Turkish-Syrian border? Is there a certain step of alarm? We have | Opinion |
Press briefing on the deployment of Patriot Missiles to Turkey by NATO Spokesperson Oana Lungescu and Brigadier General Gary Deakin, Director of SHAPE Comprehensive Crisis and Operations Management Center (CCOMC)23 Jan. 2013 , then they're ready to help out. And my aim will be to really tell you the story as we see it right now, where we've come from and where we are at the moment, and then where we see this augmentation of Turkey's air defence going to. And currently, it's | Opinion |
Press briefing with Major General Jim Ferron, Deputy Commanding General, NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan (NTM-A) and Major General M. Zahir Azimi, Afghan lead for the NATO Training Mission, moderated by Chris Riley, NATO Press Officer03 Dec. 2012 is currently double-hatted as the Commanding General of the Canadian Military Mission in Afghanistan and the Deputy Commanding General of the NATO Training Mission in Afghanistan. And alongside him is an old friend of NATO, an old friend of myself, General | Opinion |
NATO in 2020: Strong capabilities, strong partnerships : Keynote speech by NATO Deputy Secretary General Ambassador Alexander Vershbow at the conference ''NATO and the global structure of security: the future of partnerships'', Bucharest, Romania19 Nov. 2012 . 352,000 Afghan National Security Forces – both Army and Police – have already been recruited, and are currently being trained and fielded. Their quality and effectiveness have been growing steadily. These Afghan forces are now in the lead for providing | Opinion |
''NATO and Finland: building security together in the 21st century'' - speech by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen in Helsinki, Finland on 15 November 201215 Nov. 2012 with Sweden, when you made a valuable contribution to the development of our new Strategic Concept. And of course, Finland’s dedication to cooperative security does not end with the Alliance. From Africa to the South Caucasus, and from Asia to the Middle | Opinion |
Joint press point by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and the Prime Minister of Georgia, Bidzina Ivanishvili - Full transcript14 Nov. 2012 . The situation of General John Allen, whom we all know very well here in the U.S. Will the fact that he's currently under investigation affect operations in Afghanistan at all, with him continuing on as commander? And are you concerned that even the fact that he | Opinion |
Keynote speech by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Prague12 Nov. 2012 spending, defence is often the first area they mention. But as politicians, we all need to explain that there is also the security reality. Freedom does not come for free. And any decisions taken to improve our economy must not lead us into a different | Opinion |