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• Foreign Ministers praise Georgia’s reform efforts

  

  04 Dec. 2013

  NATO Foreign Ministers met with their Georgian counterpart for the first time since the inauguration of Georgia’s new president. They agreed that much has been achieved since the NATO-Georgia Commission was created five years ago.

• ISAF Ministers encouraged by preparations for 2014 Afghan elections

  

  04 Dec. 2013

  NATO Foreign Ministers and their counterparts from ISAF partner nations on Wednesday (4 December 2013) welcomed the encouraging briefings from acting Afghan Foreign Minister Zarar Ahmad Osmani and Interior Minister Omar Daudzai on ongoing preparations for next year’s presidential and provincial council elections. “We are confident that the Afghan forces will be capable of securing them,” NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said. “Those elections are key for Afghanistan’s future and we were encouraged to hear the Afghan government’s determination that they should be timely, transparent and inclusive.”

• NATO-Russia Council approves ambitious cooperation plan for 2014

  

  04 Dec. 2013

  NATO Foreign Ministers together with their Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, on Wednesday (4 December 2013) agreed to launch a joint trust fund project to dispose of obsolete and dangerous ammunition in the Kaliningrad region and discussed pressing international security issues, with a focus on Afghanistan, Iran and Syria. “Today, we agreed to launch a project for the disposal of obsolete and dangerous ammunition in a safe, efficient and environmentally friendly way”, the Secretary General said. “By doing so, we will make the environment safer for all those who live near these stocks of dangerous ammunition. And we will create the conditions for former military sites to be converted to civilian use.”

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