Speeches & press conferences 2008

• New Year's Message by NATO Secretary General, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
• Message de nouvel an du secrétaire général de l'OTAN, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer

Joint press point with NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and the President of Latvia, Mr. Valdis Zatlers

Press briefing by NATO Spokesman, James Appathurai

Speech by NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Center, Ghana

Press briefing by NATO Spokesman, James Appathurai

Keynote address by NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer at the 54th Annual Session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Valencia, Spain

Opening remarks by NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer at the High-Level NATO-Ukraine Consultations, Tallinn, Estonia

Speech by NATO Secretary General, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, at the Annual Meeting of the Atlantic Treaty Association (ATA) in Berlin, Germany

Speech by NATO Secretary General, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, at the University of Chisinau, Chisinau, Moldova

Joint press conference by NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and the EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Javier Solana

Keynote speech by NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, at the Economist Energy Security dinner “Energy security in the 21st century”, Lloyd's, London

Keynote address by NATO Deputy Secretary General Claudio Bisogniero at the “Forum on Euro-Atlantic Security", Krakow, Poland

Press briefing by NATO Spokesman, James Appathurai

Keynote speech by Ambassador Martin Erdmann, NATO Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy at the ICI Workshop on "Exchange of Experience on Security Aspects of Energy Infrastructure"

Press briefing by NATO Spokesman, James Appathurai

Press briefing by NATO Spokesman, James Appathurai

Joint press point with NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and the President of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia¹ Mr. Branko Crvenkovski

Press briefing by NATO Spokesman, James Appathurai

Press briefing by NATO Spokesman, James Appathurai

Press briefing by Antonio Maria Costa, Executive Director of the UN Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

Press briefing by NATO Spokesman James Appathurai and video teleconference by General Robert W. Cone, Commander of the Combined Security Transition Command - Afghanistan.

Video interview with Lieutenant General Xavier Bout de Marnhac, outgoing Commander of KFOR

Press point by NATO Secretary General, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer following the meeting of the North Atlantic Council on the situation in Georgia

Press briefing by NATO Spokesman, James Appathurai

Speech by NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer at the High-level seminar on relations between the European Union and NATO

Discours prononcé par le Secrétaire général de l'OTAN, M. Jaap de Hoop Scheffer au Séminaire de haut niveau sur les relations entre l'Union européenne et l'OTAN

Joint press point with NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and the President of Romania Traian Basescu

Speech by Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy, Mr. Jean-Francois Bureau, at the closure ceremony for the melange project in Baku, Azerbaijan

Press briefing by NATO Spokesman, James Appathurai

Press briefing by NATO Spokesman, James Appathurai and Assistant Secretary General for Defence Policy and Planning Jiřί Šedivý

"NATO: The Next Decade" - Speech by NATO Secretary General, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, at the Security and Defence Agenda, Brussels

Opening remarks by NATO Secretary General, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, at the Annual Conference on Women in NATO, Brussels

Weekly press briefing by NATO Spokesman, James Appathurai

Opening remarks by NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Regional, Economic and Security Affairs, Aurelia Bouchez at the International Conference on Small Arms and Light Weapons

Speech by NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly’s 2008 Spring Session, Berlin, Germany

Keynote speech by NATO Deputy Secretary General Ambassador Claudio Bisogniero, at the Second NATO-Egypt Dialogue in Cairo, Egypt

Acceptance speech by NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer at Burgas Free University

Weekly press briefing by NATO Spokesman, James Appathurai with Colonel Brett Boudreau, Public Information Advisor for the International Military Staff

Speech by NATO Secretary General at the Conference “After the Bucharest NATO Summit: European and American Missile Defense Perspectives”, Prague, 5 May 2008

Weekly press briefing by NATO Spokesman James Appathurai

First panel session: “NATO-Gulf relations in the framework of the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative”
Remarks by Ambassador Claudio Bisogniero NATO Deputy Secretary General

A New Era of Security Cooperation - Secretary General’s Speech at the ICI Ambassadorial Conference

Joint press point with NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and the Prime Minister of the Republic of Iraq, Mr. Nouri Al-Maliki

Joint press point with NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Afghanistan, Ambassador Kai Eide

Weekly press briefing by NATO Spokesman James Appathurai

Interview with NATO Assistant Secretary General for Operations Martin Howard on NATO's operations

Interview with Jean-François Bureau, NATO Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy on the preparations for the Bucharest Summit

Interview with Assistant Secretary General for Defence Investment Peter Flory on NATO's work on missile defence, defence against terrorism and cyber defence.

Pre-summit press briefing by NATO Spokesman, James Appathurai

Remarks by Jean-François Bureau, NATO Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy, at the occasion of the visit of the ITS EURO to the port of Constanta

Interview with General Ray Henault, Chairman of the Military Committee on the preparations for the Bucharest Summit

Speech by NATO Deputy Secretary General, Ambassador Claudio Bisogniero, at the opening of the NATO multimedia exhibition, National History Museum, Bucharest

“Beyond the Bucharest Summit” - Speech by NATO Secretary General, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, GMF Brussels Forum, Brussels – 15 March 2008

Video interview with Mr. Alvaro Pino Salas, Chairman of the NATO Senior Resource Board

Keynote speech by NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer at the conference on “NATO’s Bucharest Summit – transformation of the Alliance and Polish and regional perspectives”, Warsaw, Poland

Weekly press briefing by NATO Spokesman, James Appathurai and technical briefing on defence against terrrorism and missile defence by NATO Assistant Secretary General for Defence Investment, Peter Flory

Sicherheit im Zeitalter der Globalisierung - Rede des NATO Generalsekretärs, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer bei der 41. Kommandeurtagung, Berlin, 10. März 2008

Weekly press briefing by NATO Spokesman, James Appathurai

"Afghanistan and NATO: Forging the 21st Century Alliance" - Speech by NATO Secretary General, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer at Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.

Weekly press briefing by NATO Spokesman, James Appathurai

Joint press point with NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and the Prime Minister of Iceland Geir H. Haarde

Press conference by NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and EU High Representative Javier Solana

Speech by NATO Senior Coordinator on Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Ambassador Jiri Sedivy, at the Vienna Forum to Fight Human Trafficking

Speech by NATO Secretary General, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, at the 44th Munich Security Conference

Joint press point with NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves

« Pour en finir avec quelques idées reçues sur l’OTAN » - Discours du Secrétaire général de l’OTAN à l’institut d’études politiques, Paris

Video interview with Romanian President Traian Basescu

Weekly press briefing by NATO Spokesman, James Appathurai

Joint press point with NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and the Prime Minister of Albania, Sali Berisha

Speech by NATO Deputy Secretary General, Ambassador Claudio Bisogniero at the conference on “NATO’s role for stability and peace”

Speech by NATO Secretary General, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer at the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Weekly press briefing by NATO Spokesman, James Appathurai

Joint press point with NATO Secretary General, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and the Prime Minister of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia¹, Nikola Gruevski

NATO Partnership Symposium - Video interview with Ambassador Martin Erdmann, Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy

“Assisting Afghanistan: The importance of a comprehensive approach” - Speech by NATO Deputy Secretary General Ambassador Claudio Bisogniero, at the GLOBSEC Conference, Bratislava, Slovakia

Energy Security, a new NATO issue? - Video interview with Thierry Legendre, Policy Advisor in the office of the NATO Secretary General

Joint press conference by NATO Secretary General, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and the Prime Minister of Croatia, Ivo Sanader, 16 Jan. 2008

"Looking ahead to NATO’s Bucharest Summit" - Speech by NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer at Bucharest University, Romania

Speech by NATO Secretary General, Jaap De Hoop Scheffer at the annual press reception on the occasion of the New Year