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Exercise
Phoenix 2001 |
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13 NATO countries: Canada, Denmark,
France, Germany, Greece, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway,
Poland, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the
United States |
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Training of NATO specialists on escape
and rescue procedures for submarines in distress |
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NATO Northwood Headquarters, UK |
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13-15 March 2001 |
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Yugoslav
troops enter Ground Safety Zone
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Yugoslav troops entered the Ground Safety Zone
(GSZ), the five-kilometre strip of southern Serbia
bordering Kosovo, for the first time since their
withdrawal from Kosovo in June 1999, on 14 March.
This move, which illustrates the improvement in
relations between NATO and Belgrade, came in the
wake of an 12 March agreement between NATO and the
Yugoslav government allowing the Yugoslav Army to
return to part of the GSZ. This agreement was made
possible by the 8th
March decision by the NAC to proceed with the
phased and conditioned reduction of the GSZ.
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NATO
brokers southern Serbian cease-fire
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NATO mediators brokered a cease-fire between the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and representatives
of ethnic Albanians from southern Serbia on 12 March.
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Information
Workshop for Latvia and Slovenia Held in Brussels
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On 12-14 March 2001, in the framework of the Membership
Action Plan, NATO's Information and Press hosted
an information workshop for Slovene and Latvian
government information specialists. The aim of the
workshop was to help the two aspirant countries
fine tune their NATO information strategies, as
well as explore aspects of information policy that
they wished to concentrate on in more detail.
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NATO-Ukraine:
Strategic Partnership seminar
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The NATO Information and Documentation Center in
Kyiv and the Lutsk Bio-Technical Institute organised
a seminar, entitled Ukraine-NATO: Strategic Partnership,
in Lutsk on 14 March. Participants, including local
and national officials, academics and journalists,
as well as representatives from NATO HQ and NATO
Ambassadors in Ukraine, discussed NATO-Ukraine cooperation
in military reform, economic security and non-military
cooperation.
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NATO-EU
discussions on Kosovo
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The situation in and around Kosovo and practical
cooperation between the European Union (EU) and
NATO in the region dominated talks between the Political
and Security Committee of the EU and the North Atlantic
Council on 14 March.
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Defence
reform in Denmark
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Left to right: NATO Secretary General shaking
hands with Mr. J. Trøborg. |
The Defence Minister of Denmark, Mr Jan Trøborg,
came to NATO HQ on 14 March to discuss Denmark's
"Defence Agreement" with Lord Robertson.
This agreement, which covers Denmark's defence reform
process until 2004, aims to introduce a larger degree
of mobility and deployability into the country's
armed forces.
Lord Robertson and Mr Jan Trøborg also raised
the question of NATO enlargement and assessed the
general situation in the Balkans.
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Lord
Robertson in Greece
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During a trip to Athens on 16 March, Lord Robertson
met with President Constantinos Stephanopoulos,
Prime Minister Costas Simitis, Minister of Foreign
Affairs George Papandreou, Defence Minister Akis
Tsohatzopoulos and the leader of the Opposition
Kostas Karamanlis to discuss a number of key issues.
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