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Exercise
Allied Effort 2001
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Poland will host a NATO exercise, Allied Effort 2001,
from 5 to 20 November. Organised by Allied Forces North,
the exercise will involve approximately 2,500 personnel
from 14 NATO countries and 13 Partner countries and is
aimed at training the headquarters and component commands
of a Combined Joint Task Force (CJTF) in the planning
and conduct of a peace-support operation.
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Lord
Robertson starts tour of countries aspiring to NATO membership
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NATO Secretary General, Lord Robertson, started his tour
of the nine partner countries aspiring for NATO membership
with a visit to Slovakia on 5 November. He met with President
Rudolf Schuster, Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda, the
Minister of Foreign Affairs Eduard Kukan, the Minister
of Defence Jozef Stank and members of the Slovak Parliament.
They discussed the progress made by Slovakia in meeting
the membership criteria set out by the Alliance. Lord
Robertson reiterated that no decisions would be taken
before next year when NATO will be officially inviting
countries to join the Alliance at its Summit in November
2002.
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NATO
armaments representatives hold biannual meeting
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At its Autumn meeting this year, 5-6 November, the Conference
of National Armaments Directors (CNAD) discussed a number
of fundamental issues, including the reinforcement of NATO's
defence capabilities, further opportunities for defence
cooperation with Partner countries, the development of NATO's
Theatre Missile Defence programme as part of its extended
air defence concept and Alliance Ground Surveillance.
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Cooperative
Determination 2001
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Personnel from nine NATO and eleven Partner countries
are training in a crisis response operation exercise called
Cooperative Determination 2001, from 5-16 November. This
exercise, which is part of a long-standing programme of
exercises, is taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan.
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Lord
Robertson in Skopje and Pristina
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With the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (1)
yet to implement constitutional reform and Kosovo preparing
for elections on 17 November, NATO Secretary General, Lord
Robertson, travelled respectively to Skopje and Pristina
to meet with government officials.
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"Europe,
the United States and the Mediterranean after 11 September"
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In a conference organised by the Instituto de Estudos
Estrategicos e Internacionais, Portugal, high-level speakers
participated in discussions on the impact of the 11 September
attacks on the identity, values and security of Europe,
the United States and the Mediterranean.
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Conference
on "Ukraine's European choice"
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Ukrainian officials, representatives from international
organisations and research institutes and former government
officials from Italy and Poland gathered in Kyiv, 9-10
November for a conference on "Ukraine's European choice:
internal transformations and search for a new foreign
policy role."
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- Turkey
recognises the Republic of Macedonia with its constitutional
name.
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