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| NATO course in Bled, Slovenia |
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A civil emergency planning (CEP) and civil-military cooperation
(CIMIC) course is being held near Bled in Slovenia, 3-7 June. Conducted
at the Defence Training Centre Poljce, it aims to introduce participants
to organisational and functional aspects of CEP and CIMIC principles
and procedures.
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| Reinforcing cooperation
with Skopje |
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A team from NATO HQ travelled to the former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia (1) on 4-7 June to look
into ways of enhancing the country's cooperation with the Alliance
in the context of the Partnership for Peace. They met with representatives
of the Ministry of Defence and Ministry of Interior to examine a
series of problems, including unexploded conventional and potential
chemical munitions. In addition, ammunition management and the destruction
of anti-personnel mine stockpiles were also discussed.
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| NATO organises "Industry
Day" on transport issues |
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Transportation and, more specifically, information related to containers,
ports and railroad transport were at the heart of the first "Industry
Day" to be initiated by the NATO Planning Board for Inland
Surface Transport. On 5 June, 79 participants from NATO, Partner
and Mediterranean Dialogue countries gathered in York, United Kingdom,
to be briefed by industrialists on transport issues.
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| Meetings of NATO Defence
Ministers |
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Following the meetings of Foreign Ministers in Reykjavik, 14-15
May, and the Rome Summit, 28 May, Defence Ministers from NATO and
Partner countries are meeting at NATO HQ on 6-7 June. NATO Defence
Ministers will first meet on 6 June, within the Defence Planning
Group, the Nuclear Planning Group and the North Atlantic Council
(NAC-D). These meetings will be followed by a first meeting of the
NATO-Russia Council at the level of Defence Ministers and on 7 June,
by meetings of the NATO-Ukraine Commission and the Euro-Atlantic
Partnership Council.
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| Exercise Clean Hunter 2002
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An annual live air exercise, Clean Hunter 2002, started on 10 June
and is to finish on 21 June. It is being held in an area stretching
from Southern Germany to mid-Norway and from the United Kingdom
to mid-Poland. It also extends across Northern France and involves
participants from 12 NATO member countries.
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| Deepening relations with
Mediterranean Dialogue countries |
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The sixth annual round of political consultations with Mediterranean
Dialogue countries is taking place between 10 June and 18 July.
Each of the seven participating countries in NATO's Mediterranean
Dialogue (Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia)
is meeting with the Alliance's most important decision-making body
- the North Atlantic Council.
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| Visit of King Abdullah II
of Jordan |
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King Abdullah II of Jordan held bilateral meetings with Lord Robertson
on 11 June, during what was his second visit to NATO HQ in the past
three years. They exchanged views on NATO's current agenda and discussed
Jordan's participation in the Mediterranean Dialogue.
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| Conference on conflict prevention
and terrorism |
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Lord Robertson was invited to a conference on "Conflict
Prevention and Combating Terrorism" organised by the Organisation
for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), in Lisbon on 12 June.
The conference was divided into two main sessions: one focusing
on the role of international and regional organisations and the
other on combating terrorism.
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Statement
by the Secretary General of NATO on SFOR's Detention of Indicted
War Criminal Darko Mrda
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Today, 13 June 2002, SFOR detained Darko Mrda, who was under indictment
by the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia for war crimes.
Mr. Mrda was detained in Prijedor in northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina
and is being transferred to The Hague. There were no casualties
sustained in this operation by SFOR, Mr. Mrda or anyone in the surrounding
area.
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| International conference
on terrorism |
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Lord Robertson, went on a two-day visit to Vienna, Austria, 13-14
June to meet high-level government officials and participate in
a conference on "International security and the fight against
terrorism".
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| ATA mission to Ukraine
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Several representatives from the Atlantic Treaty Association (ATA)
travelled to Ukraine on 16-19 June following an invitation from
the Atlantic Council of Ukraine. The aim of the trip was to discuss
ways to enhance the activities of the Atlantic Council of Ukraine
and to assess Ukrainian public opinion towards NATO.
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| Lord Robertson and the NAC
visit the United States |
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From 17 to 21 June, NATO Secretary General, Lord Robertson and
members of the North Atlantic Council (NAC), were on an official
visit to the United States, where they first participated in the
annual seminar organised by the Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic
(SACLANT), before travelling to Washington D.C. In the capital,
the NAC met senior Administration officials and Congressional figures.
The Secretary General participated in a roundtable organised by
the New Atlantic Initiative that comes under the aegis of the American
Enterprise Institute (AEI), a Washington-based think-tank. He delivered
a speech on "Tackling Terror: NATO's New Mission"
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| Exercise Cooperative Best
Effort 2002 |
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A NATO peace support exercise is currently taking place in T'bilisi,
Georgia, 17- 28 June. Personnel from six NATO and ten Partner countries
are training to improve interoperability and effectiveness in the
field, while learning light infantry skills from each other and
exchanging basic knowledge on the conduct of such operations.
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| Exercise Cooperative Nugget
2002 |
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The second phase of a NATO Partnership for Peace exercise, Cooperative
Nugget 2002, is taking place at Fort Drum Army Base in Watertown,
New York, 19-27 June. This part of the exercise is a simulation
of a crisis response operation in which five NATO and thirteen Partner
countries are involved.
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| Science for Peace Projects
visited |
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Every year inspection visits are made by Science for Peace Steering
Group members to facilities in Partner countries which are being
funded by NATO through its Science for Peace (SfP) programme. This
year it was the turn of projects in Romania and Russia, as well
as Hungary and Poland - former Partner countries which became NATO
member countries in March 1999.
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| Computer networking panel
meeting in Kazakhstan |
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A meeting of the NATO Science Committee's Advisory Panel on Computer
Networking took place in Almaty, Kazakhstan from 20 to 22 June.
The Vice-Minister of Education and Science, Professor G. Mutanov,
welcomed participants to the Kazakh National Technical University
on behalf of the Kazakh government.
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| Meeting of disarmament experts
at NATO HQ |
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Disarmament experts from NATO and Partner countries held a meeting
on 21 June to review developments and discuss work underway in the
area of non-proliferation. The aim of the meeting was to give the
opportunity to national experts from NATO's Euro-Atlantic Partnership
Council (EAPC) member countries (the EAPC includes 19 NATO member
and 27 Partner countries) to exchange views and reach a better understanding
of national positions on disarmament.
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| Exercise Cooperative Partner
2002 |
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An annual maritime and amphibious exercise, Cooperative Partner
2002, is taking place near Constanta, Romania, and in the Black
Sea, from 21 June to 6 July 2002. It aims to train NATO member and
partner countries to work together in humanitarian and peace support
operations and to test progress made in interoperability.
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| Lord Robertson addresses
the issue of security in South-East Europe |
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During a one-day visit to Croatia, 24 June, NATO Secretary General,
Lord Robertson, met a number of high-level government officials
and was invited to give a speech at a conference on "Regional
stability and cooperation: NATO, Croatia and South Eastern Europe".
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| Exercise Cooperative Safeguard
2002 |
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Rescue specialists from five NATO and nine partner countries are
participating in a humanitarian exercise, Cooperative Safeguard
2002, from 24 June to 1 July 2002 in Iceland. The aim of this biennial
exercise is to foster greater interoperability between NATO member
and partner forces in responding to humanitarian disasters in the
North Atlantic.
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| NATO-EU meeting in Brussels
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As part of a series of regular meetings between the North Atlantic
Council (NAC) and the Political and Security Committee (PSC) of
the European Union, a session was convened at the European Union
Headquarters in Brussels on 25 June.
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| Flood prevention and response
in Ukraine |
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On 25 June, the results of the assessment phase of the Ukraine-NATO
Pilot Project on Flood Prevention and Response in the Trans-Carpathian
Region were presented to the Senior Civil Emergency Planning Committee.
This marked the completion of Phase One of this Joint Ukraine-NATO
project which was developed to improve the early flood warning systems
and flood mitigation measures in the areas of Ukraine which have
suffered from severe flooding in past years.
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| Troop reduction is a
testimony to progress in Kosovo says Secretary General
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During a one-day visit to the province on 27 June 2002, Lord Robertson
welcomed the progress made in Kosovo and said that the fact that
NATO can now reduce the number of troops in the area is a testimony
to that progress.
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| Full implementation of peace
accords key to future of former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (1)
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On 27 June, Lord Robertson also visited the former Yugoslav Republic
of Macedonia (1) where he met President
Trajkovski, Prime Minister Georgievski, other senior government
members and members of Parliament.
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| NATO Ambassadors tour AWACS
sites |
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On 27 June, the Deputy Secretary General, Ambassador Alessandro
Minuto Rizzo, and NATO Ambassadors visited the NATO Airborne Early
Warning and Control Programme Management Agency (NAPMA) in the Netherlands
and the main operating base in Geilenkirchen, Germany. Their visit
took place a day before the 20th anniversary of the base, which
was opened in 1982. The decision to activate the AWACS component
was taken by NATO in 1978.
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| Weaponry cache discovered
in Bosnia and Herzegovina |
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During operation "Bear" lead by SFOR troops in Republika
Srpska, a weapon cache was discovered comprising an anti-aircraft
gun, rocket launchers, hand grenades, an antipersonnel mine and
other weaponry and ammunition.
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