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| Meetings
at Chiefs of Staff level
at NATO Headquarters |
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NATO’s
Chiefs of Defence met on 5 and 6 May 2004 at NATO HQ for
high-level military discussions on aspects of NATO’s military
policy, doctrine and operations.
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| Improved
satellite communications for NATO |
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On 5 May NATO announced the results of SATCOM
POST 2000, a project to give NATO significantly improved
satellite communication capabilities.
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| NATO
to enhance defense against terrorism |
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At a meeting at NATO on 6 and 7 May,
Armaments Directors from the 26 NATO countries launched
a package of projects to enhance the Alliance’s capability to protect populations and troops from terrorist attacks.
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| NATO
Secretary General visits Romania and Bulgaria |
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NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
congratulated the two new Allies on their membership in
NATO during a visit to their capitals, 13-14 May, for talks
that focused on the Istanbul Summit agenda.
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| AWACS
support in Portugal and Spain |
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NATO Airborne Early Warning
Aircraft (AWACS) will provide support for two major
public events: the Royal Wedding in Spain and the Euro
2004 Portuguese Championship.
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| Projecting
stability – the agenda for NATO’s Istanbul Summit |
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Speaking in Brussels on 17 May, NATO Secretary
General de Hoop Scheffer outlined the agenda of the Istanbul Summit,
28-29 June, saying it will showcase a NATO that is defending security
in a new way – by projecting stability.
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| Ukraine’s
Prime Minister meets
with NATO Secretary General |
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Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych
met NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer at NATO
on 18 May for talks on key aspects of cooperation and on
Ukraine’s progress in implementing its reform agenda.
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| First
visit of senior Australian official to NATO HQ |
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"I think we had a historic
first which is the address by the Honourable Alexander
Downer, the Australian Foreign Minister, to the Council…" stated NATO Secretary General, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, at a joint press
conference with the minister.
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| Azerbaijan
and NATO enhance cooperation |
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Azeri President Ilham Aliyev presented a plan for closer
bilateral cooperation between NATO and Azerbaijan during
a visit to NATO Headquarters on 19 May.
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| Mine countermeasures
exercise |
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Exercise Damsel Fair, an exercise addressing all
aspects of mine warfare planning, execution and analysis, started
off the coast of Turkey on 20 May.
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| Women
- ‘a force multiplier’ for NATO’s operations |
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This year’s Conference
on Women in the NATO Forces was held at the NATO HQ from
23 to 28 May and called for a greater involvement of female
soldiers in Alliance operations.
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| Norwegian
ISAF soldier killed in rocket attack |
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| Photo
ISAF |
KABUL, Afghanistan -- At approximately 8:35 p.m. May 23, three rockets,
believed to be rocket-propelled grenades were fired at a Norwegian
patrol of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan.
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| Improving
responses to disasters |
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Over 100 civil emergency experts from 34 NATO and partner countries
met in Dubrovnik, Croatia, 24 to 26 May, to discuss lessons
learned from NATO-coordinated disaster response operations
and exercises. |
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| Allied Action
04 |
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For the first time, NATO is testing the activation
of a deployed joint task force (DJTF) headquarters to train for NATO
Response Force operations during an exercise that started on 25 May
and will end on 8 June.
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| NATO Secretary
General visits aspirant countries |
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During a visit to Croatia, Albania and
the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 1, 26-28 May, NATO Secretary General De Hoop Scheffer, said the door to NATO remained
opened but that membership depended on reforms.
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| President
of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly
visits Ukraine |
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On 26-27 May, Doug Bereuter paid an official
visit to Ukraine as President of the NATO Parliamentary
Assembly. During the visit he met with President Leonid
Kuchma, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, MFA Konstantyn
Hryschenko and with Senior Officials at the Verkhovna Rada
including its Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn.
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| NATO decision-makers
visit Bosnia and Herzegovina |
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The North Atlantic Council, the Alliance’s
top decision-making body, reiterated NATO’s commitment to Bosnia and Herzegovina during a visit to Sarajevo on 28 May.
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| Meeting
of NATO-Ukraine Working Group
on Science and Environment |
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A meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Joint Working
Group on Scientific and Environmental Cooperation took
place at NATO HQ on 28 May.
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