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| NATO
assumes control of Kabul International Airport |
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A ceremony held at Kabul International
Airport on 1 June marked the formal transfer of authority
over the airport to the NATO-led International Security
Assistance Force (ISAF).
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| Jaap
de Hoop Scheffer in Spain |
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NATO Secretary General, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
travelled to Spain on 4 June to meet Prime Minister Zapatero,
Minister of Foreign Affairs Moratinos and Defence Minister
Bono.
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| High-level
informal talks with Ukraine in Warsaw |
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The royal castle in Warsaw, Poland, provided
the venue for informal NATO-Ukraine high-level consultations
on 6 and 7 June.
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| Exercise
Ample Train |
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A live logistics exercise is taking place,
6-11 June, in Oerland, Norway, involving approximately
300 personnel from ten different NATO member countries.
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| NATO
and Ukraine sign agreement on strategic airlift |
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On the margins of the informal NATO-Ukraine
high-level consultations in Warsaw, a NATO-Ukraine Memorandum
of Understanding on Strategic Airlift was signed on 7 June
by Ukrainian Defence Minister Yevhen Marchuk and Admiral
Miguel Fernandez, who is the representative in Europe of
the Supreme Allied Commander for Transformation.
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| Secretary
General visits Greece |
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On 10 June, the NATO Secretary General Jaap de
Hoop Scheffer paid a one-day visit to Athens for talks on key issues
on the Alliance’s agenda ahead of NATO’s Istanbul Summit.
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| Exercise
Collective Effort |
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An exercise focusing on ways of improving the
interoperability of NATO logistics systems and the standardisation
of procedures to support NATO operations is taking place in the Czech
Republic, 11-18 June.
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| Annual live-flying
exercise |
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Exercise Clean Hunter, NATO’s major annual live-flying
exercise, is taking place in Northern Europe, 14-25 June.
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| Kaliningrad
exercise to test disaster responses |
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NATO, Russia and partner countries will test their capability to jointly respond
to a mock disaster situation following a terrorist attack on an oil
platform in an exercise to be held in Kaliningrad, 22 to 25 June
2004.
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| NATO guards
skies over Euro 2004 |
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As the European 2004 football championship kicked-off
this past weekend, NATO’s AWACS radar aircraft took to the skies
over Portugal to patrol against possible terrorist threats.
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| « e-generation
» module for schools |
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If you are interested in discovering the new NATO
interface created especially for teenagers and secondary school teachers,
visit our new education web module – e-generation – launched this
week.
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| Aspirant
countries present joint strategy
for NATO membership |
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The Foreign Ministers of Albania, Croatia
and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (1) came to NATO Headquarters on 17 June to present a joint strategy
for NATO membership.
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| New
missions require new means,
says NATO Secretary General |
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Speaking in London on 18 June, NATO
Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said that if NATO
is to continue to take on new operations, it has to improve
the way it decides on and plans for missions.
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| De
Hoop Scheffer praises Iceland
for Afghanistan contribution |
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Iceland taking the lead in running
the Kabul airport shows that small nations can make big
contributions to NATO’s operations, the NATO Secretary
General said on a visit to Reykjavik, 18 June.
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| NATO
exercise in the Black Sea |
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A maritime exercise called Exercise Cooperative
Partner 2004 is taking place in Varna, Bulgaria, and the
Black Sea, 18 June to 2 July.
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| Iraqi
government requests assistance from NATO |
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In a letter sent to the NATO Secretary General
on 22 June, the interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ilyad Allawi
requested NATO support through training and other forms
of technical assistance.
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| NATO-Russia
disaster response exercise
and seminar held in Kaliningrad |
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From 22 to 25 June 2004 NATO, Russia and partner countries
tested their capabilities to jointly respond to a disaster situation
in a field and strategic-level exercise and seminar held in the Kaliningrad
region of the Russian Federation.
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| NATO
to assist with security for Olympics |
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On 23 June, the North Atlantic Council,
NATO’s principal decision-making body, agreed to the request
from the Greek government for assisting in providing security
for the 2004 Athens Olympics.
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| Istanbul
Summit: A New Atlanticism for the 21st Century |
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Speaking at a high-level conference on the eve of NATO’s
Istanbul Summit, NATO Secretary General De Hoop Scheffer
said it will
demonstrate that a new transatlantic security consensus
is taking shape.
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| Joint Force
Command Naples assumes responsibility for NATO Response Force |
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In a change of command ceremony held in Istanbul on 27 June 2004, prior to the
Alliance Summit, NATO’s Joint Force Command (JFC) Naples assumed responsibilities
for the NATO
Response Force (NRF), a force of up to 20,000 troops – comprising land,
maritime and air forces – that will be available for deployment at
very short notice wherever decided by the North Atlantic Council.
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| Istanbul:
Missions, partnerships, capabilities |
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On 28 and 29 June, leaders of the now 26 NATO countries met in Istanbul
to enhance NATO’s missions, deepen the Alliance’s partnerships
and discuss assistance to Iraq.
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| NATO
expands presence in Afghanistan |
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NATO will take on command of four new provincial
reconstruction teams and deploy extra troops to support
the upcoming elections, the Alliance announced at the Istanbul
Summit.
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| Alliance
to support Iraq with troop training |
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In a statement released on the first day
of Summit meetings in Istanbul, NATO Heads of State of
Government agreed to assist Iraq with the training of its
security forces.
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| NATO
enhances operational capabilities |
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Meeting in Istanbul on 28 June, NATO leaders
endorsed measures to further improve the Alliance’s ability
to take on operations when and where necessary.
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| NATO
elevates Mediterranean Dialogue to a genuine partnership,
launches Istanbul Cooperation Initiative |
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Meeting in Istanbul, NATO leaders decided
to elevate the Alliance’s Mediterranean Dialogue to a genuine
partnership and to launch the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative
with selected countries in the broader region of the Middle
East.
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| Heads
of State and Government strengthen NATO’s anti-terrorism
efforts |
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NATO leaders boosted the Alliance’s anti-terrorism
efforts with an agreement in Istanbul to improve intelligence
sharing and to develop new, high-tech defences against
terrorist attacks.
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| SFOR
to be terminated at the end of the year |
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The NATO-led Stabilization Force (SFOR)
in Bosnia and Herzegovina will be brought to a successful
end at the end of this year, Heads of State and Government
announced at the Istanbul Summit.
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| Special
2004 NATO Summit Science Prize awarded to Turkish Institutes |
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A special Summit Science Prize was presented to three Turkish universities
on the occasion of the NATO Summit in Istanbul, 28-29 June.
The three institutes are - Bosphorus University, Istanbul
Technical University, and the Middle East Technical University.
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| Forum on
Business and Security |
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The
most pressing issues confronting governments and business in the new
international security landscape were addressed at the NATO Forum on
Business and Security, 30 June to 2 July, in Istanbul, Turkey.
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| Summer Academy
in Ukraine |
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The first ever NATO Summer Academy “The
NATO Istanbul Summit: understanding international security and
Euro-Atlantic integration in Ukraine” took place in Simferopol on 30 June - 3 July, 2004.
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