1 July 2004	NATO flag raised in Mazar-e-Sharif and Maimana On 1 July NATO took a first step to further expanding its presence in northern Afghanistan by taking command of provincial reconstruction teams in Mazar-e-Sharif and Maimana. More...
5 July 2004	De Hoop Scheffer invites Switzerland to expand ISAF role During a visit to Bern on 5 July, NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer invited NATO partner country Switzerland to contribute to the expansion of the Alliance’s presence in Afghanistan. More...
5 July 2004	NATO after Istanbul Istanbul Summit, 28 and 29 June During a visit to the Netherlands on 5 July, NATO Secretary Jaap De Hoop Scheffer said NATO’s Istanbul Summit demonstrated a “new transatlantic unity”. More...
10 July 2004	NATO fact-finding team visits Baghdad A team of NATO military experts visited Baghdad from 5 to 10 July to gather information to develop options for the modalities of NATO’s assistance to Iraq. More...
12 July 2004	NATO and EU should expand cooperation, says De Hoop Scheffer In a speech in Brussels NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said that NATO and the EU should broaden their strategic partnership beyond the Balkans and exploit its full potential. More...
13 July 2004	First visit to NATO by Iraqi Foreign Minister On a historic first visit to NATO on 13 July, the Foreign Minister of Iraq, Hoshyar Zebari, appealed to the Alliance to provide Iraqi forces with training and equipment as soon as possible. More...
15 July 2004	Discussing mission handover in Bosnia and Herzegovina NATO Secretary General, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and the EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy and Secretary General of the Council of the EU, Javier Solana, were both in Sarajevo on 15 July to discuss the handover of the NATO mission to the European Union by the end of this year. More...
19 July 2004	Jaap de Hoop Scheffer in Serbia and Montenegro The NATO Secretary General travelled to Belgrade on 19 July to meet high-level government officials and discuss relations between Serbia and Montenegro and the Alliance. More...
20 July 2004	New forms of cooperation NATO has sent a whole collection of scientific books – some five thousand of them - to the library of the Ecole Polytechnique in Palaiseau near Paris. More...
23 July 2004	NATO to provide support for the presidential elections in Afghanistan NATO Secretary General, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, is pleased to announce the decision by the North Atlantic Council to approve detailed military advice on ISAF support for the presidential elections, scheduled for 9 October 2004. More...
30 July 2004	Statement by the Secretary General of NATO on NATO assistance to Iraq Today, the North Atlantic Council reached agreement on the establishment of a NATO Training Implementation Mission in Iraq. More...