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| President of Croatia visits NATO |
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Stjepan Mesic, the President of Croatia, visited NATO
HQ on 1 March to discuss with NATO Secretary General Jaap
de Hoop Scheffer Croatia's progress in the Membership
Action Plan.
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| NATO and Georgia sign transit agreement |
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On Wednesday 2 March, Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia Salome Zourabichvili
signed an agreement at NATO HQ regarding the provision
of host nation support to and transit of NATO forces and
NATO personnel.
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| Avoiding military involvement in
human trafficking |
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A seminar in Helsinki, Finland, on 3 and 4 March has
allowed NATO and partner countries to examine the best
practices for avoiding military involvement in human
trafficking.
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| World’s largest anti-submarine
exercise to be held in Mediterranean |
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Ten NATO countries will provide six submarines, ten
maritime patrol aircraft and 16 surface ships to take part
in NOBLE MARLIN 05, the world's largest anti-submarine
Warfare exercise from 03 to 16 March 2005.
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| NATO reserve forces rehearse
in Kosovo |
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NATO forces will deploy to Kosovo on 6 March, to take
part in an operational rehearsal designed to ensure NATO
troops and reserve forces headquarters are prepared to respond
to any crisis in the Balkans.
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| Discussing defence reform at NATO |
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Defence Ministers from NATO member Slovenia and partner countries
Albania and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (1)
visited NATO on 7 and 9 March for talks with NATO Secretary
General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer.
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| Statement by Secretary General on
Haradinaj indictment |
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In a statement on 8 March, NATO Secretary General Jaap de
Hoop Scheffer said he was confident that former Kosovo Prime
Minister Ramush Haradinaj will, as he has announced, cooperate
fully with the International Tribunal.
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| AWACS help guard skies
over Madrid anti-terror conference |
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NATO radar aircraft will monitor the skies over Madrid
during the International Summit on Democracy, Terrorism
and Security, 8-11 March.
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| NATO and Russia conduct joint theatre
missile defence exercise |
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NATO and Russia are holding a computer-assisted exercise
in the Netherlands, 14-23 March, to test joint concepts for
protecting troops deployed on operations against missile
attacks.
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| Special Representative for Caucasus
and Central Asia
visits Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan |
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Robert Simmons, NATO Secretary General's Special Representative
for the Caucasus and Central Asia visited Kazakhstan and
Uzbekistan from 9 to 15 March.
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| Democracy best answer to terror, says NATO
Secretary General |
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Speaking at an anti-terror Summit in Madrid on
10 March, NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said that protecting
and promoting democracy remains the best answer to terror.
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| Remembering Brosio: NATO Secretary General and Cold War consensus-builder |
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On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of his death on 14 March 1980, a special NATO Review article looks back on the life of Manlio Brosio of Italy, NATO’s fourth Secretary General.
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| Launch of NATO’s Active Layered
Theatre Ballistic Missile Defence (ALTBMD) Programme |
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NATO’s Theatre Missile Defence (TMD) Programme has
reached a key milestone in Alliance efforts to field an Active
Layered Theatre Ballistic Missile Defence (ALTBMD) capability
by 2010.
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| Heading off nuclear proliferation and protecting the environment: Dismantling Russian nuclear submarines |
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Developing a road map for dismantling old nuclear attack and cruise missile submarines belonging to Russia’s Pacific fleet was the aim of a NATO-sponsored Advanced Research Workshop held in Vladivostok, from 17 to 18 March.
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| Alliance ships visit Red Sea |
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From mid-March, ships belonging to the NATO Response Force are visiting the Red Sea ports of NATO’s Mediterranean partner countries, as part of the Alliance’s Mediterranean Dialogue.
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| NATO and the broader Middle East region |
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The way ahead for NATO’s programme of cooperation with countries of the broader Middle East, the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative, was the focus of a high-level conference in Rome on 18 March.
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| NATO Parliamentarians visit Afghanistan |
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From 20-22 March, a delegation from the NATO Parliamentary Assembly visited Afghanistan to get a first hand look at the assistance NATO is providing to the country.
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| UN envoy briefs NATO Council on Kosovo |
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Soren Jessen-Petersen, the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative in Kosovo, visited NATO HQ on 23 March to brief the Alliance on the political situation in the province.
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| Albanian Prime Minister visits NATO |
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The Prime Minister of Albania, Fatos Nano, visited NATO on 24 March to address the North Atlantic Council and meet with the Secretary General of NATO, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer.
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| NATO donates bridges to Indonesia |
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On 25 March, NATO handed over more than 565 metres of bridge equipment to assist Indonesia in dealing with the consequences of the December tsunami disaster.
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| Exercise Noble Javelin
takes Response Force far from home |
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3,000 troops from the elite NATO Response Force deployed
to the Canary Islands from 28 March to 14 April 2005 to
respond to a mock crisis situation as part of exercise
Noble Javelin 05.
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| Secretary General discusses security cooperation in New Zealand |
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NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer travelled to New Zealand from 29 to 31 March, to discuss areas in which the country is working with NATO to enhance international security.
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| NATO and Australia enhance cooperation |
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During a visit to Australia from 31 March to 2 April, NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer signed an agreement on the exchange of classified information, paving the way for greater cooperation.
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