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Qatar
conference discusses NATO cooperation with Broader Middle East |
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A high-level conference in Doha on 1 December brought together top NATO officials, civil society representatives and officials from the six Gulf States party to the Alliance’s Istanbul Cooperation Initiative.
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Helping
Ukrainian ex-military return to civilian life |
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NATO is preparing to step assistance aimed at retraining and resettling military personnel made redundant by the restructuing of Ukraine’s armed forces.
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| Viking exercise tests civil-military cooperation |
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From 5 to 16 December, some 2000 civilian and military personnel are looking at ways of improving civil-military responses to crises in exercise Viking 05, led by NATO partner country Sweden.
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Foreign
Ministers discuss key transatlantic issues |
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A meeting at NATO Headquarters on 8 December allowed NATO Foreign Ministers to discuss a broad range of strategic political issues in the transatlantic dialogue.
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NATO
to go South in Afghanistan |
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Meeting at NATO HQ on 8 December, NATO Foreign Ministers endorsed a plan that paves the way for an expanded NATO role in Afghanistan.
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NATO
and Russia launch Afghanistan counter-narcotics training |
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At their meeting on 8 December, Foreign Ministers from the NATO-Russia Council agreed to launch a pilot project on counter-narcotics training of Afghan and Central Asian personnel.
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Next
NATO Summit in 2006 |
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NATO Foreign Ministers agreed on 8 December that next Summit meeting of NATO Heads of State and Government will be held in Latvia at the end of 2006.
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| Alliance continues Pakistan relief |
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NATO’s short-term relief mission is focused on delivering assistance to as many survivors of the 8 October earthquake as possible, helping to pave the way for other agencies to begin longer-term assistance and reconstruction.
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| 20 years of defence expenditures now online |
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Figures on the defence expenditures of NATO countries and Russia from 1985 to 2005 are now available on the NATO Web site.
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Youth conference to discuss terrorism
with Secretary General |
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On 12 December, NATO's Public Diplomacy Division, in cooperation
with the Youth Atlantic Treaty Association (YATA) Executive Board,
organised for the second time an international conference,
bringing together 44 representatives of national YATA chapters
from over 30 NATO, Partnership for Peace and observer countries.
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Statement on death of Swedish soldier in Afghanistan |
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In a statement issued on 9 December, the NATO Secretary General, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, said he was “deeply saddened by the death of Tomas Bergqvist” from injuries he sustained in the attack on his convoy more than two weeks ago in Afghanistan.
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NATO and South Caucasus partners intensify cooperation |
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On 16 December 2005, Armenia became the third partner country to agree an Individual Partnership Action Plan (IPAP) with NATO, following Georgia and Azerbaijan.
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Hungary joins AWACS programme |
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On 22 December 2005, Hungary formally joined 14 other NATO countries that contribute to and manage NATO’s fleet of NATO Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) radar aircraft, also known as AWACS.
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