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NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, October 23, 2013

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Oct 29, 2013

NATO Congratulates Georgian People for Transparent Elections

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

I congratulate the Georgian people on holding transparent and peaceful presidential elections in which fundamental freedoms of expression, movement, and assembly were respected.

Elections
NATO
Ballistic missile defense groundbreaking ceremony in Romania

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Oct 28, 2013

Romania Breaks Ground for NATO Missile Defense Facility

By NATO

NATO Deputy Secretary General Ambassador Alexander Vershbow on Monday (28 October 2013) participated in a groundbreaking ceremony of the missile defence facility at the Deveselu airbase in southern Romania.

Missile Defense
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Security force with Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Farah, February 6, 2013

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Oct 28, 2013

NATO Reduces Scope of Its Afghanistan Plans

By Thom Shanker, New York Times

After months of tense negotiations over the size and role of a postwar presence in Afghanistan, senior North Atlantic Treaty Organization officials say they are planning a more minimalist mission

Afghanistan
International Security Assistance Force
MEADS is a short-range missile defense system

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Oct 25, 2013

US, Germany, Italy Sign Agreement on MEADS Development

By Global Security Newswire

The United States, Germany and Italy this week agreed to maintain trilateral collaboration on a developmental battlefield short-range missile defense system

Germany
Italy
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying

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Oct 25, 2013

China: Don’t Politicize Turkey Missile Deal

By Christopher Bodeen, AP

China said Friday that a controversial proposal to sell a Chinese missile defense system to U.S. ally and NATO member Turkey should not be politicized.

China
Missile Defense
SACEUR General Phil Breedlove at LANDCOM, July 9, 2013

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Oct 25, 2013

Much Smaller, Much Leaner: NATO 3.0

By Ahu Özyurt, CNN Türk

NATO’s Land Command Headquarters in İzmir passed a critical milestone over the weekend.

NATO
Security & Defense
US Ambassador to Turkey Francis Ricciardone

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Oct 24, 2013

Ambassador: US ‘Very Concerned’ About Turkey-China Missile Deal

By Today's Zaman and Hurriyet Daily News

From Today’s Zaman: The United States is very concerned about a missile deal between Turkey and China, US Ambassador to Turkey Francis Ricciardone has said.

China
NATO
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, October 23, 2013

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Oct 24, 2013

US to Allies: NATO May be Asked to Assist in Destroying Chemical Weapons in Syria

By Chuck Hagel, Department of Defense

Today we held the first defense ministerial meeting in several years of the NATO-Russia Council.

NATO
Russia
French Mirage fighter jets in Baltic Air Policing mission, January 4, 2010

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Oct 23, 2013

Row Over NATO Air Policing Rotation Clouds Baltic Cooperation

By Baltic News Service

The Baltic States have still failed to settle the dispute on the future of NATO’s air-policing mission: Lithuania insists that it sees no reasons for shifting a part of the mission to Estonia, as requested by Tallinn.

NATO
Security & Defense
US has only two Coast Guard icebreakers, "neither in first-class shape"

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Oct 23, 2013

High North or High Tension?

By James Stavridis, Foreign Policy

The recent rise in tension in Russia’s relationship with the other Arctic front-line states — all of which happen to be in NATO — doesn’t help.

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