Category: NATOSource

Secretary General: NATO’s partnership with South Korea is ‘young,’ but ‘has great potential’

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

UAE’s Foreign Minister opens first Arab mission at NATO headquarters

By Emirate News Agency

From Emirate News Agency:  H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Foreign Minister of the UAE, opened the headquarters of the Emirati mission at the Atlantic Alliance (NATO)

President of Estonia: Cyber allows enemies to ‘paralyze a country without attacking its defense forces’

By Toomas Hendrik Ilves, International Herald Tribune

From Toomas Hendrik Ilves, International Herald Tribune:  Today, almost everything we do depends on a digitized system of one kind or another.

Next NATO commander Breedlove wary of Syria no-fly zone

By Kevin Baron, E-Ring

From Kevin Baron, E-Ring:  The likely next NATO supreme allied commander, U.S. Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove, told Congress he saw “no military value” in creating a no-fly zone inside of Northern Syria.

SACEUR nominee: ‘We cannot rebalance or re-pivot towards Asia without Europe’

By Jennifer H. Svan, Stars and Stripes

From Jennifer H. Svan, Stars and Stripes:  Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove told a Senate panel considering his nomination to lead U.S. and NATO forces in Europe that he’s committed to continue building on and maintaining critical gains in interoperability achieved with European allies over the past 12 years of war.

France names new spymaster

By Reuters

From Reuters:  Bernard Bajolet, a career diplomat with a history of postings in the Arab world, was nominated on Tuesday as the new head of France’s DGSE external intelligence agency.

SACEUR’s three big agenda items for 2013

By James Stavridis, Allied Command Operations

From James Stavridis, Allied Command Operations:  As I look at NATO and U.S. European Command in 2013, I see three big agenda items.

Secretary General and South Korea’s Foreign Minister discuss NATO Partnership

By NATO

Iceland would like to join NATO Cyber Defense Center

By Postimees

From Postimees:  At his meeting in Reykjavik with Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet, Icelandic Foreign Minister Össur Skarphéðinsson said that Iceland would like to join the NATO Cyber Defence Centre located in Tallinn.

An independent Scotland would have to ‘support nuclear weapons’ to gain access to NATO

By Auslan Cramb, Telegraph

From Auslan Cramb, Telegraph:  Lord Robertson of Port Ellen, who as George Robertson was a Labour defence secretary, said the confirmation from Nato that a separate Scottish state would have to apply for membership had left the SNP facing a “huge dilemma.”