Category: NATOSource

NATO delegation meeting with Russian military officials in Moscow

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti:  A NATO delegation will visit Russia on July 22-24 to discuss cooperation on the fight against sea piracy and Russia’s assistance to NATO contingent in Afghanistan, the Russian Defense Ministry said. NATO officials, led by Chairman of the NATO Military Committee Adm. Giampaolo di Paola, will meet with Chief of the General […]

OSCE sending police force to Kyrgyzstan

By Reuters

From Reuters:  Europe’s main security watchdog Thursday approved plans to send a 52-member unarmed police force to help restore peace in southern Kyrgyzstan a month after the worst bloodshed in the Central Asian state’s modern history. The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said its 56-nation permanent council had voted to deploy the […]

Obama strategist: ‘the durability of this mission has to be attended to’

By David E. Sanger, the New York Times

From David E. Sanger, the New York Times:  When President Obama announced a new strategy for Afghanistan in December, he argued that by setting a deadline of next summer to begin drawing down troops he would create a sense of urgency for the Afghan government to take the lead in the fight, while acknowledging the […]

Killing Revives Fear of Domestic Terrorism in Greece

By Niki Kitsantonis, the New York Times

From Niki Kitsantonis, the New York Times:  When Sokratis Giolias, a little-known journalist and blogger, was killed outside his home here in a gangland-style shooting, speculation focused on a reprisal by shady underworld figures. But within hours, counterterrorism officers joined homicide detectives in the inquiry after tests on the cartridge cases of the 16 bullets […]

All Together Now: Missile Defense

By Sam Nunn, Igor Ivanov, and Wolfgang Ischinger, the International Herald Tribune

From Sam Nunn, Igor Ivanov, and Wolfgang Ischinger, the International Herald Tribune:  No other initiative has more near-term potential to ease the NATO-Russian relationship out of its petulant, impacted state, while giving a positive jolt to the revived but tentative and unfocused interest in an improved and more inclusive European security system, than missile-defense cooperation. Were […]

NATO fears Somali pirates moving to south Red Sea

By Adam Schreck, the AP

From Adam Schreck, the AP:  The commander of NATO’s counter-piracy flotilla said Wednesday that Somali pirates squeezed by a multinational armada in the Gulf of Aden may be shifting some operations to the southern Red Sea where naval forces lack clear authority to stop them. In addition to one recent attack in the area, Commodore […]

Chances of Azerbaijan Joining NATO

By news.az

From news.az:   Excerpt from interview with Alexandros Petersen, non-resident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Dino Patriciu Eurasia Center.  Do you view Azerbaijan as a NATO member in the nearest perspective?

Turkey: The sentinel swivels

By Delphine Strauss and David Gardner, the Financial Times

Rasmussen: NATO seeks deeper relations with Pakistan

By AFP

From AFP:  NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Wednesday he sought broader, deeper ties with Pakistan, in a visit to Islamabad that followed a major international conference in neighbouring Afghanistan. Rasmussen reiterated a NATO commitment to stay in Afghanistan beyond the planned end of combat operations in 2014, and said he understood Pakistan’s vital role […]