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New Atlanticist

Oct 11, 2013

Iran Nuclear Talks Return to Geneva with Better Prospects

By Barbara Slavin

There’s an element of déjà vu about next week’s planned talks in Geneva on Iran’s nuclear program.   Four years ago, the United States and Iran reached a tentative agreement on a confidence building measure that would have sent out most of Iran’s stockpile of lightly enriched uranium in return for fuel for a reactor […]

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New Atlanticist

Oct 11, 2013

The Bosnian Census and the Future of the Dayton Peace Agreement

By Sarah Bedenbaugh

For the first time since Bosnia and Herzegovina gained independence from Yugoslavia, the country is conducting a national census.  In most countries, census-taking is an automatic, rather tedious method of record-keeping carried out at varying intervals.  In Bosnia, however, the census has stirred up deep-rooted ethnic tensions once more, and brings up fundamental questions about […]

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NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, October 10, 2013

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Oct 11, 2013

Rasmussen Confirms Georgia is Joining NATO Response Force in 2015

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

Georgia, has offered to join the Response Force in the future, and been accepted.

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President of Finland Sauli Niinisto and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Nov. 14, 2012

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Oct 10, 2013

The Case for Finland to Join NATO

By Pauli Järvenpää, ICDS

[A]s far as the Finnish president is concerned, Finland now enjoys the best of all possible worlds: it is satisfied with the present level of cooperation with NATO

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NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, October 10, 2013

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Oct 10, 2013

Zeidan Kidnapping Highlights 5 Month Delay in NATO-Libya Security Agreement

By John Vandiver, Stars and Stripes

The reported abduction of Libya’s prime minster early Thursday has exposed the shortcomings in the country’s security sector

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NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, October 10, 2013

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Oct 10, 2013

NATO Secretary General: ‘Something Needs to be Done’ to Help Libya

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

I can confirm that the Libyan authorities have requested NATO assistance to build or reform the security sector.

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New Atlanticist

Oct 10, 2013

Shutdown Diminishes US as a Global Power

By Nicholas Burns

The federal government shutdown has done serious harm to the public and threatens to create even more havoc as it veers toward a once unthinkable US default next week. Its effects have also been felt around the globe, as America’s allies and adversaries wonder how in the world we got ourselves into this mess.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, April 23, 2013

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Oct 10, 2013

NATO Chief Rebukes Karzai, Defends Afghan Progress

By AP and NATO

From AP:  NATO’s secretary-general has sharply rejected Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s view that the presence of international troops in his country caused much suffering but achieved few gains.

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MENASource

Oct 10, 2013

The General Speaks Out

By Mohamed Elgohari

For the first time since his appointment by ousted president Mohamed Morsi as defense minister, General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi spoke to the press, offering a rare interview to Yasser Rizk, editor-in-chief of the daily Al-Masry Al-Youm. The importance of the interview can be seen in the implicit and explicit messages from the strongest man in […]

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Prime Minister of Libya Ali Zeidan

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Oct 10, 2013

Libyan Prime Minister Is Kidnapped, Then Freed

By David D. Kirkpatrick and Gerry Mullany

Libya’s prime minister, Ali Zeidan, was kidnapped from a hotel in the capital, Tripoli, on Thursday and briefly held in an apparent act of retaliation for his presumed consent to the capture of a suspected Qaeda leader by an American commando team.

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