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Sep 24, 2012

Deputy SecGen Vershbow: NATO must continue to adapt to meet security demands of the 21st century

By atlantic-community.org

From atlantic-community.org:  Excerpts from Atlantic Community sponsored Q&A with Deputy Secretary General of NATO Ambassador Alexander Vershbow.

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Sep 24, 2012

NATO signs cooperation accord with Iraq

By NATO

From NATO:  NATO on Monday (24 September 2012) signed a cooperation agreement with Iraq which will foster closer security ties and help Iraq build up its security institutions. NATO Deputy Secretary General Ambassador Alexander Vershbow and Iraqi National Security Adviser Faleh Faisal Al-Fayyadh signed the so-called Individual Partnership and Cooperation Programme (IPCP) at NATO headquarters. […]

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Sep 24, 2012

NATO Enlargement Reloaded

By Karl-Heinz Kamp, NATO Defense College

From Karl-Heinz Kamp, NATO Defense College:  [T]he four aspirant countries (Bosnia-Herzegovina, FYROM, Georgia and Montenegro) cannot be treated as a homogenous group, but require individual approaches regarding the accession to NATO.

New Atlanticist

Sep 24, 2012

Founding Father of a Federal Europe

By Ben Carliner

Formally, the European Central Bank has but a single mandate – price stability. But as the debt crisis facing the Eurozone has evolved into an existential challenge, the ECB has been pushed into taking on responsibilities far beyond its original raison d’etre.

Economy & Business Europe & Eurasia

MENASource

Sep 24, 2012

Morsi Interviews: Foreign Relations in New York, Domestic Issues in Cairo

By Nancy Messieh

Arriving in New York to attend the 67th session of the UN General Assembly, where he is expected to discuss, among other things, Egypt’s position regarding the current situation in Syria, President Mohamed Morsi gave a bit of insight into his priorities during an interview with the New York Times. Morsi took the interview as […]

NATOSource

Sep 24, 2012

Iraq ‘must stop’ allowing Iranian arms shipments to Syria

By the Editors of the New York Times

From the Editors of the New York Times:  Baghdad is showing a distressing willingness to side with the region’s most repressive regimes, not just Iran but also Iran’s chief ally, the brutal Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad. In recent months, the United States has accused Iraq of allowing Iran to fly weapons through its airspace to […]

United States and Canada

MENASource

Sep 24, 2012

Top News: Supreme Administrative Court Upholds HCC Verdict Leading to Dissolution of People’s Assembly

By Egypt Source

The Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) ruled Saturday to uphold the verdict of the High Constitutional Court (HCC) deeming the People’s Assembly, formed after national polls in November 2011 unconstitutional. The assembly was dissolved on the basis of that verdict. 

NATOSource

Sep 24, 2012

Top China official visits Afghanistan, signs security deal

By Rob Taylor, Reuters

From Rob Taylor, Reuters:  China has signed security and economic agreements with Afghanistan during a rare trip to Kabul by a top Chinese official, in deals seen aimed at bolstering Beijing’s influence ahead of a NATO withdrawal of most combat forces by 2014.

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Sep 22, 2012

NATO SecGen honors ‘service men and women who embody and reaffirm’ the transatlantic bond

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

From Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO:  As I’m here as Secretary General of NATO, please allow me to use this occasion to express my deep gratitude to everyone in the American armed forces.

United States and Canada

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Sep 22, 2012

Turkey’s miscarriage of justice

By Dani Rodrik, Washington Post

From Dani Rodrik, Washington Post:  After a patently sham trial, a Turkish court on Friday handed down lengthy jail sentences to more than 300 military officers convicted of planning a coup, code-named Sledgehammer, in 2003.

United States and Canada
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