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Failure to Launch Military Strike Against Syria will be Taken as a Sign of Western Weakness, says NATO SecGen

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NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, May 8, 2013

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Sep 9, 2013

Failure to Launch Military Strike Against Syria will be Taken as a Sign of Western Weakness, says NATO SecGen

By James Tapsfield, Independent

The head of Nato has warned that failure to launch military reprisals against Syria will be taken as a sign of Western “weakness”, as Barack Obama struggles to get congressional support for action.

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Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen

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Sep 9, 2013

Secretary General Opens NATO Energy Security Center of Excellence in Lithuania

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

It is a great honour to open this NATO Centre of Excellence on Energy Security. When we wrote our new Strategic Concept three years ago, we emphasised the importance of energy security.

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NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen

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Sep 6, 2013

NATO Secretary General on Europe’s Defense Needs

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

Excerpts from speech by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen at the Inter-parliamentary Conference for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Vilnius.

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European Union
Russian State Secretary and Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin

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Sep 5, 2013

Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Warns of ‘Serious Consequences’ if Georgia Joins NATO

By Katerina O. Labetskaya, Russia Direct

[I]t seems that some politicians in the West regard the positive processes to ease the tensions in Russian-Georgian relations as an opportunity to continue the same policy of attracting Tbilisi into NATO

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NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė

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Sep 5, 2013

President Grybauskaitė : NATO Exercises Enhance Lithuania’s Security

By Lithuania Tribune

President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen to discuss the implementation of NATO’s contingency plans for the Baltic States

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NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen

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Sep 5, 2013

NATO Chief Regrets Divisions Over Syria

By AFP

NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen sharply regretted international divisions over Syria on Sept. 5, warning that such splits risked sending a message of encouragement to dictators

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President Obama and Nordic leaders

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Sep 5, 2013

Obama and Nordic Leaders Launch New Security Dialogue

By White House

Excerpt from Joint Statement by Kingdom of Denmark, Republic of Finland, Republic of Iceland, Kingdom of Norway, Kingdom of Sweden, and the United States of America

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President Barack Obama and Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt

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Sep 4, 2013

US and Sweden Agree on Key Security Issues

By Barack Obama and Fredrik Reinfeldt, White House

Excerpts from Joint Statement by President Obama and Prime Minister Reinfeldt of Sweden

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Baltic Air Policing

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Sep 4, 2013

Belgian Jets Begin Baltic Air Policing Mission

By ERR and Lithuania Tribune

From ERR:  Today [9/3/13], the French air force will hand over its duties in patrolling the Baltic airspace to Belgian fighters.

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New Atlanticist

Sep 3, 2013

Why the US Should Use Cyber Weapons against Syria

By Jason Healey

If the Obama administration does conduct military strikes against Syria, as seems likely, it should use military cyber weapons at the earliest possible moment to show the upside of military cyber power. Though this is risky, as it puts the focus on the U.S. militarization of cyberspace, it is likely worth doing to show that […]

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