This week at NATO
Secretary General welcomes Latvian Foreign Minister to NATO Headquarters
Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg met with Latvian Foreign Minister Baiba Braze at NATO Headquarters on 23 May 2024 to discuss stepping up support for Ukraine and preparations for the upcoming Washington Summit.
German Eurofighters patrol the Baltic skies from Latvia
For the first time, jets assigned to NATO’s Air Policing mission are flying out of Latvia. A detachment of German Air Force Eurofighter Typhoons are currently based at Lielvarde Air Base, where they’re tasked with ensuring the safety and security of the airspace over and around Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
The Netherlands to host 2025 NATO Summit in The Hague
The 2025 NATO Summit will be held at the World Forum in The Hague, the Netherlands, from 24 to 26 June 2025.
Critical Undersea Infrastructure Network
Leading experts from across the Alliance met at NATO Headquarters on 23 May 2024 for the first meeting of NATO’s new Critical Undersea Infrastructure Network. With rising challenges to undersea infrastructure, the Alliance is putting in place new tools to enhance the security of undersea cables and pipelines and to monitor potential threats.
The Netherlands takes command of NATO Mission Iraq
Lieutenant General Lucas Schreurs of the Netherlands assumed command of NATO Mission Iraq on 24 May 2024, at a change of command ceremony in Baghdad. He succeeds Lieutenant General José Antonio Agüero Martínez of Spain, who had been in post since May 2023.
Deputy Secretary General reaffirms importance of NATO’s partnership with Bosnia and Herzegovina
Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoan? met with the Minister of Defence of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Zukan Helez, at NATO Headquarters on 22 May 2024. He reiterated NATO’s strong support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Alliance’s steadfast commitment to its long-standing partnership with the country.
Chair of the NATO Military Committee visits Colombia
From 19 until 23 May 2024, Chair of the NATO Military Committee Admiral Rob Bauer visited Colombia upon the invitation of its Chief of Defence General Helder Fernan Giraldo Bonilla. The goal of the visit was to discuss the military cooperation between NATO and Colombia, which started in 2015 and intensified in 2017 when Colombia became one of NATO’s global partners.
NATO and Armenia strengthen their defence education cooperation
Representatives from the Armenian Ministry of Defence met with their counterparts at NATO Headquarters at the end of April to review activities conducted within the framework of NATO’s Defence Education Enhancement Programme (DEEP) for Armenia.
Pictures of the week
NATO paratroopers land in Sweden for exercise Swift Response 24
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8 个月Protecting the FREE WORLD
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Consultant to the Government of the United States and MNC's. (Retired)
9 个月In 1990 I suggested "Ukraine should move politically westward and proceed to join the EU and NATO". The problem was if you believe in the power of evil, it becomes real to you; if you fail to believe and proceed you will not derail your own plan yourself. Sweden, Finland, and Ukraine were still afraid of offending the Russians. The most important countries, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, ran to NATO and the EU to join before the Russians went back to what they know and believe. That was the time for Ukraine to run with the Baltic states, we should have offered Russia membership in NATO, just to see how they would respond at that time of disorganization. We now have threats much greater than Russia, so our threats will be asymmetrical attacks from State and non-State actors to disrupt our infrastructure which they hope will give them political and military superiority but could devolve into a series of provocations which we both expect just like the old days. We should not underestimate the importance of submarine pipelines and cables, but we may face a substantial threat in the future from a very powerful State actor which will educate us all to the new warfare that is neither symmetrical nor limited to one definable State.
Director Departament Editorial- Poligrafic la Academia de Studii Economice; Redactor ?ef- adjunct la revista “ECONOMICA”.
9 个月Yes, you are right! NATO is a cumbersome structure, administered by people with exaggerated caution and childish reaction. How else to explain the fact that the secret services and the army of Russia is always one step ahead? How to explain the fact that after the dissolution of the USSR, the countries that gained independence and wanted to join the EU and NATO, were left to "float freely"? Then, urgently, they had to be included in a prior 5-10 year project of analysis and military training. NATO was supposed to continue the secret Plan to break up the great Russia into several Republics (from where it "drains" its underground wealth and manufactures armaments). NATO should have foreseen Russia's aggression against Ukraine and not allow its disarmament, and if it signed the Treaty, as a guarantor, to act urgently, as soon as the Treaty was violated, not with delay, after 2-3 months after the invasion .
Automotive Engineer Consultant @ Expert Witness | Engineering Training
9 个月Would be nice to see sit down Talk and start some TALKS too start resolution, ,has to start some time suggest on Committee , Tony Abbot ,John Howard ,John Anderson from Australia , War = big money++ destruction = re building Cities ??