NATO summits

The head of state added that the NATO summit in Brussels this year will mark a new stage in the process of adapting the alliance to the current security challenges and threats. He pointed out that, in preparation for this meeting, the summit of the Bucharest format in Warsaw this June, which he will co-chair ...

The Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, criticized the Netherlands for still not increasing Defense spending to 2 percent of the gross domestic product. "We expect more. This is about what's fair", he said in a conversation with the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of Dutch parliament, on Thursday, ...

Kyiv expects NATO member states to confirm support for the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine at the NATO summit in July, Head of the Mission of Ukraine to NATO Vadym Prystaiko has said. “We expect the heads of state to confirm Ukraine's aspirant status. This is a recognition that we are on ...

Macron looked up footage of Trump's erratic handshake technique, where he yanks the whole arm of the other person towards him in an apparent act of dominance. When Macron's turn came, however, he was ready. The encounter was at a NATO summit last May, and Macron seemed to come off stronger in a battle of wills ...

The European allies are struggling to define what should go into their defence outlays to show progress on burden-sharing when NATO leaders gather for their next summit in July in Brussels. Those who oppose budgetary input as the only basis for meeting NATO's guideline to spend 2% of GDP on ...

"At a NATO summit in July, we plan to launch a training mission in Iraq to help local forces to stabilize their own country and prevent international terrorist threats like the Islamic State (IS) from coming back," he said at a press conference with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. This year's NATO ...

With the 2018 NATO Summit in Brussels approaching, the Alliance should bring long-overdue focus to the maritime challenges in Northern Europe—and the steps it must take to address them. In recent years, Russian shallow-water naval capabilities in Northern Europe have improved substantially, and ...

The solving of name row that exists between the two countries is seen as main obstacle that Macedonia has to overcome in order to make progress towards EU and NATO integration. During the NATO summit in Bucharest in 2008, Greece vetoed FYROM's application to enter the alliance without having ...

Obama's 2014 visit came shortly before the NATO Summit in Wales, and the American reassurances came just after NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen had announced plans for the creation of a new NATO spearhead force, a multinational unit made up of several thousand soldiers, that was ...

NATO's summit in Brussels is due on July 11-12, 2018. On March 4, GRU Colonel Sergei Skripal, convicted in Russia of spying for Britain, and his daughter Yulia, were poisoned by a nerve gas in Salisbury, if the British version of the incident is to be believed. London claimed that the poisonous substance ...

U.S. President Donald Trump poses with fellow world leaders during a NATO summit in Brussels, Belgium, May 25, 2017. America is the most powerful nation on earth. It possesses the strongest military, largest economy, and dominant culture. Nevertheless, such factors do not necessarily translate into ...

Obama's 2014 visit came shortly before the NATO Summit in Wales, and the American reassurances came just after NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen had announced plans for the creation of a new NATO spearhead force, a multinational unit made up of several thousand soldiers, that was ...

"It is also clear that recently the Russia demonization campaign is apparently losing steam and new 'fuel' is needed as the NATO summit is coming, where it will be necessary to justify decisions to strengthen the eastern flank, increase military spending, and purchases of weapons," he added. According to ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives for the opening of the NATO summit on July 8, 2016 at the Belweder Palace in Warsaw, Poland. The Polish capital Warsaw hosts a two-day top-level NATO meeting, for the first time since Poland joined the alliance in 1999. / AFP / STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN ...

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko plans to attend the summer NATO summit despite Hungary's warnings that it would block participation of the Ukrainian side, the head of Ukraine's Mission to NATO Vadym Prystaiko has announced. “The president is anyway going to Brussels, as there are other ...

Mr Stoltenberg said he expected the response to Russia to be reassessed at July's Nato summit, telling German media the Salisbury attack followed a pattern of Russia "becoming more unpredictable and more aggressive". Theresa May said the UK government would consider its next steps "in the coming ...

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said he expected German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other NATO leaders to revamp their approach at the next NATO summit this summer, given a risk that Russia could gradually give more weight to nuclear weapons in its doctrine, exercises and new military ...

Meanwhile, Stoltenberg said he expects that the NATO summit scheduled for July will recognize Georgia for the progress it has made with its reform efforts and for its contributions to NATO operations, particularly in Afghanistan. At a 2008 summit in Bucharest, NATO agreed that Georgia and Ukraine will ...

BRUSSELS -- Georgia's membership in NATO could contribute to the stability of the alliance and Europe as a whole, President Giorgi Margvelashvili has said. In an interview with RFE/RL on March 10 in Brussels, Margvelashvili outlined Georgia's main objectives for an upcoming NATO summit in Brussels ...

That design's final results will be presented to the NATO defence ministerial meeting in June, and then for the NATO Summit in July, Gen Pavel told reporters during a meeting in Washington, DC, on 7 March. Want to read more? For analysis on this article and access to all our insight content, please enquire ...

“At the last NATO summit, cyber [security] was recognized as a new operational domain in addition to air, land and marine. This means that there is a completely new dimension which requires close cooperation between military and civil. While on one hand, we acknowledge we need to ensure the wider ...

The administration had demanded quick action by the end of 2017, but it is more likely that almost half the alliance, including economic powerhouse Germany, will not meet the 2 percent goal in time for the July 2018 NATO Summit in Brussels or any time soon after that. Despite Trump's frequent criticism of ...

“It served as an important line of communication between the Senate and NATO and the Senate and candidate countries in the months prior to the July 1997 NATO summit in Madrid at which Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary were admitted to the alliance,” Daschle said in 2002. “The SNOG and the ...

The administration had demanded quick action by the end of 2017, but it is more likely that almost half the alliance, including economic powerhouse Germany, will not meet the 2 percent goal in time for the July 2018 NATO Summit in Brussels or any time soon after that. Despite Trump's frequent criticism of ...

A Ukrainian delegation led by President Petro Poroshenko will attend the NATO summit in June, but the question of holding a meeting of the Ukraine-NATO commission at the presidential and governmental level is still open, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine ...

April 3-4, 2009 - The 23rd NATO summit also marks NATO's 60th anniversary. Events are held in Strasbourg, France and Kehl, Germany. During the summit, France rejoins NATO's military command. August 1, 2009 - Former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen takes office as the 12th secretary ...