Author. nato.int Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Copy link send email The foreign ministers of the Weimar Triangle countries published a text summarizing the current European support for Ukraine and talking about the most important challenges facing the North Atlantic Alliance, which is currently celebrating its 75th anniversary. The text by Annalena Baerbock (MFA of the Federal … Read more
– We had a Nordic-Baltic breakfast this morning. It is no secret that in that circle we think NATO should work even faster, says Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide (Ap). He is in Brussels to attend the NATO foreign ministers’ meeting. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba was also invited there on Thursday, when NATO also … Read more
Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu warned French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu that deploying troops to Ukraine would be a disaster for Paris. Photo/Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP MOSCOW – Deploying troops to Ukraine would be a disaster for France, says Defense Minister Russia Sergey Shoigu to his French colleague Sebastien Lecornu in a … Read more
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced that the alliance’s foreign ministers, meeting today and tomorrow in Brussels, will discuss a multi-year financial commitment to maintain support for Ukrainian. He emphasized that the NATO must change the dynamics of support for Ukraine. “We need to ensure reliable and predictable security assistance to Ukraine for a long … Read more
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“Lithuania supports the candidacy of Mr. Markas Rites for the post of NATO Secretary General,” Nausėda said at a joint press conference after the meeting. The Lithuanian president expressed confidence that the Dutch prime minister is a suitable candidate to succeed Jens Stoltenberg at the head of the alliance. Nauseda said that she has known … Read more
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“But in Berlin, which is almost 300 miles from the nearest Russian borders, there is not the sense of immediate threat that prevails in the Scandinavian and Baltic countries. One recent poll showed that 52% of voters support some form of conscription renewal, while 43% are against it,” the publication said. The authors of the … Read more
Although NATO’s 32 member states possess enormous amounts of weapons and soldiers, NATO is not in a situation where the member states have put their military forces on standby. While Russia is fighting a high-intensity war, has hundreds of thousands of heavily armed soldiers in action, and has put the country’s industry on a war … Read more
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Having just regained its independence from the Soviet regime, and still in the first stages of democracy, Latvia gradually began its first relations with NATO. At first – in the North Atlantic Cooperation Council, then in the “Partnership for Peace” program, up to the so-called road map, which is given to countries when NATO membership … Read more
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Twenty years ago – on March 29, 2004 – Latvia joined the North Atlantic Treaty, becoming a member state of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Latvia together with Bulgaria, Estonia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia were invited to join NATO at the NATO meeting in Prague in November 2002. At 8 a.m., with the participation … Read more
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Twenty years ago – on March 29, 2004 – Latvia joined the North Atlantic Treaty, becoming a member state of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Latvia together with Bulgaria, Estonia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia were invited to join NATO at the NATO meeting in Prague in November 2002. From the first day of membership … Read more