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Transatlantic Focus
A U.S.
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Allies and Partners Adopt New Afghan Approach
Protect the Afghan people. Build Afghan security capacity. Facilitate governance and development. Forty-four foreign ministers of contributing forces met to decide these were the priorities for the way forward in Afghanistan.
Hundreds of Herat Police Graduate
As Allies call for greater Afghan capacity to secure the country, NATO training missions are actively engaged in this very objective.
Clinton Addresses Corruption at Karzai Inauguration
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton praised Afghan President Hamid Karzai
November 19 in Kabul for the renewed commitment he
expressed in his second-term inaugural address to end
government corruption and set the stage to decrease the
international military footprint in Afghanistan.
December 2009 Foreign Ministerial -- Capsule
NATO Foreign Ministers made landmark decisions on ISAF troop levels in Afghanistan, missile defense planning, and NATO-Russia relations during the NATO foreign ministers meetings at NATO Headquarters December 3 and 4.
NATO and Russia Move Partnership Forward
Pushing forward on cooperation agreements, foreign ministers from the 28 NATO Allies and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held a formal session of the NATO-Russia Council (NRC) December 4.
Second Seminar on NATO's Strategic Concept: NATO’s Engagement in an Era of Globalization
The Group of Experts on NATO’s new Strategic Concept held their second key seminar with leading civilian and military experts in Brdo,
Slovenia, on November 13.
Ambassadors Who Bus: USNATO and the Greening Diplomacy Initiative
In the spirit of good stewardship and good fun, USNATO Ambassador Ivo Daalder
recently invited Ambassadors from all 28
NATO Member Countries to save fuel by
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U.S. Policy
Statements,
Speeches, and Interviews
2/3/10 Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security at the Global Zero Summit
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2/2/10 Ambassador Daalder discusses his trip to Afghanistan on DipNote,
the official blog of the State Department -
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1/29/10 Secretary Clinton: Remarks on the Future of European Security. Read
the transcript
01/27/10:
Remarks by President Obama in the 2010 State of the Union Address. Read
the transcript
01/22/10: In a press roundtable with German journalists, Ambassador Daalder outlined the four most important policy issues facing NATO as it moves toward its November 2010 summit in Lisbon. Watch the video -
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Remarks
by NATO
Ambassador Ivo H. Daalder Vilnius, 01/15/2010
"NATO Partnerships", Vilnius
Remarks of President Barack Obama
12/10/09
A Just and Lasting Peace - Acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize,
Oslo, Norway
Statement by National Security Council Spokesman Mike Hammer
12/04/09
NATO’s decision to increase troop and training contributions to Afghanistan in 2010
Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation on the Way Forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan
12/01/09 Watch the video
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U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Michèle Flournoy,
in Brussels, Belgium 11/5/09
Watch the video
Ambassador Daalder Speech at
Slovak Atlantic Commission International Security Conference
Bratislava 10/22/09
New Nuclear
Disarmament Proposals: Implications for NATO and the Transatlantic
Relations
Speech
by Ambassador Alexander R. Vershbow, Bratislava, Oct. 22, 2009
Crafting
the new Strategic Concept: Ambitions, Resources, and Partnerships
for a 21st Century Alliance”
President Obama Speech at the UN 9/24/09
Remarks on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament
Missile
Defense in Europe 09/17/09
Remarks by the President on Strengthening Missile Defense in Europe
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Fact Sheet
Ambassador Daalder Speech at
Chatham House,
London 09/14/09
NATO in a New Era of Engagement
Ambassador Daalder Speech at the
Netherlands Atlantic Commission,
The Hague 09/03/09
NATO in Afghanistan: A New Approach to Operations
NATO’s
60th Anniversary Summit
Summary of Summit Meeting
and Key Documents
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