"NATO Update" provides
up-to-date news on NATO activities and events.
Conceived for the general public, it aims to give a
broad overview of Alliance-wide initiatives.
NATO North Atlantic Council Statement on
North Korea
On July 5, the North
Atlantic Council met in Brussels to express the Alliance’s grave
concern over North Korea’s (DPRK’s) launch of a Taepodong-2 and
other missiles.
Speaking at the opening
of a local vehicle maintenance plant, the Commander of the NATO-led
forces in Afghanistan, Lt. Gen. David Richards, highlighted the work
in the province as model for future NATO-led operations in the
country.
A report
presented at a major UN conference highlights how NATO and its
Partners are contibuting to the fight against the illicit trade in
small arms, also through the destruction of millions of surplus arms
and munitions.
On 4 July 2006, NATO Assistant Secretary General for Public
Diplomacy, Jean Fournet, and the first deputy Prime Minister of
Azerbaijan, Abid Sharifov, officially inaugurated a melange
conversion plant in Azerbaijan.
On 19 June, NATO’s
Public Diplomacy Division organised, in the context of the public
diplomacy activities for the Mediterranean Dialogue, a visit to NATO
Headquarters of Members of the Parliament of the Hashemite Kingdom
of Jordan who met with NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer.
