"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.
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| NATO Ministers take forward Riga
agenda |
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Meeting in New York in
preparation for the upcoming NATO Summit in Riga, Foreign Ministers
addressed the Alliance’s operation in Afghanistan, enlargement of
NATO, strengthening NATO’s partnerships, intensified dialogue with
Georgia and the situation in Darfur.
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| Russian ship flies NATO flag |
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The Russian Federation
ship Pitliviy flew the NATO flag as it joined the NATO naval force
that monitors shipping and possible threats in the Mediterranean as
part of the Alliance’s Operation Active Endeavour.
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| Further Australian support to NATO-ISAF's
reconstruction efforts |
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Around 100 Australian soldiers have
arrived in Uruzgan Province in southern Afghanistan as part of
Australia's contribution to the NATO-led International Security
Assistance Force (ISAF).
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| NATO Secretary General expresses great sorrow
at death of Canadian-ISAF soldiers |
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I would like to express
my great sorrow at the death of four of our Canadian-ISAF soldiers
today. I send my most sincere condolences to the families of the
victims.
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| First meeting of NATO transformation
chiefs |
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The first ever
meeting of chiefs of transformation from NATO countries, held at
Allied Command Transformation in Norfolk, Virginia, US, wrapped up
on 13 September 2006.
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| Contract Award for NATO’s Theatre Ballistic
Missile Defence Programme |
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A key decision has been
taken for NATO’s Active Layered Theatre Ballistic Missile Defence
(ALTBMD) Programme. Marking a major milestone in Alliance efforts to
field a “layered†theatre missile defence system providing
protection for deployed NATO forces, a selection of an international
consortium to build an Integration Test Bed puts NATO on track to
have an initial operational capability by 2010.
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