NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer visited Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina on 16 March. This was his first visit to these two countries since they joined the Partnership for Peace Programme in December of last year.
As part of Operation Achilles, NATO's largest ground operation in Afghanistan, Alliance-led forces are expanding their presence in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan.
Forces from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) rescued some 600 villagers trapped by flooding in southern Afghanistan.
Germany is to host a technology demonstration for Defence Against Mortar Attacks (DAMA), at its firing range in Todendorf, 27-28 March.
The NATO Science Partnership Prize for 2007 has been awarded to two scientists from Kazakhstan and the United Kingdom for excellent collaboration in a NATO-sponsored Science for Peace project.
Last week, three French Rafale jet fighters joined the aerial support for the NATO-led ISAF mission in Afghanistan.
From 24 February to 2 March 2007, a selected group of senior editorialists and representatives of the think-tank community from Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Spain, and Slovakia participated in a NATO-sponsored tour of Afghanistan.
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