• Secretary General in Istanbul: Turkey is a great power in this great region and with great power comes great responsibility
• Secretary General praises Greece’s contributions to NATO
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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is visiting Turkey on Friday (11 October 2019) to discuss preparations for the NATO leaders’ meeting in London this December, marking NATO’s 70th anniversary. In his meeting with Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu in Istanbul today, the Secretary General thanked Turkey for its commitment and many contributions to NATO.
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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg arrived in Athens on Thursday (10 October 2019) for talks with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and President Prokopis Pavlopoulos. To honour fallen Greek soldiers, the Secretary General also laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg met with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte in Rome on Wednesday (9 October 2019).
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NATO Deputy Secretary General Rose Gottemoeller met with the European Commissioner for the Security Union, Sir Julian King, on Wednesday (9 October 2019) for talks on common security challenges.
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NATO and Japan held cyber defence staff talks this week to assess current cyber threats and policy developments.
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A new coordination system to handle civil emergencies was successfully tested during an exercise in Montenegro, which wrapped up with the departure of the teams on Friday (4 October 2019). The four-day event was part of a multi-year project under NATO's Science for Peace and Security Programme.
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Eighteen NATO Allies are participating in exercise Dynamic Mariner/ Flotex-19 off the coast of Spain. (Courtesy of Allied Maritime Command)
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A group of scientists and engineers from NATO’s Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation embarked aboard NATO Research Vessel Alliance to conduct experimental mine countermeasure operations off the coast of Spain from 7 to 11 October 2019. (Courtesy of Allied Command Operations)
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After an initial series of briefings and familiarisation flights, the Italian Air Force detachment, currently based at Keflavik, Iceland, was declared mission ready – two days ahead of time – to conduct NATO’s peacetime Icelandic Air Policing mission (5 Oct 2019). (Courtesy of Allied Command Operations)
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How do you prepare for disasters? According to this team from Romania’s emergency medical service, you can prepare using computer simulations, allowing teams to practise responding to dangerous situations without actually endangering themselves.
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