• Statement by the NATO Secretary General on the Open Skies Treaty
• An innovative way to fight COVID-19
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NATO Allies met today to discuss the Open Skies Treaty. We are firmly committed to the preservation of effective international arms control, disarmament, and non-proliferation. We all agree that all states party to the Open Skies Treaty must fully implement their commitments and obligations. All NATO Allies are in full compliance with all provisions of the Treaty.
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The NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg welcomed the offers of the United Kingdom and the State of Qatar to provide airlift assets coordinated by NATO’s Euro Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Centre (EADRCC) in support of the United Nations’ efforts to fight the COVID 19 pandemic.
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Today, the Polish military contingent operating with the NATO-led Kosovo Force (KFOR) has distributed sanitary and personal protection equipment to the Health Institutions in Kosovo, as part of NATO Allies’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Troops from NATO’s enhanced Forward Presence Battlegroup in Lithuania are training together with British and Spanish pilots from the Alliance’s Baltic Air Policing mission.
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I welcome the decision taken by Afghanistan’s political leaders to resolve their differences and join efforts to form an inclusive government.
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The Director General of the NATO International Military Staff, Lieutenant General Hans-Werner Wiermann, and the Director General of the European Union Military Staff, Lieutenant General Esa Pulkkinen, co-chaired the first NATO-EU bi-annual meeting this year on 19 May 2020.
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The NATO Communications and Information (NCI) Agency is looking for ideas from start-ups, inventors and innovators for new technologies to process radar data and give the Alliance a clearer picture of activities in our skies.
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In the context of its ongoing work on emerging and disruptive technologies, NATO’s Emerging Security Challenges Division organised a workshop on 18 May 2020 to discuss NATO’s engagement with non-defence technology companies.
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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg had a phone call with the Prime Minister of Libya, Fayez al-Sarraj, on 16 May 2020, at the Prime Minister’s request, to discuss developments in Libya.
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Lt Col Piotr Wachna is a deputy commander at the 4th Chemical Regiment of the Polish army based in Brodnica in north-central Poland. This regiment is considered to be the elite in the area of protection against chemical weapons.
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Today (15 May 2020), the Netherlands delivered another set of protective equipment and medical supplies from Bejing (China) to Podgorica (Montenegro), in support to Allied efforts against the COVID-19 global pandemic, following Montenegro’s request for assistance, through NATO’s Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Centre, NATO’s principal disaster response mechanism.
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The Baltic region’s biggest annual mine counter-measures exercise – named Open Spirit – concluded on Thursday (14 May 2020). (Courtesy of Allied Maritime Command)
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The first two A-330 tanker aircraft purchased by the NATO Support and Procurement Agency are set to arrive in the Netherlands in June. Under the multilateral multi-role tanker transporter programme, six NATO countries will jointly own and operate eight Airbus A-330s, sharing flying hours and costs.
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In Taranto, Italy, a team of the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) established a cooperation with an Italian start-up called ISINNOVA that resulted in the production of 25 3D-printed connectors – on a weekly basis – converting snorkelling masks into emergency ventilator masks. These were donated to the Italian Civil Protection Department for further distribution in the hospitals that needed them most.
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