• NATO Secretary General visits Washington D.C.
• NATO develops counter drone technology
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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg visited Washington D.C. to meet senior United States officials and lawmakers. On 4 October 2021, Mr Stoltenberg met President Joe Biden at the White House to discuss how to further strengthen the transatlantic bond and prepare the NATO Summit in Madrid next year.
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NATO’s next Summit will take place in Madrid on 29-30 June 2022, the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced during a visit by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg today (08 October 2021). The Secretary General also met with the King of Spain, His Majesty Felipe VI at the Zarzuela palace.
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Eighty former NATO Afghan employees and their family members are now being resettled in Norway. They departed temporary facilities in Kosovo on a charted civilian airline flight from Pristina to Norway on 5 October 2021.
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Speaking at an event for alumni of the Arthur Burns journalism fellowship in Berlin on 6 October 2021, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that ''a strong Germany at the heart of a strong NATO is as important as ever to keep us safe in an uncertain world.''
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National Security Advisers from across the Alliance met in Brussels on 7 October 2021 to review progress in key areas, including enhancing deterrence and defence, technological innovation and responding to climate change.
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On 4 October 2021, NATO Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoană travelled to Luxembourg and met with Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of Defence François Bausch and Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean Asselborn.
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On 6 October 2021, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg virtually addressed a high-level event organised by Germany's Minister of Defence, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, on the initial assessment of NATO's twenty years in Afghanistan.
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On 5 October, speaking at an event hosted by the Brookings Institution and Georgetown University in Washington D.C., NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said: “The need for transatlantic unity is greater today than at any time since the end of the Cold War.”
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NATO scientists are building up a signature database of small UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) to help nations develop drone detection systems and tracking algorithms. At a training centre in France, the group collected data on various models of mini and small drones in an urban environment. UAVs can pose a security risk and cause major disruption, as was seen at Gatwick Airport in London in December 2018. The airport was shut down for three days following reports of drone sightings close to the runway. Hundreds of flights had to be cancelled.
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