Farewell interview
with
Lord Robertson,
NATO Secretary General
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In this farewell video interview, NATO Secretary
General Lord Robertson talks about his four years in office, the challenges
he faced, the objectives and goals he had in mind when he took up office,
the future of NATO, and the advice he would pass on to his successor,
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer of the Netherlands.
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| What was the most challenging for
you in your function as Secretary General? |
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| NATO has gone out of area, to Afghanistan.
Will the next step
be to engage in pre-emptive operations taking the Alliance
beyond what is stipulated in the North Atlantic Treaty, that
is to say
a purely defensive organisation? |
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| When you arrived at NATO, you no
doubt had expectations and objectives in mind. Could you tell us
what they were and how
they
evolved
in
your
time as Secretary General? |
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| To what extent do you think
the effort to improve NATO's operational capabilities can be pursued
and achieved in the near future? |
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| If you had one piece of
advice to give to your successor Mr. Jaap de Hoop Scheffer,
what would it be? |
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| You are now moving to quite a different
environment in the new year, is there anything special that you have
learnt or experienced at NATO that will help in your
job at Cable and Wireless and in possible other future positions? |
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| And closing on a personal note,
from the four years, what moment will you remember most? |
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Transcript of
the interview - Audio version: .MP3/4309Kb
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