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NATO Off the Wire
20 February 2007
A look at news and commentary regarding NATO
on the Web
The spokesman's perspective:
Continuing our new series of video commentary, NATO Spokesman James Appathurai gives his personal perspective on recent articles discussing NATO. He invites you to write in with your own comments and opinions, which could be featured in the next installment.
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8 March 2007
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| Russia fears NATO more than terrorism |
| RUSSIA is to replace its military doctrine with a more hawkish version that boldly identifies NATO and the West as its greatest danger. |
| Published on 8 March 2007 - The Sydney Morning Hearld, Australia |
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| NATO not part of discussions on US missile system in Central Europe NATO-Missile system |
| The North Atlantic Treaty Organization said it is not part of the bilateral discussions between the US and the Czech Republic to build a radar installation and between the US and Poland to build a missile base in these countries. |
| Published on 8 March 2007 - IRNA (Islamic Republic News Agency) |
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| NATO secretary general calls arrest of Serbian war-crime fugitives 'extremely important' |
| (AP) BELGRADE, Serbia: The arrest of Gen. Ratko Mladic and other war crimes fugitives remains "extremely important" for NATO, the alliance's secretary general told Serbia's leaders Thursday. |
| Published on 8 March 2007 - International Herald Tribune, Europe |
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| NATO, Japan agree on closer cooperation in Afghanistan |
| A high-level NATO delegation and the Japanese authorities have agreed on closer cooperation in Afghanistan, said NATO's spokesman on Wednesday. The NATO delegation, led by Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy, Martin Erdmann, is of the highest level ever to Japan, said James Appathurai. |
| Published on 8 March 2007 - People’s Daily Online, China |
7 March 2007
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| NATO targets Taliban in southern Afghanistan |
| (AP) KABUL, Afghanistan - NATO-led troops launched an offensive against Taliban militants in a southern Afghan province where hundreds of militant fighters have massed in recent months. One NATO soldier was killed yesterday in combat in the south. |
| Published on 7 March 2007 - Boston Herald.com, MA, USA |
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| Burqa-clad Taliban leader caught as NATO attacks |
| KABUL, March 7 (Reuters) - Afghan soldiers have captured a Taliban leader who tried to flee a security operation in the south dressed in a burqa, NATO said on Wednesday. |
| Published on 7 March 2007 - Reuters |
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| NATO chief tries to soothe Russia on BMD |
| BRUSSELS (UPI) -- The head of the NATO alliance this week sought to reassure Russia that new ballistic missile defense bases were not aimed against it. |
| Published on 7 March 2007 - United Press International |
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| NATO forces launch major drive against Afghan militants |
| Kabul, Afghanistan -- In its largest offensive since taking command of southern Afghanistan last year, NATO mounted an attack against hundreds of Taliban and foreign insurgents in Helmand province on Tuesday, military officials said. |
| Published on 7 March 2007 - San Francisco Chronicle, California, USA |
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| Blair urges Nato partners to pull their weight |
| Tony Blair today urged Britain’s Nato partners to contribute more troops to Afghanistan as he admitted no other country had yet come forward to provide an extra battle group needed to support British forces fighting the Taliban. |
| Published on 7 March 2007 - The Telegraph, London, United Kingdom |
6 March 2007
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| Merkel: NATO should defuse missile tension |
| MOSCOW, March 6 (UPI) -- German Chancellor and rotating EU President Angela Merkel has called on NATO to defuse growing Russian tension about U.S. missile shields in Europe. |
| Published on 6 March 2007 - United Press International (UPI) |
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| NATO chief confident in alliance consensus on missile defense |
| NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer on Monday expressed confidence that the alliance members will reach consensus on whether to develop a missile defense system. |
| Published on 6 March 2007 - People’s Daily Online, (report by Xinhua) , China
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| NATO launches offensive against Taliban in southern Afghanistan |
| (AP) KABUL, Afghanistan - NATO-led troops launched an offensive against Taliban militants in a southern Afghan province where hundreds of militant fighters have massed in recent months. One NATO soldier was killed Tuesday in combat in the south. |
| Published on 6 March 2007 - Boston Hearld.com., MA, USA |
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| NATO begins Afghan spring offensive |
| KABUL, March 6 (Reuters) - NATO began its spring offensive against the Taliban on Tuesday, launching its biggest offensive since the 2001 war targeting the rebels and drug lords. |
| Published on 6 March 2007 - Reuters
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| NATO launches new Afghan offensive |
| KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (CNN) -- NATO-led security forces have launched a major offensive against the Taliban and drug traffickers in southern Afghanistan, the military alliance's regional commander said in a statement on Tuesday. |
| Published on 6 March 2007 - CNN |
5 March 2007
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| Walker's World: NATO's two faces |
| NEW DELHI, (UPI) -- The NATO alliance now has two faces. The European face was on display in Wiesbaden, Germany, over the weekend when German Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung suggested that the new American missile defense system that is planned for deployment in Poland and the Czech Republic should be incorporated into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as a whole. |
| Published on 5 March 2007 - United Press International (UPI)
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| U.S. missile plan triggers NATO tensions |
| BRUSSELS, (Reuters) - A U.S. plan to base a missile defence system in eastern Europe triggered friction among NATO allies on Monday as the Czech Republic rejected criticism of talks with Washington over its possible participation. |
| Published on 5 March 2007 - Reuters
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4 March 2007
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| Nato allies 'must help pay costs' |
| The UK's Nato allies must share the financial cost of war in Afghanistan even if they have not sent troops, the shadow defence secretary has said. |
| Published on 4 March 2007 - BBC News |
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| NATO 1,000 troops short in Afghanistan |
| HELP WANTED: US General John Craddock said in addition to increasing its forces, NATO could not succeed without cooperation between Pakistan and Afghanistan |
| Published on 4 March 2007 - Taipei Times |
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| NATO remains missing in action |
| Here's NATO? Not in Afghanistan in large enough numbers, that's for sure. Britain's Tony Blair has committed 1,400 more troops to the war, but that leaves the Atlantic alliance short of the force the brass would like — and it leaves the bulk of the fighting to Britain, the United States, Canada and Holland, most other NATO nations remaining essentially AWOL. |
| Published on 4 March 2007 - The Times Argus, Barre Montpelier, Vermont, USA |
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| Protecting national and NATO interests among Bulgaria’s defence priorities |
| Bulgaria’s NATO representatives see as their task to protect both national and alliance interests, head of the strategic planning department of the national army headquarters Petar Bozhilov said. |
| Published on 4 March 2007 - Sofia Echo.com, Sofia. Bulgaria |
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| NATO's U.S. forces in Kosovo may lose benefits of combat status |
| Top Defense Department officials are considering a proposal to downgrade the combat status of U.S. forces participating in the NATO peacekeeping mission in Kosovo, a decision that could cause the 1,500 U.S. soldiers currently deployed there to lose hundreds or even thousands of dollars each month in tax benefits and combat pay. |
| Published on 4 March 2007 - San Francisco Chronicle, USA |
3 March 2007
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| EU wants US anti-missile defence integrated in NATO |
| German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung on March 2 said US plans for a European-based anti-missile defence system should become part of a wider NATO framework, a move which could ease current Russia’s security concerns over the initiative. |
| Published on 3 March 2007 - New Europe, The European Weekly
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| Georgia Aims for NATO Membership |
| Georgia’s president says that even though Russia has recently “toned down the rhetoric,” his country will not deviate from its goal of tighter relations with NATO and the European Union. |
| Published on 3 March 2007 - DefenseNews.com, Springfield, Virginia, USA
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2 March 2007
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| Fight urged against opium, corruption in Afghanistan |
| (MCN) WASHINGTON - Pakistan arrested a senior Taliban leader for the first time this week, but success in Afghanistan depends less on defeating the militant Islamist group than it does on curbing the country's growing opium trade and cleaning up corrupt courts and police, a former NATO commander told a Senate committee on Thursday. |
| Published on 2 March 2007 - The Mercury News, San Jose, California, USA
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1 March 2007
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| NATO approval not needed for missile shield says U.S. |
| BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The United States vowed on Thursday to press ahead with a plan for a missile defense shield in eastern Europe to guard against attack from Iran, with or without the approval of NATO allies. |
| Published on 1 March 2007 - Reuters, Brussels, Belgium |
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| NATO states have no definite stance yet on possible Czech US base |
| Brussels, March 1 (CTK) -Individual NATO member countries have not yet formed definite stances on the possible stationing of parts of the U.S. missile defence shield in the Czech Republic and Poland, Czech deputies said after meeting NATO representatives today. |
| Published on 1 March 2007 - Prague Daily Monitor/CTK , Czech Republic
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