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NATO Off the Wire
22 March 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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22 March 2007
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| NATO force changes Afghanistan tactics |
| BRUSSELS: The NATO force in Afghanistan is changing tactics to target individual Taliban leaders. |
| Published on 22 March 2007 - PakTribune.com - Pakistan |
21 March 2007
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| NATO Pleased with Croatia’s Progress |
| ohn Colston is satisfied with Croatia’s progress in preparations for membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. |
| Published on 21 March 2007 - Javno.hr - Zagreb,Croatia |
20 March 2007
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| NATO evacuates 600 stranded villagers after Afghan floods
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| KABUL, Afghanistan: NATO-led troops used helicopters to evacuate about 600 stranded villagers in southern Afghanistan after floods destroyed their homes, the alliance said. |
| Published on 20 March 2007 - International Herald Tribune - France |
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| NATO, Berlin mad at U.S. general |
| BRUSSELS, March 20 (UPI) -- Officials from the German government and NATO are unhappy about comments and actions by U.S. General Dan McNeill, ISAF's new commander in Afghanistan. |
| Published on 20 March 2007 - United Press International - USA |
18 March 2007
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| US Missile Plans Accelerate Defense Shield Debate at NATO |
| US plans to install part of a missile shield in Europe, despite Russian hostility, have accelerated debate at NATO about developing a similar system. |
| Published on 18 March 2007 - Vive Le Canada - Canada |
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| NATO commander discusses challenges in Afghanistan |
| In an interview to RFE/RL, Craddock said "I think the first thing that ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) is doing is telling the truth, and that may be a rare commodity. The fact is you will see reports of operations that ISAF has conducted that have resulted in the loss of noncombatant life, many of those are patently false, they are not true." |
| Published on 18 March 2007 - Online News Network |
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| Sevastopol holding unofficial referendum on language, NATO |
| An unofficial referendum on the Russian language, NATO and the Common Economic Space is underway in Sevastopol in the Crimea. |
| Published on 18 March 2007 - ITAR-TASS News Agency, Russia |
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| Taliban Attack on NATO Base Injuring 3 Soldiers, 1 Child Killed in Kandahar Suicide Blast |
| A suicide bomber targeting a Canadian military convoy killed a child and wounded a NATO occupation soldier and three other people Saturday in southern Afghanistan, officials said. |
| Published on 18 March 2007 - Al-Jazeerah.info |
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| NATO expansion-philosophical rather than technical question-Ivanov |
| The question on the role and place of NATO is likely philosophical rather than technical issue, claimed Secretary of the Russian Security Council Igor Ivanov. "We cannot regard the question on NATO expansion just as an independent technical question," he emphasized, speaking on Sunday at the assembly of the Council on Foreign and Defence Policy. |
| Published on 18 March 2007 - ITAR - TASS |
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| Police round up Karadzic's relatives |
| PODGORICA, Montenegro — Police rounded up and interrogated several relatives of Radovan Karadzic in the latest attempt to locate the top war crimes fugitive, his brother said Sunday. |
| Published on 18 March 2007 - Houston Chronicle |
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| General says NATO will continue attacks on Taliban insurgents |
| Forward Operating Base Diablo, Afghanistan | The top general in Afghanistan said Friday that NATO's latest offensive is the first of a "rolling series" of operations against Taliban insurgents, some of whom have been fleeing Western forces in the south. |
| Published on 18 March 2007 - Wilmington Star |
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| NATO expansion at odds with Russia's interests: top official |
| Russian Security Council chief Igor Ivanov on Sunday questioned NATO's capability to counter emerging security threats, and said its enlargement runs counter to the interests of Russia and the states about to join the alliance. |
| Published on 18 March 2007 - People's Daily Online - China |
17 March 2007
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| Poland weighing German suggestion to discuss U.S. missile defense plans within NATO |
| WARSAW, Poland: Poland's National Security Council will consider German Chancellor Angela Merkel's suggestion that NATO is the proper forum to discuss U.S. plans for a missile defense system based in eastern Europe, President Lech Kaczynski said Saturday. |
| Published on 17 March 2007 - International Herald Tribune |
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| Taliban fleeing NATO forces, with more offensives expected |
| KABUL: Taliban militants are fleeing NATO-led forces in southern Afghanistan and the top US General in the country vowed no let up in operations to root out the insurgents in the months to come. |
| Published on 17 March 2007 - Pakistan News Service |
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| Taliban fleeing NATO forces, more offensives coming, top U.S. general says |
| FORWARD OPERATING BASE DIABLO, Afghanistan (AP) - The top NATO general in Afghanistan said Friday the alliance's latest offensive is the first of a "rolling series" of operations against Taliban insurgents, some of whom have been fleeing western forces in the south. |
| Published on 17 March 2007 - 570news.com |
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| Taliban Attack on NATO Military Convoy in Afghanistan Kills Child |
| KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, March 17 (Reuters) — One Afghan child was killed and two children seriously wounded on Saturday when the Taliban exploded a vehicle by the side of a road as a NATO military convoy passed, officials said. |
| Published on 17 March 2007 - The New York Times, NY, USA |
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| Russia should recognize Abkhazia before Georgia joins NATO - Abkhaz official |
| MOSCOW. March 17 (Interfax) - Russia should be more determined in recognizing Abkhazia as an independent state before the South Caucasus nations joined NATO, Abkhaz Foreign Minister Sergei Shamba said. |
| Published on 17 March 2007 - Interfax, Russia |
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| 3 NATO soldiers injured in mortar attack in Afghan base |
| A mortar attack wounded three soldiers of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force ( ISAF) at a military base in southern Afghanistan, an ISAF spokeswoman told Xinhua on Saturday. |
| Published on 17 March 2007 - People's Daily Online, China |
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| NATO chief to visit Pakistan |
| The Secretary-General of NATO Jaap de Hoop Scheffer is expected to visit Islamabad before this summer for talks with Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf on Afghanistan. |
| Published on 17 March 2007 - New Europe |
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| ‘US missile scheme hurts ties with Russia’ |
| Gorki-10 (Russia), March 17: The US plan to base missiles in central Europe harms trust between NATO and Russia and may create confrontation where none exists, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned here Saturday. |
| Published on 17 March 2007 - Zee News |
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| Croatia In NATO Soon? |
| On Friday, the American Senate accepted a resolution with which it supports the further expansion of NATO. |
| Published on 17 March 2007 - Javno.com |
16 March 2007
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| US Says Missile Shield Protects EU, Open to NATO Framework |
| The top US missile defense official sought to ease European fears about a missile shield that Washington plans to deploy in two EU nations. He also said the US is open to making the shield available to NATO. |
| Published on 16 March 2007 - Deutsche Welle, Germany |
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| Kazakh, British scientists win NATO Science Prize |
| Scientists from Kazakhstan and Britain have been named for the NATO Science Partnership Prize for 2007, said a NATO press release on Friday. |
| Published on 16 March 2007 - People's Daily Online, China |
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| Robert Simmons: "NATO concerned over Iran's nuclear program" |
| NATO has no military plans on Iran. NATO Secretary-General's Special Representative for the South Caucasus and Central Asia, Robert Simmons told journalists while visiting Baku. |
| Published on 16 March 2007 - Today.az, Azerbaijan |
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| Merkel, in Poland, Stresses NATO Missile-Shield Role |
| March 16 (Bloomberg) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel, beginning a two-day visit to Poland today, will stress that talks on erecting a U.S. missile-defense shield in Europe should be conducted through NATO, a government spokesman said. |
| Published on 16 March 2007 - Bloomberg.com |
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| NATO chief pledges support to Montenegro's Euro-Atlantic integration |
| NATO Secretary General Jaap De Hoop Scheffer said on Friday that the alliance would provide full support to Montenegro in its military reform and the Euro-Atlantic integration process, said reports reaching here from the Montenegrin capital Podgorica. |
| Published on 16 March 2007 - People's Daily Online, China |
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| US Senate Calls for Further NATO Expansion |
| The U.S. Senate has endorsed further NATO enlargement. |
| Published on 16 March 2007 - VOA news |
15 March 2007
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| U.S. says open to NATO solution for missile shield |
| BERLIN (Reuters) - The United States is open to suggestions by some Europeans that a missile shield it plans to deploy in Poland and the Czech Republic be made available to NATO, the top U.S. missile defense official said on Thursday. |
| Published on 15 March 2007 - The Washington Post, USA |
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| Planned US bases to protect only part of Europe, says Czech NATO envoy |
| Brussels, March 14 (CTK) - The U.S. missile shield whose parts are to be stationed in the Czech Republic and Poland will protect Italy and Spain, but not Greece and Turkey, Czech ambassador to NATO Stefan Fuele told French news agency AFP today. |
| Published on 15 March 2007 - Prague Daily Monitor, Czech Republic |
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| NATO sends 600 soldiers to Kosovo for rehearsal |
| (REUTERS) A 600-strong German battalion assigned to NATO will deploy to Kosovo by the end of this week to take part in regular operational exercises, KFOR announced on Wednesday (March 14th). |
| Published on 15 March 2007 - Southeast European Times |
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| Georgian Parliament Backs NATO Membership |
| The Georgian Parliament passed a declaration supporting Georgia’s aspirations for NATO membership with 160 votes to 0 on March 13, Civil Georgia web-site reports. |
| Published on 15 March 2007 - MOSNEWS, Russia |
14 March 2007
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| NATO troops continue to target Taliban leaders in Afghanistan |
| The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) would continue to attack Taliban leaders in Afghanistan, an ISAF spokesman told a press conference on Wednesday. |
| Published on 14 March 2007 - People Daily Online, China |
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| NATO experts' report on Armenia awaits debate in Brussels early April |
| YEREVAN (YERKIR) - NATO’s decision to launch the Individual Partnership Action Plan is conditioned by progress in the Armenia-NATO relations during the recent several years, Armenia's Ambassador to NATO Samvel Mkrtchyan told a news conference in Yerevan, PanARMENIAN.Net reported. The interim report on Armenia organized by NATO experts will be presumably considered in Brussels in early April, according to him. |
| Published on 14 March 2007 - Yerkir, Armenia |
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| EU report reveals plans for Kosovo |
| BRUSSELS (AP) -- The European Union is getting ready to enforce a UN plan that gives supervised statehood to Kosovo, even though Serbia has rejected giving so much autonomy to its breakaway province. |
| Published on 14 March 2007 - Tehran Times |
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| Turkey's position on US missile defense program |
| Turkey does not share the NATO secretary-general's concerns that the NATO alliance risks being split between those countries that would be covered by the U.S. proposed missile defense program and those that would be left exposed to missile threats from rouge states. |
| Published on 14 March 2007 - Turkish Daily News. Istanbul, Turkey |
13 March 2007
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| NATO stepping up talks on missile defense |
| BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) — NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer is convinced that there is a threat of a missile attack on Europe and is seeking to ensure that allied nations are prepared to defend against it, his spokesman said Monday. |
| Published on 13 March 2007 - Canton Rep, Ohio, USA |
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| Poll: Czech support for NATO waning 8 years after joining |
| The Czech Republic joined NATO eight years ago this week, in March 1999. Joining the organisation was one of the biggest steps taken by the country in the decade after the fall of communism. But eight years later, support for NATO membership seems to be waning in the Czech Republic. |
| Published on 13 March 2007 - Radio Praha, Prague, Czech Republic |
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| UKRAINE: Flirting with NATO Under Russian Eyes
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| BUDAPEST, Mar 13 (IPS) - Western-leaning elites in this nominally neutral country would like to see Ukraine join the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) despite strong popular opposition. |
| Published on 13 March 2007 - Inter Press Service News Agency |
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| Ukraine to join Lithuania-led international NATO group in Afghanistan |
| VILNIUS, March 13 (Itar-Tass) - Ukraine will join the Lithuania-led international NATO group engaged in post-war reconstruction in Afghanistan's Ghor province. Lithuanian Defense Minister Juozas Olekas and his Ukrainian counterpart Anatoly Gritsenko signed a corresponding agreement in Vilnius on Tuesday. |
| Published on 13 March 2007 - ITAR-TASS News Agency, Russia |
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