NATO secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg will serve for two more years beyond his initial mandate as the head of the world’s biggest military alliance. Brussels-based NATO headquarters initiated a statement on Tuesday that its 29 nations decided to prolong the former Norwegian prime minister’s term until September 30 2020. Honoured and grateful that the 29 Allies…
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European Defence Industry Summit
The participants of the European Defence Industry Summit engaged in an intense debate over the perspectives and challenges in internal and external dimension within a new framework of activation of Lisbon Treaty clause on Common Defence. The European defence industries have already presented more than 50 projects for approval of the EU bodies and implementation…
Mogherini claims “historic day” for EU defence
“It is going to be quite a historic day today for European defence. Today, after so many years, the provision of the Lisbon Treaty establishing the possibility for the European Union Member States to have a Permanent Structured Cooperation on defence is going to be initiated” – said EU top diplomat upon her arrival at…
EU building up a new defence structure
At the EU Summit the EU27 leaders reiterated their commitment to launch a new EU defence co-operation structure – Permanent structured co-operation (PESCO) – early next year. It will assemble member-state resources to conduct specific operations and provide funding for joint research and procurement. #EUDefence #EUCO welcomed progress made by Member States in preparing Permanent…
Nobel Prize for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). “The organization is receiving the award for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition…
Russia blames US “hypocrisy” for Gen.Asapov death in Syria
The death of Russian General Valery Asapov in Syria, who was killed in a mortar shelling attack unleashed by terrorists, comes as a direct result of Washington’s two-faced policy in Syria, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told reporters on Monday. “The tragedy that we witnessed, the death of a Russian commander, is the price…
Serbia-NATO: cautious cooperation
Aleksandar Mitic, OPINION Serbia’s Defense Minister Aleksandar Vulin is meeting in Brussels with the NATO Deputy Secretary General Rose Gottemoeller to discuss further cooperation within the Partnership for Peace (PfP) programme but his intention will certainly be to cement Belgrade’s commitment to military neutrality which excludes NATO membership. Serbia is implementing the Individual Partnership Action…
In self-defence US and allies might destroy North Korea “rogue regime”
14 minutes into his speech at the United Nations the US President Donald Trump mentions North Korea, speaking about the death of American student Otto Warmbier after being detained by the North Korean government. It was a great honor to have spoken before the countries of the world at the United Nations.#USAatUNGA🇺🇸#UNGAhttps://t.co/1maJwRGa3d pic.twitter.com/6Hu3AeUp58 — Donald…
Ukraine defence to receive $500 millions from USA
The US Senate passed roughly $700 billion for National Defense, foreseeing budget of $500 million to support Ukraine, President Petro Poroshenko said. “The US Senate approved the draft, providing for the allocation of $500 million to support Ukraine in the field of security and defense,” Poroshenko wrote on his official Twitter page. pic.twitter.com/wKcH78A2Ry — Петро Порошенко…
Zapad-2017 Russian military drills
he Zapad-2017 (or West 2017) joint Russian-Belarusian military drills have kicked off in the two countries, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement. “Heads of military administrative bodies and commanders of units involved in the drills have received instructions from the General Staff of the Union State concerning their training tasks,” the statement reads….
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