By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES NATO Defence Ministers agreed on next steps to take in the fight against the Coronavirus at virtual meeting Wednesday of the North Atlantic Council in Brussels. “COVID-19 represents an unprecedented challenge to our nations,” NATO Secretary General
DIPLOMATIC TIMES BRUSSELS – Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg welcomed His Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan to NATO Headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday (14 January 2020) for talks about the Alliance’s strong partnership with Jordan and the current situation in the Middle East.
By Gary Raynaldo / DIPLOMATIC TIMES NATO and the Boeing Company signed a $1 billion contract in Brussels Wednesday to modernise the military Alliance’s fleet of AWACS aircraft. The historic aviation deal was inked at Melsbroek Airport in Brussels to mark a major
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES While NATO has not stated it officially, the Alliance’s largest military exercise since the Cold War currently being conducted in Norway is to send a message to Russia. NATO’s Operation Trident Juncture 18 kicked off last week with 50,000 participants
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Clare Hutchinson, NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for Women, Peace and Security, said sustainable peace will not be achieved without women’s empowerment and participation. Hutchinson made the remarks in UN Security Council debate on women’s empowerment in New York on
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES NATO Deputy Secretary General Rose Gottemoeller reminded European Allies that without the right resources, the military alliance “cannot guarantee our security.” Gottemoeller laid out the importance of defence spending at a time of unprecedented security challenges in a
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES NATO is set to show the world the military alliance is ready to respond to any threat from any direction, particularly Russia, by conducting the largest exercises in decades. UK troops landed at Rotterdam in The Netherlands this week