NATO chief insists no rush to exits in Afghanistan
Sunday, May 20, 2012 – CHICAGO — The United States and NATO leaders are insisting the Afghanistan fighting coalition will remain whole despite France’s plans to yank combat troops out early, but leaders weary of plummeting public support for the war are using an alliance summit Sunday to show they want to move quickly away from the front lines.
“There will be no rush for the exits,” NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Sunday...Read Full Story
This week, NATO and the G-8 summit came and went without participating nations agree on a way to handle the insurgency in Syria, but is now reported that the U.S. may already be taking matters into clean hands.Military sources spoke on Israel Debka news agency that the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama has signed an agreement with foreign intelligence is to equip the Syrian rebels modern anti-tank missiles. After 14 months of ongoing battles between the country's leader, Bashar al...Read Full Story
NATO chief insists no rush to exits in Afghanistan
Sunday, May 20, 2012 – CHICAGO — The United States and NATO leaders are insisting the Afghanistan fighting coalition will remain whole despite France’s plans to yank combat troops out early, but leaders weary of plummeting public support for the war are using an alliance summit Sunday to show they want to move quickly away from the front lines.
“There will be no rush for the exits,” NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Sunday...Read Full Story
First Lady Michelle Obama (R) greets Valerie Trierweiler, companion of France's President Francois Hollande, before a tour of the Gary Comer Youth Center in Chicago May 20, 2012.
*Michelle Obama escorted five other first ladies around her South Side Chicago stomping grounds on Sunday while they were in town for the NATO summit.
The women toured the Gary Komer Youth Center, which features a gymnasium, dance studio and a theater, reports the Associated Press. The center provides tutoring...Read Full Story
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With friction over the supply routes clouding the Pakistan-NATO ties, the leader of the military alliance has said he wants positive engagement with Islamabad for achieving the goal of long-term peace and stability in Afghanistan.
Washington, May 22
With friction over the supply routes clouding the Pakistan-NATO ties, the leader of the military alliance has said he wants positive engagement with Islamabad for achieving the goal of long-term peace and stability in...Read Full Story
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen remarked on how much he enjoyed a morning jog along the Lake Michigan shoreline. (If he could only see Traverse City, he might give up his Danish citizenship.) Aside from world leaders and senior officials ...
The NATO summit that went off relatively smoothly in Chicago last weekend had some spillover into Springfield, as the alliance’s secretary general, ANDERS FOGH RASMUSSEN, paid a quiet visit to the capital city. Rasmussen went to the Executive Mansion to see Gov.
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen addressed the Chicago Young Atlanticist Summit May 19, which ran parallel with the NATO Summit. Organized by the United States Atlantic Council and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, the ...
At the summit, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen stated he was "concerned" about the situation in Syria, but reiterated that the Alliance "has no intention to intervene in Syria." "The best way to go forward in that country is a peace plan ...
But, Anders Fogh Rasmussen told the reporter, we hope for Russian cooperation. NATO's fairly turgid Deterrence and Defense Posture Review was released during the Chicago summit. However, it did say, pretty clearly, that Russia had nothing to worry about.