Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg welcomed Finnish President Alexander Stubb to NATO Headquarters on Wednesday (10 April 2024), just days after Finland celebrated the first anniversary of its accession to the Alliance. The Secretary-General praised Helsinki’s many contributions to NATO, saying “Finland takes security and defence seriously”. “You have long made defenceContinue Reading
From 14 to 16 April 2024, the NATO Deputy Secretary General, Mr Mircea Geoană, will travel to Italy together with the Permanent Representatives to the North Atlantic Council. On Sunday 14 April, Mr Geoană will be in Turin, where he will have meetings, including with representatives of the Italian defenceContinue Reading
Foreign Ministers concluded two days of talks in Brussels on Thursday (4 April 2024) with a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council, and another meeting with Indo-Pacific partners and the European Union. Thursday marked 75 years since NATO’s founding. Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg welcomed the landmark, saying: “since 1949, we haveContinue Reading
The International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Justice is excited to bring to you its latest innovative training – Understanding and Responding to Hate Crimes. From 11 am-12:30 pm EST Friday, April 5, 2024, the Director of ICSVE, Dr. Anne SpeckhardContinue Reading
The Swedish flag was raised at NATO Headquarters for the first time on Monday (11 March 2024) in a ceremony to mark the country’s membership of the Alliance. Sweden became NATO’s 32nd Ally on 7 March upon depositing its instrument of accession to the North Atlantic Treaty with the UnitedContinue Reading
On 14 March 2023, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg released his Annual Report for 2023. The world faces greater challenges than it has for generations. Rising competition with authoritarian states including Russia and China, war in Europe and the Middle East, terrorism, cyber-attacks and the climate crisis. We need NATOContinue Reading
Raytheon and Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace, with support from the Norwegian Ministry of Defense (MoD) and Armed Forces, successfully completed a flight test of an updated AMRAAM®-Extended Range missile variant from a National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS). The successful flight test showcases the increased capabilities of the upgraded AMRAAM-ER.Continue Reading
Photo: Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide and Transport Minister Jon-Ivar Nygård together with the Ukrainian train drivers and maintenance personnel who will now receive training in the train type. Two years have passed since Russia’s full scale invation of Ukraine. As a part of Norway’s contribution to keep the economyContinue Reading
Czechia will host the next informal meeting of NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs, which will take place in Prague on 30-31 May 2024. “I am grateful to Czechia for hosting this informal meeting as we prepare for our Summit in Washington in July,” the Secretary General said. “This year marksContinue Reading
Upcoming in ICSVE’s Police Responses to Terrorism and Violent Extremism multi-media training series are six modules delivered virtually in two-hour sessions starting Monday, March 4th continuing daily through Friday March 8th starting at 11 am EST ending at 1 pm EST. ICSVE researchers have spent the last 20 years interviewingContinue Reading