Thursday, October 21, 2010


NATO chief meets PM, foreign minister

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, currently on a visit to Athens, on Thursday had separate meetings with Prime Minister George Papandreou, Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas and Defence Minister Evangelos Venizelos within the framework of preparations for the alliance’s Summit Meeting in Lisbon on Nov. 19-20.

The upcoming Summit will adopt the alliance’s so-called New Strategic Concept and reach important decisions on future NATO actions in Afghanistan, the new command structure, the reform of the alliance’s structures, the so-called NATO partnership relations, missile defence and NATO’s cooperation with Russia and the EU.

After the meeting with the NATO head, Droutsas commented that the New Strategic Concept focuses on the modernization of the alliance to be able to fully meet current security challenges.”

He stated that “in general the plan meets our country’s demands mainly as regards the collective defence and the unanimity rule in decision making’. ,,,,,.............

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