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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken encouraged Ankara to support Sweden in its bid to join NATO in a meeting with new Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Wednesday, a State Department spokesperson said.

He claims that the threat will not disappear because the Russians, regardless of the outcome of the special military operation, will have similar ambitions as now. NATO, Bauer says, expects Moscow to try to restore, and even strengthen, its military capabilities exhausted during the conflict.

The US Embassy is pleased to announce that the Congress of the United States has approved nearly million in additional Foreign Military Financing for Bulgaria.

Turkish foreign ministry "strongly condemned and rejected the unfounded" statements made by the German Chancellery against Turkey.

"Instead of making biased statements that do not comply with the spirit of the Alliance, we expect Germany to invite Greece to act in accordance with international treaties," Foreign Minister Spokesperson Tanju Bilgiç said.

Romania has fought side by side with the United States and other Allied forces in some of the world's toughest and deadliest theaters of operations, US Embassy in Bucharest chargé d'affaires ad-interim David Muniz affirmed on Monday in a message sent on the 10th anniversary of the signing of the Joint Declaration on The Strategic Partnership For The 21st Century Between The United States Of Ame

For the next year, he announced the first military exercise with China.
"We are cooperating with the NATO Alliance, but we are also cooperating with the CSTO (the Collective Security Treaty Organization made by former USSR countries) that do not ask us to give up part of the territory", Vulin said at the Serbian Parliament.

Greece's military base in Souda Bay, Crete, is an "essential hub" for NATO operations in the Mediterranean, combining world-class facilities with access to North Africa, the Commander of Allied Joint Force Command Naples and US Naval Forces Europe and Africa, US Navy Admiral James Foggo, told Kathimerini in an exclusive interview.

The US installed an air defense system named Patriot missiles in Lithuania. These missiles are the first to emerge in the Baltic region, where Russia has supremacy in the airspace. The defense system will be used during NATO military training "Tobruq Legacy-2017", which begins today and will continue until July 22, the Lithuanian Defense Ministry announced.