Jens Stoltenberg

Russia's provocative rhetoric and its dramatic expansion of flights by nuclear bombers are deeply troubling and dangerous, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said May 27.

"Russia's provocative rhetoric and its dramatic expansion of flights by nuclear bombers are deeply troubling and dangerous," NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said.

He spoke in Washington on Wednesday, a day after he was received by U.S. President Barack Obama, AFP reported.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has urged Russia to avoid holding snap military drills.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has, according to diplomatic sources, assured Greek officials that he did not consciously refer to the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) as ?Macedonia? in comments made before a meeting European Union foreign and defense ministers earlier this week.

Turkey has pledged to be a ?framework nation? for NATO?s Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF) by 2021. The force was originally designed to serve as a deterrent to Russian aggression after President Vladimir Putin annexed Crimea and supported separatists in eastern Ukraine. 

Minister of Foreign Affairs Bogdan Aurescu will attend, on Monday, in Brussels, the joint meeting of foreign affairs ministers and defence ministers of EU member states (FAC-Defence), followed by the Foreign Affairs Council meeting (FAC), the discussions occasioning opinions on the topic of the guiding document regarding the structure of the strategic revisal, a project that High Representative

Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias will be in Brussels on Monday, May 18, to attend a meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council (FAC).

NATO must cooperate more closely with partners and organisations like the EU to better address the security challenges east and south of its borders, the Alliance's chief Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday.

“We are the world, we are the children…” sang the Greek foreign minister with his counterparts from (some) NATO countries during an after-summit soiree in Antalya.
In fact, Greek FM Nikos Kotzias was the first to accept an invitation by his Turkish colleague Mevlut Cavusoglu to join him on stage.

NATO has welcomed Turkey?s offer to assume the responsibility of forming a spearhead unit as part of the alliance?s high readiness force in 2021
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