NATO invites Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia
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NATO leaders on Wednesday invited their old enemy Serbia &#151; along with Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina &#151; to join a program considered a first step toward eventual membership in the alliance.
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NATO forces will deploy to Bosnia and Herzegovina and to Kosovo to take part in an operational rehearsal to ensure NATO troops and the Reserve Forces Headquarters are prepared to respond to a crisis in the ...
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Nato chiefs are to hold further meetings to decide who will supply extra troops and equipment for Afghanistan.
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NATO defense ministers agreed Thursday on an expansion of the alliance's peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan and will send troops into the western parts of the country, the alliance's top official said.
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"Kosovo directly affects the security and stability of our region"  Surrounded by photographers, NATO's Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, center right, talks to Macedonian Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki, center left, during an informal dinner for ministers, in the ... via The Macon Telegraph
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NATO is prepared for the  worst-case scenario of regional violence in the event Serbs in  north Kosovo revolt over an imminent decision on the fate of  the province, the NATO commander there said on Tuesday.
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NICE, France -- Several NATO nations, encouraged by the Jan. 30 elections in Iraq, are offering to train Iraqi security forces in their own countries, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said yesterday.
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Foreign ministers and deputy foreign ministers from the Albania, Croatia, Macedonia and Serbia-Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina started a two-day meeting on Friday in Ohrid, south of Macedonia, China ...
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NATO criticized Balkan countries on Thursday for not helping to bring indicted war criminals to justice and called on them to live up to their international obligations.
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BRUSSELS -- More than a week after NATO's top leaders publicly demanded reinforcements for their embattled mission in southern Afghanistan, only one member of the 26-nation alliance has offered more troops, raising questions about NATO's largest military operation ever outside of Europe and the goal...
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BRUSSELS (BBC News) - The EU expects Serbia, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Macedonia and Albania to have signed initial deals paving the way for eventual entry into the bloc by the end of 2008, EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn said in Brussels on Tuesday. "I expect that in 2008 conditions will be fulfilled and thus we will be able to complete Stabilisation and Association Agreements (SAA) with all countries in the region," EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn said in Brussels on Tuesday. He praised Serbia in particular for turning its back on its nationalist past by supporting the work of the UN's war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - NATO is prepared for the worst-case scenario of regional violence in the event Serbs in north Kosovo revolt over an imminent decision on the fate of the province, the NATO commander there said on Tuesday.
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NOORDWIJK, Netherlands -- The mounting tension on Turkey's border with Iraq and U.S. demands for European allies to do more in Afghanistan are expected to dominate a meeting of NATO defense ministers opening Wednesday in the Netherlands.
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is checking up on promises for continued support in the war in Afghanistan by checking in with NATO defense leaders in southeastern Europe.
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NATO dispatched extra troops to Kosovo for an election today seen by majority ethnic Albanians as a key step toward turning their UN-ruled protectorate into an independent nation.
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PORTOROZ, Slovenia  - NATO nations agreed on   Thursday to assume command of peacekeeping across all of   insurgency-hit Afghanistan in the next few weeks, a NATO   spokesman said.
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President Bush plans to propose offering five countries an expanded relationship with NATO at a summit of the alliance next week in Riga, Latvia, the State Department said Tuesday.