NATO launches ties with Balkan countries
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NATO on Tuesday offered Serbia, Bosnia and Montenegro the first step on the road to membership of the alliance, and declared that other Balkan countries could expect firm invitations to join in 2008.
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Politics: 10 January 2005, Monday. The Intergovernmental Council for NATO Integration in Sofia is opening a session on Monday.
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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates will press NATO nations to provide military and police trainers for Afghanistan and explore Russia's offer to cooperate on missile defense at talks in Brussels on Thursday.
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NATO peacekeepers were being  sent to newly independent Kosovo's border with Serbia on  Tuesday to defend frontier posts under attack by Serbs who  oppose its secession.
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NATO and the Belgian government signed an agreement Wednesday to build new alliance headquarters adjacent to the current site, confirming Brussels as home of the military bloc.
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The EU signs visa deals with five Balkan states, making it cheaper and easier for their nationals to travel in Europe.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates will press NATO nations on Thursday to provide military and police trainers for Afghanistan and also plans to express interest in Russia's offer to cooperate on missile defense.
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POIANA BRASOV, Romania - Struggling to muster more troops for Afghanistan and to take on an expanded training mission in Iraq, NATO defense ministers will aim this week to advance reforms that would let the alliance mobilize faster for far-flung operations.    U.S...
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President Bush will visit NATO and the  European Union on Feb. 22 in a move to rebuild transatlantic  relations at the start of his second term, European NATO  diplomats said on Thursday.
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NICE, France -- NATO and the United States said yesterday that they would merge their separate missions in Afghanistan, giving NATO command of an operation that for the first time will combine counterterrorism and peacekeeping activities.
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Nato states meet in Belgium to discuss who will provide 2,500 reinforcements for its mission in Afghanistan.
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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.Comment
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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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The head of NATO will make an unprecedented visit to Algeria on Thursday, the opening move in a drive to beef up cooperation with the Arab world on counter-terrorism, defense reform and military training.
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said that Europeâs security is directly tied to NATOâs success in Afghanistan.
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NATO called for closer ties with Russia on Friday, a day after British warplanes scrambled to intercept Russian bombers on patrol, and said it was up to the Kremlin to spell out whether it had a "different view".
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The United States said it expected European countries to come up with offers of help in Iraq and Afghanistan at a NATO meeting on Thursday to discuss the alliance's role in the insurgency-hit countries.