* Jamie Shea ( born 1953 ) — NATO spokesman

On 14 July 2011, according to a spokesman for the provincial government, NATO ground troops killed 6 civilians in a night raid of the village of Toora Worai, in an area known as Matoon, about seven kilometres from the Khost provincial capital of Khost city.

In a public statement made by NATO spokesman Jamie Shea on 31 May 1999, he declared the Varvarin bridge a legitimate military target.

In 1994, they released the album NATO, which commented on the current political events in Eastern Europe, former Yugoslavia and the actions of the NATO pact, filtered through their vision of techno and pop.

`` NATO cannot live on fear alone.

Fifty lantern slide teaching sets on the subject of `` Emergency War Surgery ( NATO ) '' were assembled and distributed to the Medical Military Services of foreign Governments associated with NATO and South-East Asia Treaty Organization.

Canada alone has been somewhat out of step with the Oslo attempt to get all the allied cars back on the track behind the NATO locomotive.

He was assassinated, probably at the instigation of al-Qaeda, in a suicide bombing on September 9, 2001, just two days before the September 11 attacks that finally caused the US and NATO to intervene in Afghanistan, allying themselves with Massoud's forces.

In 1995, U. S. and NATO aircraft attacked Bosnian Serb targets to halt attacks on U. N. safe zones and to pressure them into a peace accord.

Military collaboration began during World War II and continued throughout the Cold War on both a bilateral basis through NORAD and through multilateral participation in NATO.

Croatian foreign policy has focused on greater Euro-Atlantic integration, mainly entering the European Union and NATO.

After the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, the Czech Republic is completing a major reorganisation and reduction of the armed forces, which intensified after the Czech Republic joined NATO on 12 March 1999.

As a result, the focus on more highly trained soldiers equipped with, for example, 7. 62 mm NATO firing rifles, such as the U. S. Marine Corps Designated Marksman Rifle variant of the M14, has increased somewhat.

Finland did not attempt to join NATO, even though post-Soviet countries on the Baltic Sea and elsewhere joined.

On November 27 it was announced that a NATO membership referendum and election date referendum will also be held on the election day together with presidential elections.

In July 1997, on the sidelines of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) summit in Madrid, Greek and Turkish leaders reached agreement on six principles to govern their bilateral relations.

Among the important political issues at the time was the deployment of Pershing II IRBMs and nuclear-tipped cruise missiles by the U. S. and NATO on West German soil, generating strong opposition in the general population that found an outlet in mass demonstrations.

Western powers chose to decline on this proposal, due to belief that Germany should be able to join NATO and that such a negotiation with the Soviet Union would be seen as a capitulation.

Supported by NATO, Karzai called on the group's leadership to take part in a loya jirga meeting to initiate peace talks.

Italy has worked closely with the United States and others on such issues as NATO and UN operations as well as with assistance to Russia and the other CIS nations, Middle East peace process, multilateral talks, Somalia and Mozambique peacekeeping, and combating drug trafficking, trafficking in women and children, and terrorism.

The country was admitted to the United Nations in 1955 and is a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ), the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade / World Trade Organization ( GATT / WTO ), the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ( OSCE ), and the Council of Europe.

The Italian government seeks to obtain consensus with other European countries on various defense and security issues within the EU as well as NATO.

In 1959, NATO decided to build the LORAN-C network in the Atlantic Ocean, and one of the transmitters had to be on Jan Mayen.

* 1961 – In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.

Latvia became a member state of NATO on March 29, 2004.

Lithuania joined NATO on March 29, 2004 and joined the EU on May 1, 2004.

In April 2008, Bucharest hosted the NATO summit.

On 12 March 1999, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland joined NATO ; Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, and Slovakia joined in March 2004 ; Croatia and Albania joined on 1 April 2009.

* Establishment of the defence alliance NATO April 4, 1949.

* April 20 – NATO debates modernising short range missiles ; although the U. S. and U. K. are in favour, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl obtains a concession deferring a decision.

The US assistant secretary of state for European affairs told delegates at a NATO conference in Croatia that he hoped that Kosovo's future could be resolved in the months leading up to the alliance's next summit meeting in Romania in April of that year.

In April 1999, Portugal participated in the NATO bombing of Serbia from the Aviano air base in Italy.

From April 1956 to October 1957 the 312th TFW rotated tactical squadrons to either Châteauroux-Déols Air Base or Etain-Rouvres Air Base in France, for six month deployments to NATO.

Five B-1Bs from the 28th Bomb Wing joined NATO forces in Operation Allied Force and began striking military targets in Kosovo on April 1, 1999.

Following nearly five years of combat in Vietnam, the 1st Infantry Division returned to Fort Riley in April 1970 and assumed the NATO commitment.

NATO ( North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ) began preparations for a military defence of Western Europe by incorporating most West European nations into a defence pact against Soviet aggression in April 1951.

On 21 April 1961, he succeeded Paul-Henri Spaak, to become the third Secretary General of NATO.

** 15 April 1958 – 31 March 1962 — at the same time, NATO Commander of Land Forces in Schleswig-Holstein ( COMLAND-SCHLESWIG )

This Tašmajdan park memorial to the victims of the April 23, 1999 NATO bombing includes names, ages, and job descriptions of each person killed in the attack.

The NATO bombing of the Serb Radio and Television headquarters occurred on 23 April 1999, during the Kosovo War, when NATO destroyed the headquarters of Radio Television of Serbia ( RTS ) network in Belgrade.

At Barry George's first trial his defence barrister, Michael Mansfield QC, quoted from a National Criminal Intelligence Service report which stated that the Serbian warlord leader, Arkan, had ordered her assassination in retaliation for the NATO bombing of the Radio Television of Serbia headquarters on 23 April 1999, which had resulted in the deaths of several well-known Yugoslav TV presenters.

On 2 April 1993, NATO troops from Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Turkey, Germany, and Italy as well as the United States launched Operation Deny Flight, a no-fly zone for Serbian aircraft over Bosnia-Herzegovina.

On 5 April 2009, Rasmussen resigned to become Secretary General of NATO, leaving minister of finance and vice president of Venstre Lars Løkke Rasmussen to be the Prime Minister.

During the NATO bombing in 1999, Bačka Palanka was bombed by NATO only twice, on 2 and 27 April.

On 12 April 1999, during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia a bridge near Leskovac ( Grdelička klisura ) was destroyed by a NATO aircraft as a passenger train was crossing.

But Cairncross was at the Ministry of Supply in 1951 and NATO was established in April 1949.

SHAPE and all the other NATO installations, including NATO Headquarters and Allied Forces Central Europe ( AFCENT ), were informed that they must leave French territory by April 1967.