The NATO alliance has grown at the summit to include two new members, Albania and Croatia.
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In part it is simply that he wants Europe to pull its weight in the Nato alliance.
Politically, it will solidify the NATO alliance if all its members can be brought within this defense system.
As Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, he helped the NATO alliance prepare for the new missions of our time.
Both countries are former Soviet satellites which now belong to the NATO alliance.
But the United States will be discussing steps to take with its allies in the NATO alliance and the European Union, they said.
He didn't really add a lot to his written statement from last night, beyond more praise for the Libyan people and the Nato alliance.
My sense is, is that all the parties in Europe, all the members of the NATO Alliance, want to have a strong, cooperative relationship with Russia.
Back then, the NATO alliance held firm in the face of an all-out Soviet campaign to block the basing of such weapons and destabilize the governments involved.
In the past Turkey tended to see itself as an eastern bulwark of the NATO alliance, whereas its Middle Eastern neighbours were viewed as threats to be contained.
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Since 1957 was the year of Sputnik, and since West Germany was a key member of the NATO alliance, this was not a good time to imply that there was no real Soviet threat to Western Europe.
In 1983, the issue was whether the NATO alliance would proceed with its agreed plan to deploy hundreds of Pershing II ballistic missiles and Ground-Launched Cruise Missiles in five Western European nations (collectively known as Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces or INF).
Russia has become a sort of guest member of the NATO alliance under an arrangement that will afford it considerable opportunity to influence that organization's deliberations but, in theory at least, no veto over decisions taken by the other, full- fledged members.
Several days later, at a press conference with Karzai, the newly appointed secretary general of the NATO military alliance, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, called for NATO countries to contribute more troops to support the Afghan government.
At Turkey's request, the NATO military alliance deployed several Patriot missile batteries to protect Turkish border cities from the threat of Syrian missile attacks.
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Some German troops from the NATO defence alliance's peacekeeping force in Afghanistan were also being sent.
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"The targeting policy of Nato and the alliance is absolutely clear, " he told the BBC.
The US-Nato alliance has had to deploy 150, 000 troops and the war has spawned the Pakistani Taliban, which the Pakistani army did not initially see as a danger but now sees as a major threat.
Russia is not a NATO member but works with the alliance via the NATO-Russia Council.
Russia's fears intensified when in 1999 the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland became the first former Soviet bloc states to join Nato, bringing the alliance's borders 400 miles closer to the Russian frontier.
The European Union and Nato alliance both pledged their support for Mr Allawi's government.
It has hopes of joining NATO but the Alliance has made no commitment on Georgian membership.
There are suggestions that the current NATO row is overblown and that the alliance's secretary-general, George Robertson, bears some responsibility for the fiasco.
Really what we did here today was simply to reconfirm what Prime Minister Tusk and I have discussed before, which is that NATO is the strongest alliance in history, primarily because it has a very simple principle, and that is we defend each other.
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By admitting the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland into the alliance several years ago, NATO gave these states that fundamental sense of security that comes from having concrete, formal ties to the West, which has been essential to the successes they have currently achieved.
If the Russians refuse to accept the phraseology NATO offers them before July 8, when the alliance is to gather in Madrid to issue invitations, some Europeans could get cold feet.
It is a testimony to the strength of the transatlantic alliance, a testimony to the effectiveness of NATO in creating stability and peace and prosperity, laying the groundwork for so much that has taken place over the last several years.
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After the parting shots by Robert Gates, the US Defence Secretary, predicting a "dim and dismal" future for Nato if the other members of the alliance do not do more to defend their interests, it is apparent that extending the "Libyan model" of intervention elsewhere in the troubled region would be extremely hard.
As two of the original founding members of NATO, we reaffirmed our commitment to the Atlantic Alliance.
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