"Ukraine–NATO Civic League NATO-Ukraine Civic League ""()"" is a Ukrainian non-governmental organization, partnership network of NGOs (associations of citizens) which support Euro-Atlantic/European course of Ukraine. NATO-Ukraine Civic League was established in as independent community organization. That day 26 NGOs joined the League. ""Ukrainian Integration into NATO: working together"", the First All-Ukraine NGO's Assembly of NATO-Ukraine Civic League in Kyiv, Ukraine took place on October 20, 2003. George Robertson, Secretary General of NATO taken part in Assembly. Since April 27, 2006, the Head of the Coordination Council of the NATO-Ukraine League is Serhiy Dzherdzh, Ph.D. League unites 48 NGOs today (2015)."
"the Liberal Democrats on 20 January 1999, departing on 9 August that year after 11 years in the role, and was succeeded by Charles Kennedy. In the Summer of 1999, there was speculation that he would be appointed the new Secretary General of NATO; however, his lack of governmental experience meant that doubts were raised about his suitability. The post was ultimately filled by Labour Defence Secretary George Robertson. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in 2000 and was created a Life Peer as Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon, ""of Norton-sub-Hamdon in the"
"Jens Stoltenberg Jens Stoltenberg (born 16 March 1959) is a Norwegian politician who has been serving as the 13th Secretary General of NATO since 2014. A member of the Labour Party, he was Prime Minister of Norway from 2000 to 2001 and from 2005 to 2013. In 2011, Stoltenberg received the United Nations Foundation's Champion of Global Change Award, chosen for his extraordinary effort toward meeting the Millennium Development Goals and bringing fresh ideas to global problems. Stoltenberg was born 16 March 1959 in Oslo, Norway, into the Stoltenberg family, whose name is derived from Stoltenberg in northern Germany. The"
"General Election, Robertson was appointed Secretary of State for Defence, a position he held until he resigned from the Cabinet in order to become Secretary General of NATO in 1999. He was appointed as NATO Secretary General after German defence minister Rudolf Scharping declined to be nominated for the position, and doubts were raised about the suitability of British politician and former Royal Marine Paddy Ashdown (at that time the outgoing leader of the Liberal Democrats) due to his never having held a position in government. In 1995, Robertson said that ""Devolution will kill Nationalism stone dead"" while he was"
"Dynko is a Graduate from Minsk State Linguistic University, and holds an MA in International Relations. Until August 2000, he also taught at his alma mater. From 2002, Dynko has been the Vice-President of the Belarusian PEN Center. Lord Robertson, born on the Isle of Islay in Scotland, was elected to the House of Commons in 1978. After the Labour Party won the elections in 1997, Prime Minister Blair appointed him as the Defence Secretary of the United Kingdom. In August 1999 he was selected as the tenth Secretary General of NATO, and the same month received a life peerage,"
"and is the current NATO Secretary-General. They also had two daughters, Camilla (born 1958), a medical researcher and administrator, and Nini (1963–2014) whose heroin addiction has been much publicized. Stoltenberg died on 13 July 2018 at the age of 87 after a short illness. Thorvald Stoltenberg Thorvald Stoltenberg (8 July 1931 – 13 July 2018) was a Norwegian politician. His ancestors stemmed from Tønsberg. He served as Minister of Defence (1979–81) and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1987–1989 and 1990–1993) in two Labour governments. From 1989 to 1990 served as Norwegian Ambassador to the UN. In 1990 he became the United"
"camera fashion, and released as a promotional video by the Labour party for the election campaign. It was later confirmed that 5 of the 14 customers were paid and recruited by the production company that produced the event for the Labour party. None, however, knew they would meet Stoltenberg. Jens Stoltenberg Jens Stoltenberg (born 16 March 1959) is a Norwegian politician who has been serving as the 13th Secretary General of NATO since 2014. A member of the Labour Party, he was Prime Minister of Norway from 2000 to 2001 and from 2005 to 2013. In 2011, Stoltenberg received the"
"1999 Hamilton South by-election On 4 August 1999, NATO announced that the Member of Parliament for the constituency of Hamilton South, in Scotland, the Rt. Hon. George Robertson, had been chosen as their new Secretary-General. This meant that Robertson was required to resign from his seat which he had won at the 1997 general election. The seat had fallen vacant in a Parliamentary recess, and the law does not permit a by-election to be called during a recess if the sitting member resigns by taking the Chiltern Hundreds. Robertson was elevated to the House of Lords as Baron Robertson of"
"Willy Claes Willem Werner Hubert ""Willy"" Claes (; born 24 November 1938) is a former Belgian politician who served as the eighth Secretary General of NATO, from 1994 to 1995. Claes was a member of the Flemish Socialist Party. Claes was born in Hasselt, Belgium. He graduated in political and diplomatic sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Willy Claes began his political career in the Hasselt city council. In 1968, he was elected to the national parliament. In 1972, he entered the cabinet for the first time as minister of education. Between 1973 and 1992, he was minister of"
"denied the rumors until a few days before the official announcement of his selection was made. After he was confirmed as the NATO Secretary General, Rasmussen announced that he would resign as Prime Minister of Denmark on 5 April 2009. Anders Fogh Rasmussen became the 12th NATO Secretary General on 1 August 2009, succeeding Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, who held the post from 2004 until 2009. The announcement was made on 4 April 2009, at the 2009 Strasbourg–Kehl summit in Strasbourg. During the final selection process only one country, Turkey, remained opposed to Rasmussen's candidacy, partly because of his handling"
"the Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. He became the 11th NATO Secretary General on 5 January 2004, succeeding Lord Robertson, who held the post from 1999 until 2003. The announcement was made on 22 September 2003. As Secretary General, De Hoop Scheffer urged NATO members to contribute more to NATO operations such as the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan. He ""informed a NATO conference that 'NATO troops have to guard pipelines that transport oil and gas that is directed for the West,' and more generally to protect sea routes used by tankers and other"
"NATO Secretary General on a wide range of strategic issues and on his communication strategy, including by drafting landmark speeches and articles for the Munich Security Conference and Foreign Affairs. Since 2015, Pothier has been a senior director at Rasmussen Global. He regularly features in the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, Politico Europe, Survival, Washington Post and Euronews. He has been a contributor to BBC World, France24, Al-Jazeera, CNBC Bl,oomberg, and has testified before the UK Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee. He writes on strategic affairs for London-based International Institute of Strategic Studies. Pothier co-founded the Transatlantic Commission on Election"
"Jamie Shea Jamie Patrick Shea (born 11 September 1953 in London) is Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. He received worldwide attention during the 1999 Kosovo War, when he served as the spokesperson for NATO. He described the civilians killed by the NATO bombing of Serbia in the effort to prevent the Serbs from retaining Kosovo as the ""cost to defeat an evil"". He received his B.A. (Hons.) in Modern History and French from the University of Sussex (1977) and his D.Phil. in Modern History from Lincoln College, Oxford (1981). Shea is"
"Anders Fogh Rasmussen Anders Fogh Rasmussen (; born 26 January 1953) is a Danish politician who was the 24th Prime Minister of Denmark from November 2001 to April 2009 and the 12th Secretary General of NATO from August 2009 to October 2014. He is now CEO of political consultancy Rasmussen Global and a senior advisor at The Boston Consulting Group's Copenhagen office. Rasmussen was first elected to the Folketing in 1978 and served in various ministerial positions, including Minister of Tax (1987–1992) and Minister of Economic Affairs (1990–1992). In his early career, Rasmussen was a strident critic of the welfare"
"Patricia Scotland Patricia Janet Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal (born 19 August 1955) is a British politician and barrister who served in ministerial positions within the UK Government, most notably as the Attorney General for England and Wales and Advocate General for Northern Ireland. At the 2015 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting she was elected the 6th Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations and took office on 1 April 2016. She is the first woman to hold the post. She is a dual citizen of the United Kingdom and Dominica. Scotland was born in Dominica, the 10th child of 12"
"Jaap de Hoop Scheffer Jakob Gijsbert ""Jaap"" de Hoop Scheffer (; born 3 April 1948) is a retired Dutch politician and diplomat of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA). He served as the 11th Secretary General of NATO from 5 January 2004 until 1 August 2009. He previously served as a Member of the House of Representatives from 3 June 1986 until 23 May 2002, and became the Parliamentary leader of the Christian Democratic Appeal in the House of Representatives of the Netherlands and CDA Party leader on 27 March 1997 after Enneüs Heerma stepped down. He resigned his positions as"
"the media for some time, and commentators pointed out that the alliance's policies toward Russia will be the most important issue faced by Stoltenberg. Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany, took the initiative to appoint Stoltenberg as Secretary-General, securing the support first of the United States, then of the United Kingdom, and then of all other member states. Norway was a founding member of NATO in 1949, and Stoltenberg is the first Norwegian to serve as Secretary-General, although former Conservative Party Prime Minister Kåre Willoch was considered a strong candidate in 1988. In September 2015, Czech Deputy Prime Minister Andrej"
"married and has two children, Chiara and Alexander. Jamie Shea Jamie Patrick Shea (born 11 September 1953 in London) is Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. He received worldwide attention during the 1999 Kosovo War, when he served as the spokesperson for NATO. He described the civilians killed by the NATO bombing of Serbia in the effort to prevent the Serbs from retaining Kosovo as the ""cost to defeat an evil"". He received his B.A. (Hons.) in Modern History and French from the University of Sussex (1977) and his D.Phil. in Modern"
"For example, in 2009, controversy arose over the choice of Anders Fogh Rasmussen as Secretary-General, due to opposition from Turkey. Because NATO's chief military officer, the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, is traditionally an American, the Secretary General has traditionally been a European. There is nothing to preclude a Canadian or American from becoming the Secretary General, but everyone to occupy the post to date has been European. Secretary General of NATO The Secretary General of NATO is an international diplomat who serves as the chief civil servant of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The Secretary General is responsible for"
"António Guterres António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres (; ; born 30 April 1949) is a Portuguese politician and diplomat who is serving as the ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. Guterres was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30"
"2014, Duffy published his autobiography, ""Growing Up Irish in Britain, British in Ireland and in Washington, Moscow, Rome & Sydney"". Patrick Duffy (British politician) Sir Albert Edward Patrick Duffy (born 17 June 1920) is an economist and Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was a Member of Parliament for Colne Valley 1963-1966, and for Sheffield Attercliffe 1970-1992. He was a Minister of the Navy in the 1970s, and President of the NATO Assembly in the 1980s. Duffy was educated at the London School of Economics and Columbia University, and served in the Fleet Air Arm in World War"
"As of 2018, there are five living former NATO Secretaries General. The most recent Secretary General to die was Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington (1919-2018) The NATO Secretary General chairs several of the senior decision-making bodies of NATO. In addition to the North Atlantic Council, he chairs the Defence Planning Committee and the Nuclear Planning Committee, two of NATO's important military organizations. The Secretary General also leads the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council, the Mediterranean Cooperation Group, and serves as Join Chairman of the Permanent Joint Council and the NATO-Ukraine Commission. In a second role, the Secretary General leads the staff of"
"the NATO Military Committee and the Supreme Allied Commander the Secretary General is one of the foremost officials of NATO. The current Secretary General is Jens Stoltenberg, the former Prime Minister of Norway, who took office on 1 October 2014. Article 9 of the North Atlantic Treaty requires NATO members to ""establish a Council, on which each of them shall be represented."" Accordingly, the North Atlantic Council was formed. Initially the Council consisted of NATO members' foreign ministers and met annually. In May 1950, the desire for closer coordination on a day-to-day basis led to the appointment of Council deputies,"
"married Sharon Ann Holdcroft, with whom he has a son and two daughters. Stephen Evans (diplomat) Stephen Evans CMG OBE (born 29 June 1950) is a British diplomat who has been on secondment since 2011 as NATO Assistant Secretary General for Operations. Stephen Nicholas Evans was educated at King's College, Taunton, then gained a BA degree from Bristol University. He served a three-year ""short service commission"" as a Lieutenant in the Royal Tank Regiment 1971–74 before joining the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). After studying Vietnamese language at the School of Oriental and African Studies he was Head of Chancery"
"Patrick Duffy (British politician) Sir Albert Edward Patrick Duffy (born 17 June 1920) is an economist and Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was a Member of Parliament for Colne Valley 1963-1966, and for Sheffield Attercliffe 1970-1992. He was a Minister of the Navy in the 1970s, and President of the NATO Assembly in the 1980s. Duffy was educated at the London School of Economics and Columbia University, and served in the Fleet Air Arm in World War II. He contested the Parliamentary seat of Tiverton in 1950, 1951 and 1955 before moving to the more promising seat"
"President of Latvia, Dr. Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga (2007); Dr. Henry Kissinger (2009); and former Secretary General of NATO, Lord George Robertson (2010). Christopher Makins, 2nd Baron Sherfield Christopher James Makins, 2nd Baron Sherfield (23 July 1942 – 28 January 2006) was an Anglo-American diplomat, foreign policy expert, and author. Christopher James Makins was born at Southampton, New York on 23 July 1942, the son of a British father Roger Mellor Makins, later 1st Baron Sherfield and an American mother, Alice Brooks Davis, daughter of the American sportsman and politician Dwight F. Davis. Thus he held dual citizenship of the UK and"
"Nick Clegg Sir Nicholas William Peter Clegg (born 7 January 1967) is a British former politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2015 and as Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2007 to 2015. An """" liberal, Clegg served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Hallam from 2005 to 2017 and has been associated with both socially liberal and economically liberal policies. He is currently Vice-President for Global Affairs and Communications at Facebook. Born in Buckinghamshire, Clegg was educated at the University of Cambridge, the University of Minnesota, and the College"
"Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, (6 June 1919 – 9 July 2018) was a British Conservative politician and hereditary peer who served as Defence Secretary from 1970 to 1974, Foreign Secretary from 1979 to 1982, chairman of British General Electric Company from 1983 to 1984, and Secretary General of NATO from 1984 to 1988. Before his death in 2018, he was the last surviving member of the 1951–55 government of Winston Churchill, the Eden government, and the Macmillan government, as well as of the cabinets of Alec Douglas-Home and Edward Heath. Following the"
"Anthony Westnedge, OBE. Other E-AG Presidents have included The Lord Layton CH CBE, The Rt Hon Earl of Listowel, Sir Geoffrey de Freitas KCMG MP and, since the 1990s, The Earl of Bessborough DL, Sir Frank Roberts GCMG GCVO, The Rt Hon Lord Rippon of Hexham QC, The Lord Dahrendorf, Lord Judd, The Earl of Limerick KBE, The Viscount Montgomery of Alamein CMG CBE, Sir Michael Burton KCVO CMG, The Baroness Hooper CMG, Lord Dykes and the Rt Hon Baroness Symons of Vernam Dean. The E-AG hosted Anniversary celebration banquets for the founding of NATO every decade. In 1989, the"
"Scheffer has held a variety of paid and unpaid positions, including: It has been alleged by Iran that Jaap de Hoop Scheffer has met Jundallah leader Abdolmalek Rigi while he was visiting Afghanistan in 2008 as NATO secretary general amid Iranian and some western press accusations that CIA is backing the terrorist group. This accusation was later denied by NATO. Jaap de Hoop Scheffer Jakob Gijsbert ""Jaap"" de Hoop Scheffer (; born 3 April 1948) is a retired Dutch politician and diplomat of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA). He served as the 11th Secretary General of NATO from 5 January"
"the Red Cross. Bob Stewart (British Army officer) Colonel Robert Alexander Stewart, DSO (born 7 July 1949) is a former British Army officer, former United Nations commander in Bosnia, commentator, author, public speaker, and Conservative Party politician. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the safe seat of Beckenham in South-East London since the 2010 general election. Stewart was born on the 7 July 1949 to a father serving in the military. He was privately educated at Chigwell School, followed by the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst near Camberley in Surrey. He spent part of his childhood in Cyprus."
"peer whilst serving as Secretary of State for Defence before resigning to take up the post of Secretary General of NATO. From 1999 to 2010 the Attorney General for England and Wales was a Member of the House of Lords; the most recent was Patricia Scotland. The House of Lords remains a source for junior ministers and members of government. Like the House of Commons, the Lords also has a Government Chief Whip as well as several Junior Whips. Where a government department is not represented by a minister in the Lords or one is not available, government whips will"
"Navy officer Carlos Garreta. In February 2014, she married her colleague, Conservative MP Mark Lancaster. She is a lifetime supporter of Portsmouth F.C. Caroline Dinenage Caroline Julia Dinenage (born 28 October 1971) is a British Conservative Party politician who was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Gosport at the 2010 general election. She was re-elected in 2015 and 2017. A former Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the Minister for Women and Equalities, Nicky Morgan, Dinenage has served in Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State roles at the Ministry of Justice, Department for Education and Department for Work and Pensions, before being"