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Former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen puts forward a proposal for Ukraine to join the military alliance but without the territories occupied by Russia.
2023-11-11

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says that Russia's military mobilization is "dangerous and reckless", and condemns Putin's use of "nuclear rhetoric".
2022-09-21

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy calls for U.S. President Joe Biden and NATO to impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine. However, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace, and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg state that NATO and the U.S. have ruled out imposing a no-fly zone.
2022-02-28

During an emergency NATO summit, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announces that NATO will provide weapons to Ukraine. He also announces that the NATO Response Force will be activated for the first time in history.
2022-02-25

Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg announces an increase in NATO personnel in Iraq from 500 to around 4,000 amid a surge in ISIL activity in the country. The training mission will also be expanded to more areas beyond Baghdad and include more Iraqi security institutions, according to Stoltenberg.
2021-02-18

The United Nations mission for Libya announces that the warring parties in the war have agreed to a "permanent ceasefire in all areas of Libya." The UN says it is an "important turning point towards peace and stability in Libya." The Libyan National Army (LNA) of Khalifa Haftar, based in the east, had been at war with the Government of National Accord (GNA), based in Tripoli.
2020-10-23

The United States Africa Command accuses Russia of deploying fighter jets to eastern Libya to provide air support to Russian mercenaries allied to Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, who is locked in a civil war with the UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA).
2020-05-26

Both of Libya's rival governments, the Government of National Accord and Tobruk-based House of Representatives, pull out of UN-sponsored peace talks in Geneva.
2020-02-24

In Brussels, an accession protocol for joining NATO is signed between Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of NATO, and Nikola Dimitrov, foreign minister of the Republic of Macedonia.
2019-02-6

NATO reopens informal talks with Russia for the first time in nearly two years. According to the Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg "NATO and Russia have profound and persistent disagreements, today’s meeting did not change that."
2016-04-20