Financial Times January 18, 2008 Robert Gates, US defence secretary, on Thursday said the recent decision to send an additional 3,200 marines to Afghanistan did not reflect dissatisfaction about the military performance of US allies in the country. more
The New York Times January 18, 2008 Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Thursday that NATO countries were playing a “significant and powerful role in Afghanistan,” after some of Washington’s closest European allies assailed him for comments cited in a news report about their counterinsurgency operations in the volatile south. more
International Herald Tribune January 18, 2008 While there is increasing evidence that the euro-area economy is slowing, most of the factors that are contributing to the bleak outlook in the United States are not present on the Continent, according to the governor of the Bank of France, Christian Noyer. more
The Associated Press January 17, 2008 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will press Washington’s case for fresh U.N. sanctions against Iran next week in Europe even as the U.S. considers imposing more penalties of its own to step up pressure on Tehran to halt activities that could lead to the development of a nuclear weapon. […]
Jerusalem Post January 17, 2008 In a report presented in Brussels, former military commanders of the United States, Germany, France, Britain and the Netherlands laid out a new strategy for NATO designed to create stronger ties between the US and its European allies. The authors of the report included Gen. (ret.) Dr. Klaus Naumann, former […]