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NATO Defense Ministers Meeting on Russia Challenge

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NATO defense ministers are gathering for the first time since the Ukraine crisis, and top of the agenda is how to react long-term to Russia’s new military capabilities and its willingness to use them.

 

The two-day meeting in Brussels, which begins Tuesday, is supposed to help set the stage for the U.S-led alliance’s summit meeting in Wales this September. NATO has already taken some immediate steps to react to Moscow’s military occupation and annexation of Crimea.

 

Alliance officials said the ministers will consider longer-term responses, including an action readiness plan, a stepped-up schedule for military exercises and the possibility of additional deployments.

 

The ministers will discuss other topics, including the future of Afghanistan and defense spending. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is attending for the United States.

 

 

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NATO, Ukraine Join Military Exercise in Bulgaria

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Ukraine has joined two weeks of multinational military exercises that involve troops from 12 NATO member and partner nations, and demonstrate that cooperation continues between the alliance and the crisis-torn former Soviet republic.

The drills, dubbed Saber Guardian, began Friday at the Novo Selo training facility in eastern Bulgaria and will include some 700 troops from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Georgia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine and the United States, as well as representatives from NATO.

The exercise, planned before the current East-West standoff over Russia’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, is aimed at increasing regional flexibility, preserving and enhancing NATO interoperability, and facilitating multinational training, U.S. Army Europe spokesman Jesse Granger said.

 

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NATO takes up cyber-defence as threat grows

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1ՆԱՏՕ -ն կքննարկի կիբեռ-պաշտպանության հարցերDefence ministers from NATO’s 28 member states meet on Tuesday with cyber-defence top of the agenda, amid concerns about the threat posed by increasing cyber-attacks, many blamed on China.

“The challenge evolves all the time, probably (much faster) than any other type of threat we face at the moment,” said one senior NATO official who asked not to be named.
Newly appointed US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, who will be attending his first NATO meeting since taking office, has made the issue a priority.
In Singapore on Saturday he accused China of waging cyber-espionage against the US after a US report found evidence of a broad Chinese spying campaign against top US defence contractors and government agencies.
“The United States has expressed our concerns about the growing threat of cyber intrusions, some of which appear to be tied to the Chinese government and military,” he told an annual conference known as the Shangri-La Dialogue.
Hagel pressed Beijing to adhere to “international norms of responsible behaviour in cyberspace”, while acknowledging that the establishment of a joint cyber security working group was a positive step in fostering dialogue.
NATO head Anders Fogh Rasmussen made clear earlier this year that cyber-security is a key issue.
The US-led military alliance had been forced to upgrade its defences after several attacks, among them by Anonymous, the hacker group, he said.