James Appathurai Quotations

There is a shared determination to push forward with the expansion of the mission.

Sofia will be an opportunity for foreign ministers to look forward to Riga. Indeed, this whole ministerial meeting is a stepping stone toward the very important Riga summit. But they will have a discussion on enlargement.

There is a discussion underway amongst allies on the extent to which we need to in someway formalize these relationships.

What is clear is that the allies are deeply concerned with the conduct of the elections and are looking carefully at the relationship with Belarus.

NATO is not moving to the Pacific. NATO is not moving anywhere.

NATO has not received any formal request from the UN or from the AU for anything beyond what it is currently doing. NATO is continuing to do what it has been doing for many months, and that is airlifting in and out African Union battalions...as well as providing training.

NATO has not received any formal request from the U.N. or from the African Union for anything beyond what it is currently doing. NATO is continuing to do what it has been doing for many months, and that is airlifting in and out African Union battalions ... as well as providing training.

The Alliance aims to achieve the same results in 2006.

We are very much focused ... on what more we can do.

The United States has requested NATO relief support in the form of food supplies. NATO Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Center (EADRCC) is coordinating responses to this request by allies and NATO partners,

This (expansion) is a very complicated thing to do in terms of force generation and actually setting up the operation.

They will not take a lead role in crop burning.

Before mid-October it will be up and running.

NATO has been supporting Haj pilgrimage for those Afghans who wish to go to Saudi Arabia. The Alliance has played a role in helping transport concerning their security as they leave and come back to Afghanistan.

The allies are looking carefully at the relationship.

All nations agree that ISAF and OEF need to work more closely together, and that when NATO takes over operations throughout the country that there must be unity of command.