It is her third posting at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. Since September of last year, Ambassador Anita Nergaard, serves as Norway’s Permanent Representative to the strongest military alliance the world has ever seen.
Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced at the conclusion of the 2023 NATO Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, that Ukraine will eventually become a member while stressing that the Alliance had agreed to remove the requirement for a Membership Action Plan.
On May 31, Norway hosted an informal meeting for NATO Foreign Ministers in Oslo. We discussed the meeting with its principal organizer, Special Representative for Nordic and Baltic Security Policy Øystein Bø.
In an exclusive interview, Finnish Ambassador to NATO Klaus Korhonen discusses what’s next for Helsinki’s NATO accession process; Russia and Ukraine, as well as arms control and disarmament.
Norwegian Ambassador to NATO Øystein Bø discusses what’s next for the military alliances and the growing threat from Russia and China.
Many observers are speculating whether Finland and Sweden will be joining NATO because of the growing threat Russia’s war in Ukraine presents to the Nordic countries.
Although no military doctrine exists for Nordic security, yet a political document entitled Vision 2025 was adopted in 2009 by Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland.