Italian defence minister urges reform within NATO
Di Paola says European Union members must make voices heard
05 February, 14:15
(ANSA) - Rome, February 5 - Member states of the European
Union must make themselves heard within NATO as part of a
renewed political commitment to the defence organization,
Italian Defence Minister Giampaolo Di Paola said Tuesday."So, in the future, Europeans must make their voices heard, they have to feel a renewed political commitment," Di Paola told the 58th General Assembly of the Atlantic Treaty Association (ATA) at the NATO defence college in Rome.
"We should not be afraid of a process of balancing and re-balancing the alliance". ATA General Assembly meetings are organized every year in a different member country. The most recent meetings were held in Ottawa, Canada (2007), Berlin, Germany (2008), Kiev, Ukraine (2009), and Tirana, Albania (2011).
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