Interparlementaire bijeenkomsten
NATO PA Rose-Roth Seminar, 23 and 24 October 2023, Stockholm (Sweden)
DNAT Chair Tom Vandenkendelaere and DNAT Member Sándor Rónai attended the Rose-Roth-Seminar in Stockholm, 23-24 October 2023. NATO PA parliamentarians held insightful discussions on the challenges facing the Transatlantic community and NATO partners at risk such as Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova or Bosnia and Herzegovina. The two-days seminar brought together more than 100 participants from national parliaments, governments, the diplomatic community and academia and it was also addressed by former Swedish Prime and Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, prominent members of the current government of Sweden (Foreign, Defence and EU Affairs Ministers) and the Chair of the NATO Military Committee. The programme was supplemented by a visit to the Livgardet (Life Guards Regiment), the largest unit of the Swedish Armed Forces.
NATO PA: 69th Annual Session, Copenhagen (Denmark), 6-9 October 2023
These key notes were discussed:
- Russia's war against Ukraine
- Ukraine's support for democracy, in dependence and sovereignty
- NATO's strategic adaptation
- EU-NATO relations
- NATO Centre for Democratic Resilience
- The Global South
- China, ....
NATO PA Spring Session, Luxembourg (Grand Duchy of Luxembourg), 19-22 May 2023
These topics were discussed:
- Allied support to Ukraine, NATO membership perspectives
- Russia and its war of aggression against Ukraine
- NATO's strategic adaptation, defence spending
- EU-NATO cooperation
- NATO Centre for Democratic Resilience
- NATO's Open Door Policy including accession of Sweden
- Belarus, China, etc.
NATO Parliamentary Assembly: 68th Annual Session, Madrid, 18-21 November 2022
The following topics were discussed:
- war in Ukraine, Russian aggression
- NATO's strategic orientation and adaptation
- EU-NATO cooperation
- NATO accession of Sweden and Finland
- cyber-resilience
- global warming
- food crisis, ....
NATO PA Spring Session, Vilnius (Lithuania), 27-30 May 2022
It was the first full-fledged session of the NATO PA since the Covid pandemic.
The following topics were discussed:
- war in Ukraine, Russian aggression, Allied support and implications on the European security order
- NATO's broader adaptation and revision of NATO's Strategic Concept
- NATO aspirations of Sweden and Finland
- NATO's role in the Indo-Pacific region
- terrorism, ...
NATO Parliamentary Assembly: 67th Annual Session, Lisbon, 8-11 October 2021
The key themes of this session included:
- a focus on the update of the Alliance's Strategic Concept
- a reminder that democratic values remain at the heart of the Alliance
- a call for NATO to conduct a 'clear-eyed' assessment of Afghan shortcomings
- a call for greater NATO engagement in the Middle East and North Africa
NATO PA Online Spring Session (Sweden), 14-17 May 2021
NATO Parliamentary Assembly 66th Annual Session | 18-23 November 2020
NATO PA Spring Session: Kyiv, 22-25 May 2020 postponed
NATO Parliamentary Assembly 65th Annual Session, London, 11-14 October 2019
Lead by Kris PEETERS, Chair, a delegation of DNAT Members including Nathalie LOISEAU (Chair of SEDE and Vice-Chair) participated in the 65th NATO PA Annual Session, in London between 11 and 14 October 2019. This year NATO marks its 70th anniversary. At a time of acute geopolitical instability and while citizens demand more security, the Assembly discussed topics such as NATO cybersecurity defence and deterrence, economic sanctions, commitment to NATO's founding principles, security challenges in Africa and recent development in Afghanistan.