Philip M. Breedlove

"NATO will be more important in the next 75 years than it has been in the last 75," NATO's former supreme allied commander Europe (2013-2016) General Philip Breedlove tells Kathimerini.

The Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) of NATO Allied Command Operations Curtis Scaparrotti arrives on an official visit to Bulgaria.

He comes at the invitation of Defense Chief Lieutenant General Andrei Botev. During his visit, he will also meet Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Krassimir Karakachanov.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Wednesday in Belgrade received a delegation of the US Armed Forces.

The delegation was headed by Ret. Gen. Philip Breedlove, the previous NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe.

The meeting between Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic and NATO's allied commander in Europe Philip Breedlove, scheduled for Friday, has been canceled.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will meet with Breedlove, the government's media office announced today.

NATO?s highest military authority, the Military Committee, will convene in Istanbul for a three-day session starting Sept. 11 to review security challenges in Europe and the Middle East, as well as ongoing operations in Afghanistan.

The meeting will be hosted by Turkish Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar.

The Ministry of National Defence celebrated by a military ceremony the NATO Day in Romania on Sunday, and also declared a Doors Open Day.

Photo credit: (c) Cristian NISTOR / AGERPRES ARCHIVE

Defence Minister Mircea Dusa, Romanian Army Chief of Staff General Nicolae Ciuca and other officials of the ministry attended the event.

The West should consider using all its tools to help Ukraine, including sending defensive weapons, NATO's top military commander said on March 22.
   
Officials in Washington have been discussing whether to send weapons to Ukraine's military to help them fight pro-Russian separatists who NATO says are armed and supported by Moscow.
   

NATO's top military commander warned Nov. 26 that Russia's "militarisation" of the annexed Crimea region could be used by Moscow to exert control across the whole Black Sea region.
      
"We are very concerned with the militarisation of Crimea," US General Philip Breedlove told a press conference in Kyiv.
      

NATO has sighted Russian military convoys entering into Ukraine over the past two days, Supreme Allied Commander Europe Gen. Philip Breedlove said in Sofia on Wednesday.

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Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) Gen Philip Breedlove is on a two-day visit to Bulgaria on Wednesday and Thursday.

Breedlove is due to meet newly-appointed Defense Minister Nikolay Nenchev and Vice Admiral Rumen Nikolov, who became Chief of Defense in June.

He is to lay wreath at the Monument to the Unknown Soldier in Bulgaria's capital Sofia.