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La Spezia, 30 September 2025 – The Chair of the NATO Military Committee (CMC), Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, travelled to Italy to partake as a keynote speaker at the SEAFUTURE 2025 Conference. During his stay, CMC visited also the NATO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE) and the “The National Pole of the Underwater Dimension (PNS).

On Thursday, 2 October 2025, the NATO Secretary General, Mr Mark Rutte, will participate in the meeting of the European Political Community (EPC), at Bella Centre in Copenhagen, Denmark.

On 29 September 2025, NATO Defense College students and leadership were welcomed by Director General of International Military Staff (DGIMS) Lieutenant General Remigijus Baltrėnas.

On Tuesday (30 September 2025) NATO Secretary General, Mark Rutte attended a meeting of the European Union’s College of Commissioners hosted by European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels, Belgium.

On Tuesday 30 September, the NATO Secretary General, Mr. Mark Rutte will participate in a discussion on defence and security issues with the College of European Commissioners.

On Monday (29 September 2025), NATO Deputy Secretary General Radmila Shekerinska visited Warsaw, Poland to conduct bilateral meetings and attend the Warsaw Security Forum.

On Wednesday, 1 October 2025, the NATO Secretary General, Mr Mark Rutte, will receive His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.

NATO’s highest Military Authority, the NATO Military Committee, met in Riga, Latvia, on 26-27 September 2025. The 32 NATO Chiefs of Defence, together with the Strategic Commanders, discussed military developments within the Alliance, particularly in face of increasingly worrying threats to the Euro-Atlantic security, and in light of the decisions taken at the historic NATO Summit in The Hague, in June 2025.

On Friday 26 and Saturday 27 September, NATO Deputy Secretary General, Radmila Shekerinska visited Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) where she engaged in high-level meetings and participated in the Sarajevo Security Conference.

On Friday (26 September 2025), NATO Assistant Secretary General for Defence Industry, Innovation and Armaments, Ms Tarja Jaakkola, opened the first staff-to-staff dialogue on defence industrial cooperation and capabilities between NATO and the Republic of Korea. Ms Jaakkola and representatives of the Defence Acquisition Program Administration of the Republic of Korea discussed recent developments in the areas of defence industrial production and defence capabilities.

On Wednesday (24 September), NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte travelled to New York as the United Nations hosted its 80th General Assembly, engaging with political leaders and senior officials.

NATO and the Government of Canada have concluded an agreement on the co-location of the NATO Liaison Office (NLO) ​with the Canadian Permanent Mission to the UN in New York. Finalised on 24 September 2025​​, the temporary arrangement ​is intended as a stepping stone toward a more permanent one.

Allied Defence Ministers will meet at NATO Headquarters in Brussels on 15 October 2025. The meeting will be chaired by the NATO Secretary General, Mark Rutte.

The NATO Secretary General, Mr Mark Rutte, will travel to New York from Wednesday 24 September 2025 to Thursday 25 September 2025 to attend the 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).

On Tuesday, 23 September 2025, the NATO Secretary General, Mr Mark Rutte, will give a press conference at NATO Headquarters, in Brussels.

Security experts from across the Alliance and its partners gathered in Bratislava this week (17-19 September 2025) for a meeting of the NATO Security Committee, bringing together representatives from over 60 countries, as well as international organisations. The three-day event was co-organised by the NATO Office of Security within the Joint Intelligence and Security Division, and the National Security Authority of the Slovak Republic.

Germany and Poland hosted the second informal meeting of NATO’s Senior National Officials for Resilience in Berlin (16-18 September 2025). The meeting involved a scenario-based discussion, enabling Allies to share their national progress, experiences and best practices when preparing for complex, multi-domain crises.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte travelled to Volkel Air Base, Netherlands, on Thursday (18 September 2025), home to two Royal Netherlands Air Force F-35 squadrons. Volkel air base also hosts the U.S. Air Force 703rd Munitions Support Squadron.