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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.

NATO and Jordan marked an important milestone in their long-standing partnership with the opening of the NATO Liaison Office (NLO) in Amman, Jordan on 16 September 2025. To mark the occasion, the NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for the Southern Neighbourhood, Javier Colomina, paid an official visit to Jordan, where he met with the Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, H.E. Ambassador Dhaifallah Al-Fayez.

On Wednesday, 17 September 2025, the NATO Secretary General, Mr Mark Rutte, will receive the Prime Minister of Albania, Mr Edi Rama, at NATO Headquarters, in Brussels.

On Friday (12 September 2025), NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) General Alexus G. Grynkewich held a joint press conference to outline NATO’s response to the violation of Polish airspace by Russian drones two days earlier. Mr Rutte announced the launch of “Eastern Sentry,” a military activity aimed to bolster NATO’s posture along the eastern flank.

From 7 to 12 September 2025, the civilian-led exercise “BULGARIA 2025”, co-organised by NATO’s Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Centre (EADRCC) and the Bulgarian Ministry of Interior, took place in Montana, Bulgaria.

On Friday, 12 September 2025, the NATO Secretary General, Mr Mark Rutte, and the Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), General Alexus G. Grynkewich, will give a joint press conference at NATO Headquarters, in Brussels.

Brussels, NATO HQ, 11 September – The Colombia War College met with the NATO International Military Staff (IMS), during their annual visit to NATO. The visiting group was briefed on the ongoing practical initiatives that NATO and Colombia are undertaking to continue increasing security ties.

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Seoul, 8-9 September 2025 – The Chair of the Military Committee (CMC), Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, visited the Republic of Korea, and participated as a keynote speaker in the Seoul Defense Dialogue (SDD). During the visit CMC met with political and military leaders of the Indo-Pacific NATO Partner.