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For the first time, Allied personnel policy directors met in Brussels (4 - 5 November 2024) to share best practices, lessons learned, and ideas for a larger NATO role in addressing challenges in recruiting and retaining military personnel. The discussions were co-chaired by NATO Assistant Secretary General for Defence Policy and Planning Angus Lapsley and Deputy Chair of the NATO Military Committee Lt. Gen Andrew M. Rohling.

Secretary General Mark Rutte visited Italy today (5 November 2024), where he met Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and President Sergio Mattarella. He underscored the importance of continuing to strengthen deterrence and defence, and step up support to Ukraine.

During his first official visit to Berlin on Monday (4 November), NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte thanked Chancellor Olaf Scholz for Germany’s significant contributions to the Alliance and its ongoing support for Ukraine.

On Monday, 4 November 2024, Secretary General Mark Rutte will travel to Berlin, Germany.

This week [28-31 October] a NATO delegation attended the 34th International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent in Geneva. NATO reaffirmed its pledge to continue working with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to identify further opportunities to provide training and education on international humanitarian law. This is the third time that NATO makes this pledge (following the 32nd and 33rd International Conferences in 2015 and 2019).

On Tuesday, 5 November 2024, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, will travel to Rome, Italy.

On 30 October 2024, the Invictus Games Foundation briefed the NATO Military Committee at NATO Headquarters on the role of Invictus in supporting wounded, injured and sick service members and veterans. Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, addressed the Military Committee via VTC, with a delegation attending the meeting in person. The delegation included: Dominic Reid, Chief Executive of Invictus; Lord Allen, Chancellor of the Board of Trustees; and Richard Smith, the Deputy Chief Executive Officer.

From 27 to 29 October 2024, the delegation of the NATO International Military Staff (IMS) visited Pakistan for the 11th iteration of NATO-Pakistan Military Staff Talks. During the visit Director General of IMS (DGIMS), Lieutenant General Janusz Adamczak also met with the senior military leaders of this NATO partner country.

On Wednesday, 30 October 2024, the NATO Acting Deputy Secretary General, Ambassador Boris Ruge, will travel to Zagreb, Croatia.

Wichita Falls, Texas is home to the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training Program, where aspiring aviators from 14 NATO member countries see if they have what it takes to fly with the Alliance’s best.

Today Secretary General Rutte met with President von der Leyen for the first time since Mr Rutte took office at the helm of NATO.

Following a briefing from senior South Korean officials to the North Atlantic Council, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte delivered a public statement on the deployment of DPRK troops to Russia.

On Monday, 28 October, a high-level delegation from the Republic of Korea will brief the North Atlantic Council on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) troop deployment to Russia. Ambassadors from NATO’s Indo-Pacific partners – including Australia, Japan, New Zealand and the Republic of Korea – have been invited to attend. After the meeting, the NATO Secretary General will give a brief statement to the media in the doorstep area.

On 24 October 2024, NATO kicked-off "Neptune Strike 2024." This enhanced vigilance activity will take place across Europe, from the central Mediterranean and Adriatic up to the North and Baltic Seas and will run until 31 October 2024. During this period, NATO will take operational control of cutting-edge maritime warfare capabilities from numerous Allies, including multiple aircraft carriers and expeditionary strike groups that will be deployed across several operational domains.

More than 100 Allied experts and representatives met at the NATO Hybrid Symposium in Prague, Czechia on 24-25 October to address the challenges posed by adversarial use of hybrid tactics. Participants discussed the worsening threat environment and how to strengthen NATO`s approach to countering hybrid threats and deter these threats more effectively.