21 April 2026 16:06 UTC · NATO · NATO News · Source · Email X Link

NATO reports Secretary General met President Bush and officials

Key points

Riga agenda and Summit preparations
Commitment to Afghanistan and Darfur support

TL;DR

NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer met President Bush, Secretaries Rice and Rumsfeld, and Stephen Hadley on 27 October 2006.
They discussed the Riga agenda, Afghanistan, and Darfur; NATO committed to continue support for peacekeepers.

Original text

Create an account Reset password Already have an account? Log in From now on you can download videos from our website If you would also like to subscribe to the newsletter and receive our latest updates, click on the button below. Enter the email address you registered with and we will send you a code to reset your password. The password must be at least 12 characters long, no spaces, include upper/lowercase letters, numbers and symbols. Click the button to return to the page you were on and log in with your new password. 27 October 2006 1 MIN READ NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer met on 27 October with President Bush, with Secretaries Rice and Rumsfeld, as well as with Stephen Hadley, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. With President Bush, the Secretary General discussed a number of issues. First, the Riga agenda, looking forward to the Summit in a few weeks and areas where progress needs to be made between now and then. They discussed Afghanistan extensively, the importance of maintaining NATO’s commitment to the country and reinforcing the success that the Alliance has had until now, ensuring that Afghanistan does not slip back to what it was five years go. They discussed also the situation in Darfur with both leaders expressing concern about the security environment in the region. The Secretary General committed NATO to continue the support that it is providing to peacekeepers in the region. Link was copied to clipboard

Key tags

Topics

Keywords

Stats

Word count: 251

Summary words: 47

Compression: 19%

Boilerplate removed: Yes

Top phrases:

Entities

People

Organizations

Places

Riga
Darfur