Let me, for the last time as NATO Secretary General, take this opportunity to wish you and yours my best wishes for the holiday season, and for a happy 2009.

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The NATO Deputy Secretary General Claudio Bisognero visited Azerbaijan on 16 December 2008 in order to meet with high - level officials and discuss issues of common interest in the context of Azerbaijan's Individual Partnership Action Plan with NATO.

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Admiral Gumiero, Commander of the NATO counter-piracy Operation Allied Provider off the coast of Somalia, met with his EU counterpart, Commodore Papaioannou, to ensure a smooth transition to EU Operation ATALANTA on 14 December 2008.

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NATO completes its mission to escort World Food Programme (WFP) chartered vessels delivering humanitarian aid today. NATO provided an escort on eight occasions which resulted in the safe delivery of 30,000 metric tonnes of humanitarian aid to Somalia.

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On Wednesday 10th December 2008, the North Atlantic Council in ISAF format met with His Excellency Mr. Mohamad Hanif Atmar, recently appointed as Afghanistan’s Minister of the Interior.

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Following up on the success of the NATO train journey from Slovakia to Croatia in November 2007, a second trip will take the train and its participants across South-Eastern Europe from 9 to 11 December 2008.

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The Minister of Interior of Afghanistan, Mr. Atmar Mohamad Hanif Atmar, will visit NATO Headquarters on Wednesday 10th December 2008. He will meet with the Secretary General, Mr. Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and address a meeting of the North Atlantic Council with non-NATO ISAF contributors.

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The President of Latvia, Mr. Valdis Zatlers, visited NATO Headquarters on Tuesday 9th December. He met with the Secretary General, Mr. Jaap de Hoop Scheffer.

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The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan, Mr. Elmar Mammadyarov, visited NATO Headquarters on Tuesday 9th December 2008. He met with the Secretary General, Mr. Jaap de Hoop Scheffer.

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