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"NATO's bombing no obstacle to cooperation" – FM

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BRUSSELS -- With the signing of the Individual Partnership Action Plan (IPAP), Serbia "entered a new phase in relations with NATO," said Ivica Dacic and Bratislav Gasic.

"Our neutrality is not called into question by this plan," Dacic, who serves as Serbia's foreign minister and deputy premier, told reporters at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday after a meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.

He said that "no one can change what happened 16 years ago when NATO bombed Serbia" - but that "it should not be an obstacle to building partnership relations in the future."

Stoltenberg, said Dacic, recently spoke with Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, "so further development of relations with the alliance should be expected."

He said that he received guarantees from Stoltenberg that "no kind of Kosovo's armed forces will have access to the north of Kosovo,", recalling that the previous NATO chief gave similar guarantees.

Dacic said that IPAP "opens the possibility of cooperation between Serbia and NATO in many fields, including science, public diplomacy and participation in international peacekeeping operations."

"These, of course, are not combat operations," remarked Dacic, and explained that it means cooperation in rescue operations during natural disasters.

He said that NATO was "also important for Serbia because of KFOR and the support to the Brussels agreement," and recalled that the KFOR commander recently met with the Serbian army chief.

Dacic said that his meeting with Stoltenberg touched on many issues, "including relations with Russia and Serbia's role as chairman of the OSCE."

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Nato 'not distracted' by Russia crisis

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"It (Russia-Ukraine conflict) has bought cyber even more into the thinking of the alliance," he said, during a session at tech fair CeBIT in Germany.

"When you look at the events that have unfoldedcyber is prominent. We, at NATO, look at this phenomenon and we realise you have to deal with a range of capabilities also taking cyber into the account."

The conflict between Russia and Ukraine has been rumbling on since 2013. Crimea was annexed last year, and battles between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian separatists in the east of Ukraine have continued ever since.

During the conflict there have been a number of cyberattacks reported. Last year, computers in several Ukrainian government offices were infected with cyberespionage tools which appeared to be linked to Russia, while an attack on the German government's website earlier this year was attributed to a pro-Russian group.

In addition, North Korea was accused of carrying out a major hack on Sony, highlighting the increasing amount of state-backed cyberattacks.

Last year, Nato said that a cyberattack on a country could come under Article 5 of the Washington Treaty, which means it would be seen as an attack against the whole organization. This essentially treats a cyberattack the same as a traditional military assault.

Nato has been criticized in the past for being irrelevant, but Liflander refuted such claims, saying the organization was prepared to deal with hackers.

"When it comes to time, place and the specific tool that can be used, (Nato's) range is quite wide in order to deescalate the situation," he added.

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NATO allies come to grips with Russias deceptive hybrid warfare

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In this Friday, May 9, 2014 file photo Russian bombers Tu-22M3 fly in formation during a Victory Day Parade, which commemorates the 1945 defeat of Nazi Germany in Moscow, Russia. Russia plans to station state-of-the art missiles to its westernmost Baltic exclave and deploy nuclear-capable bombers to Crimea as part of massive war games intended to showcase the nations resurgent military power amid bitter tensions with the West over Ukraine. AP

RIGA, Latvia NATO allies are scrambling to protect vulnerable Baltic partners from the threat of hybrid warfare, a Russian tactic that officials and experts say is based on deception rather than formal declaration of war.

Russian President Vladimir Putins use of anonymous little green men to slice Crimea away from Ukraine last year sent alarm bells ringing throughout the three small Baltic NATO and EU members.

They endured decades of Soviet occupation after the Red Army rolled in during World War II.While a full-scale invasion is improbable now, hybrid meddling and destabilization tactics designed to test NATOs commitment to collective defense are not.

Putins brand of hybrid warfare also relies on misinformation, bribery, economic pressure, which are designed to undermine the nation, according to Latvian Defence Minister Raimonds Vejonis.

Trojan Horse

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite did not mince her words when she said: The first stage of confrontation is taking place I mean informational war, propaganda and cyber attacks. So we are already under attack.

According to James Sherr of Britains Chatham House think-tank, hybrid warfare is designed to cripple a state before that state even realizes the conflict has begun.

Its a model of warfare designed to slip under NATOs threshold of perception and reaction.

NATO Deputy Secretary General Alexander Vershbow has called it a modern example of the ancient Trojan Horse tactic.

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NATO meets Russian aircraft

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Story highlights Russian military aircraft are intercepted by NATO jets NATO says the military aircraft weren't on a flight plan Russia is conducting military exercises

Estonian radar detected the aircraft over the Baltic Sea on Tuesday night, NATO said. Other than the lead aircraft, NATO said, none of the other Russian military aircraft was on a flight plan.

NATO sent jets to identify the planes and later reported that the military aircraft flew on into Russian airspace.

NATO didn't say how many Russian aircraft were involved. The flights come as Russia's Northern Fleet has been placed on full combat alert for military exercises involving nearly 40,000 troops and 50 warships.

The exercises have rattled nerves in nearby NATO states, including Latvia, where U.S. troops and equipment recently arrived for NATO training, and where fears are growing about Russian President Vladimir Putin's next move.

At the same time on Wednesday, Putin joined a celebration in Moscow's Red Square, where Russians celebrated the one-year anniversary of the annexation of Crimea.

NATO has condemned the annexation as an illegal territory grab and is boosting its troop presence in the region in what officials say is an effort to discourage Putin from encroaching into other countries.

Putin describes the annexation as a "reunification," saying that Crimea's residents overwhelmingly voted to be part of Russia.

CNN's Don Melvin and Catherine E. Shoichet contributed to this report.

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NATO intercepts Russian planes

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Story highlights Russian military aircraft are intercepted by NATO jets NATO says the military aircraft weren't on a flight plan Russia is conducting military exercises

Estonian radar detected the aircraft over the Baltic Sea on Tuesday night, NATO said. Other than the lead aircraft, NATO said, none of the other Russian military aircraft was on a flight plan.

NATO sent jets to identify the planes and later reported that the military aircraft flew on into Russian airspace.

NATO didn't say how many Russian aircraft were involved. The flights come as Russia's Northern Fleet has been placed on full combat alert for military exercises involving nearly 40,000 troops and 50 warships.

The exercises have rattled nerves in nearby NATO states, including Latvia, where U.S. troops and equipment recently arrived for NATO training, and where fears are growing about Russian President Vladimir Putin's next move.

At the same time on Wednesday, Putin joined a celebration in Moscow's Red Square, where Russians celebrated the one-year anniversary of the annexation of Crimea.

NATO has condemned the annexation as an illegal territory grab and is boosting its troop presence in the region in what officials say is an effort to discourage Putin from encroaching into other countries.

Putin describes the annexation as a "reunification," saying that Crimea's residents overwhelmingly voted to be part of Russia.

CNN's Don Melvin and Catherine E. Shoichet contributed to this report.

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NATO Continue Black Sea Drills Near Occupied Crimea: USS Vicksburg leads naval rapid reaction force – Video

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NATO Continue Black Sea Drills Near Occupied Crimea: USS Vicksburg leads naval rapid reaction force
NATO ships continued a joint exercise in the Black Sea off the Romanian coast on Monday. The naval rapid reaction force in the Black Sea drills consists of a United States flagship, the guided...

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