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Post by tufta on Nov 9, 2010 12:48:04 GMT 1
New Director appointed to the NATO Information Office in Moscow by Jorge Benitez | November 08, 2010
From NATO: The Secretary General of NATO, Mr. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, has appointed Mr. Robert Pszczel as Director of the NATO Information Centre in Moscow.
The Office, inaugurated in 2001, provides information on NATO and NATO-Russia cooperation to the Russian public.
From the Moscow Times: NATO has appointed a new head of its Moscow Information Office, ending an almost 18-month vacancy caused by a spy scandal last year.
The politically sensitive post will be filled by Robert Pszczel, a senior press officer at NATO's headquarters in Brussels, the alliance said in a statement on its web site.
Pszczel told The Moscow Times on Monday that he would take up his new job toward the end of the month.
A Polish national, Pszczel has been working for NATO since 1999, when Poland joined the alliance. Before that, he served nine years in the Polish Foreign Ministry. (photo: NATO)
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Post by tufta on Nov 9, 2010 12:49:06 GMT 1
en.rian.ru/russia/20101109/161258021.htmlThe new head of the NATO Information Centre in Moscow will arrive in Russia in December, a popular Russian daily said on Tuesday. NATO Secretary General appointed Robert Pszczel to the post last Friday. Vremya Novostei describes the official, who earlier worked in the press service of NATO headquarters in Brussels, as a person who "not only speaks good Russian and follows closely Russian-related topics, but also demonstrates impartiality and goodwill in issues of Russian-NATO relations." Russia's envoy to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, said Pszczel has already received accreditation to work in Russia. The NATO Information Centre in Moscow, inaugurated in 2001, provides information on the alliance and its relations with Russia to the Russian public. Russia's Foreign Ministry announced the expulsion of the previous director, Canadian Embassy attache Isabelle Francois, and a second bureau official, Canadian Embassy attache Mark Opgenorth, in 2009, in retaliation for a similar step by NATO. MOSCOW, November 9 (RIA Novosti)
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Post by tufta on Nov 9, 2010 12:59:12 GMT 1
Let me add that besided fluent Russian Robert Pszczel speaks also English, French, Dutch and German. Choosing of this Pole for the post is a sign of better NATO-RF relations, not the worse ones. Quite a revolution we need in our thinking about the modern world, isn't it? And of course it is also a sign that NATOąs captain (Anders Rasmussen) has a much better idea how to lead the NATO ship, than EU foreign minister (Baronessa Ashton), who sent Iberian diplomats to Eastern Europe to represent EU ship, and other nonsense of this kind.
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