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NATO Renames Military Headquarters in Europe

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has officially renamed its Allied Command Europe as Allied Command Operations (ACO).


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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has officially renamed its Allied Command Europe as Allied Command Operations (ACO).

The decision was announced by NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe James Jones at the headquarters of the newly-formed ACO near Mons city in Belgium on Monday.

He said that the change symbolizes the landmark decision taken by NATO's top leaders at the 2002 Prague Summit to revitalize NATOand its military command structure with the creation of two new headquarters: ACO and Allied Command Transformation (ACT).

"ACO and its sister headquarters, ACT, reflect a fundamental change to the manner in which NATO's military command will operatein the future," he said.

The two new headquarters, one based on operations and the otherbased on concept and development, have distinct and urgent tasks, key among them being the creation of the NATO Response Force, he added.

ACO will continue to embrace all the NATO commands in Europe and add to its area of responsibility those operational elements that formerly came under the Supreme Allied Command Atlantic (SACLANT). SACLANT was decommissioned and ACT was established in its place in Norfolk, Virginia of the United States on June 19.

The strategic transformation was among the key decisions made by the NATO leaders at the Prague summit meeting. NATO defense ministers' meeting in mid-June made concrete decisions on the command structure of the 54-year-old military alliance.




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