Willy Claes resigns from NATO post
- Title
- Willy Claes resigns from NATO post
- Genre
- Speech
- TX Date
- 20 Oct 1995
- Year of production
- 1995
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- Duration
- 00:02:04
- Description
- Willy Claes’ statement in Brussels this afternoon that he is resigning as Secretary General of NATO, following the Belgian parliament’s vote last night which makes him liable for prosecution in the country’s courts over fraud and corruption charges during his time as Belgian economics minister. Claes on why he is resigning and NATO’s success as a partnership for peace, including the air strike operation in the former Yugoslavia, during his past one year term in office.
- Contributors
- Willy Claes
- Keywords
- Fraud; Ethnic conflicts; Corruption; NATO; Belgium; Peacebuilding; Peacekeeping; Aerial bombardment; Wars (events); Resignation (political); Bosnia and Herzegovina; Willy Claes; Yugoslav War (1991-1995)
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