allow me first of all to thank ian davis here, nato watch, paul ingram from basic, and anne and chris for the valuable contribution. this is an excellent conference. as president of the international, i thank you for getting us onboard. now, another good news is that in order to watch the snow white or the seven dwarfs you need a writer. somebody has to write about the story. so the story is that smart defense is a new story that is coming up. now the problem is smart defense not only reflects the united states cutting off the budgets but actually reflects more, i would say also, the european union perception we need to cuss back basically on everything and my country and myself, we have this small problem than is called financial crisis now. so we need to cut basically on everything. imagine the defense, measure of defense of greece, just cut back in one day say 100 million just like that. now, the problem is that nato is still -- nato should and still is valid and it will be valid for the future to come. for us in southeastern europe, nato is the only credible security organization

those of you who were here from the beginning of the morning, you'll know that my name is ian davis and i'm the director of nato watch. in chicago, the heads of state and governments are likely to approve, so we're led to believe, more than 20 joint projects to share costs of military hardware and to promote what is being defined as a new mind-set in weapons buying known as smart defense. they're also expected to announce a collective forces initiative with measures designed to sustain and increase the links between the armed forces of different nato nations. and together these two initiatives are expected to lay the foundations for nato's future forces to 2020. now, most of this has been, you know, quite heavily signposted in advance over the last 12 months. and i think someone mentioned in the previous session regarding counterterrorism much of it is not new. for those of us who have worked on some of those issues for the last 20 years made attempts at increasing the interoperability and common procurement within europe go back at least to the 1980s and the work of the now-defunct wes

for those of you here from the very beginning this morning, you'll know that my name is ian davis, and i'm the director of nato watch. the, in chicago the heads of state and governments are likely to approve, so we're led to believe, more than 20 joint projects to share costs of military hardware and to promote what is being defined as a new mindset in weapons buy being known as smart defense. they're also expected to announce a collect i have forces -- collective forces initiative with measures designed to sustain and increase the links between the armed forces of different nato nations, and together these two initiatives are expected to lay the foundations for nato's future forces to 2020. now, most of this has been, you know, quite heavily signposted in advance over the last 12 months, and i think someone mentioned in the previous session regarding counterterrorism much of it is not new. for those of us that have worked on some of these issues for the last 20 years, attempts at increasing the interoperability and common procurement within europe go back at least to the 1980s and the

those of you who got to the beginning this morning, you know my name is ian davis.i'm the director of nato watch. in chicago the head state and government facility to approve more than twenty joint projects to share costs of the hardware and promote what has been defined as a new med set in weapons known as -- we are also expected to announce a collective forces initiative with nato's designed and stained to increase the links betweened the arms forces of different nato forces. together these two initiatives are expected to lay the foundations for nato's future forces to 2020. most of this has been, you know, quite heavily sign posted and developed in the last twelve months. and i think someone mentioned in the previous session regarding the much of it is not new. for those who worked on the issues for the last twenty years, attempts at increasing the interoperate rehabilitate within europe going back at least to the 19 0eus and the work the western european union. clearly terrorist a new impee -- but what really fascinated me on the particular issue, really, is the

allow me first of all to think ian davis here from nato watch. paul ingram from basic and chris for their valuable contribution. this is a excellent conference. i thank you for getting us on board. now another good news is that in order to watch the snow white and the seven dwarfs you need a writer. somebody has to write about the story. so the story is that smart defense is a new story that is coming up. now the problem is that smart defense not only reflects the united states cutting off the budgets but actually reflects more i would say also the european perception that we need to cut back basically on everything and my country, myself as well, we have this small problem that is called financial crisis now. so we need to cut basically on everything. imagine the minister of defense in greece cut back in one day 700 million just like that. now the problem is that nato is still, nato should, and still is valid and it will be valid for the future to come. for us in southeastern europe nato is the only credible security organization in the europe a

ian desmond scores. nats retake the lead. but tracee, not good, comes up lame, forced to leave the game. right now, the nats lead 7-4 in the seven enth inning. >>> chris davis the orioles looking to improve against the royals this season. scoreless in the bottom of the second. dav davis deep, drilled to left. the solo shot is chris's eighth homer of the season. orioles take a 1-0 lead. later in the inning, two on, two out for avery. he skies one high to left. alex gordon and jerryd dieson, look out. both went for it, collide, a very scary scene, both down. but gordon on your right, look, he has the ball. he made the catch. and the inning is over. gordon would stay in the game. dieson forced to leave. right now, tied at 3 in the seventh. one side note. adam jones in this game, he's extended his hitting streak to 17 games now, pretty impressive. >>> the duke blue devils. go on, admit it. the words alone muster up feelings of extreme dislike in these parts. one side of the maryland blue and fans think of basketball, the bitter rivalry, so strong, the lack of warmth spans all collegiate sports. and today the two rivals met in the ncaa in the final four. first q