Martin Bútora, member of the Slovak Atlantic Commission’s International Council and Central European Strategic Council, former Slovak ambassador to the U.S.A and an Honorary President of the Institute for Public Affairs, has become a member of a specialist team established by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
The team is supposed to draw up proposals for strengthening the transatlantic ties of the Alliance. Butora appreciates his appointment by Rasmussen, who will be replaced as secretary-general on October by Jens Stoltenberg, of Norway. “After the events that took place in Ukraine, the transatlantic alliance, as well as our voice in NATO takes on a particular significance. The September summit of the Alliance will decide on its future after leaving Afghanistan, and it will be one of the most important in the history of NATO,” said Butora, who will be Advisor to incoming president Andrej Kiska after he takes office in mid-June.
