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	Jaap de Hoop Scheffer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (legally Jakob Gijsbert de Hoop Scheffer) (born April 3, 1948) is a Dutch politician who is the 11th NATO Secretary General.
		Born in Amsterdam, De Hoop Scheffer studied law at the University of Leiden.
		The new prime minister Balkenende appointed De Hoop Scheffer as foreign minister in his short-lived first cabinet, a position he retained in the second Balkenende cabinet after the elections of January 22, 2003.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jaap_de_Hoop_Scheffer (465 words)

	Jaap de Hoop Scheffer at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (born April 3, 1948) is the 11th NATO Secretary General and a Dutch politician.
		In 2003, foreign policy of the Netherlands, which was determined in a large part by Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and Jan Peter Balkenende, was characterized by its approval of the United States in its war against Iraq, although its formulation ("political" but not "military" support) gave it an ambivalent and vague character.
		Jaap de Hoop Scheffer became the 11th NATO Secretary General on January 5, 2004 after Lord Robertson, who held the post from 1999 until 2003.
	www.wiki.tatet.com /Jaap_de_Hoop_Scheffer.html (452 words)

	GlobalFreePress- Dep. INN - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jaap De Hoop Scheffer told a breakfast meeting with the Council on Foreign Relations in New York that the European way of thinking had not caught up with the American perspective that crystallized after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
		De Hoop Scheffer wouldn't elaborate, but said the so-called "perception gap" was one reason that relations between NATO allies had been strained in recent years.
		De Hoop Scheffer cited the Nov. 2 killing of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, allegedly by an Islamic extremist, as evidence of terrorism's spread to places once believed safe.
	inn.globalfreepress.com /modules/news/article.php?storyid=1017 (240 words)

	NATO Who's who?: NATO SecGen Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
		Jakob Gijsbert (Jaap) de Hoop Scheffer was born in Amsterdam on 3 April 1948.
		Mr De Hoop Scheffer was elected to the House of Representatives of the States General for the Christian Democratic Alliance (CDA) in June 1986.
		Mr De Hoop Scheffer was the Chairman-in-Office of that organisation until 3 December 2003.
	www.nato.int /cv/secgen/scheffer-e.htm (580 words)

	Web exclusive: Interview with NATO's Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
		JAAP DE HOOP SCHEFFER: Well we know what happened to intelligence in the run up to the Iraqi war, I do not think personally that that was the main argument for the government to support the invasion of Iraq but NATO was split on the matter as you know.
		JAAP DE HOOP SCHEFFER: I think it’s much more than a token involvement if you realise the training session we are running is aiming for 1000 officers trainers, higher of leadership of the Iraqi forces a year, inside Iraq and 500 outside Iraq.
		JAAP DE HOOP SCHEFFER: Well, NATO is not and does not have the ambition to be the world’s policeman, NATO is not a global cop, but who would have dared to predict 5 years ago that NATO would be running a UN-mandated peacekeeping operation in Afghanistan.
	sunday.ninemsn.com.au /sunday/political_transcripts/article_1758.asp (2539 words)

	[ www.azadiradio.org ]
		Yesterday, de Hoop Scheffer told the Council on Foreign Relations, an independent policy institute, that extra NATO battalions will be committed to help safeguard parliamentary elections due to be held in the spring.
		De Hoop Scheffer did not say how many new forces would be committed to the country.
		De Hoop Scheffer described NATO's operations in Afghanistan as a "moderate success." But he warned that without deeper involvement by the international community in the fight against drug production and drug trafficking in Afghanistan, NATO's ability to ensure the country's stability will be limited.
	www.azadiradio.org /en/specialreports/2004/11/178E3B84-D83B-42A7-BCF0-7F39A5BFF8B5.ASP (561 words)

	Nato Review
		Jakob Gijsbert de Hoop Scheffer was born in Amsterdam in 1948, the son of a Catholic mother and a father who converted to Catholicism and was General Secretary of the Stockbrokers’ Association.
		De Hoop Scheffer’s interest in the foreign service was in part inspired by his uncle and namesake, a career diplomat who became Dutch ambassador to NATO in the 1980s.
		De Hoop Scheffer became a member of parliament in 1986 with the support of Van den Broek, Van Agt and others with, according to insiders, the “secret dream” of becoming a minister himself one day.
	www.nato.int /docu/review/2003/issue4/english/profile.html (3414 words)

	News @ Serbian Unity Congress \| Interview: NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer Speaks With RFE/RL, Radio Free ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		De Hoop Scheffer: Well, you must realize first of all that if you look at SFOR, the present operation, 85 percent of the forces are European.
		De Hoop Scheffer: I can't give you numbers on NATO personnel, but I can tell you that the EU is taking over responsibility for the mission, but that NATO will go on having a number of responsibilities.
		De Hoop Scheffer: But you know in wars the last battle is the most important one.
	news.suc.org /bydate/2004/July_16/7.html (1168 words)

	New NATO Secretary-General Discusses Alliance's Changing Role During Washington Visit
		Jaap de Hoop Scheffer says the Atlantic alliance must confront challenges together but warns that there are limits to NATO's military capabilities.
		Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, a former Dutch foreign minister, is making his first visit to the United States since becoming NATO's secretary-general on January 5.
		de Hoop Scheffer reminded his audience that NATO is a consensus-based alliance.
	www.iwar.org.uk /news-archive/2004/01-30.htm (513 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Profile: Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
		All Mr De Hoop Scheffer's diplomatic skills will now be called on as he steers the alliance through a key part in its history.
		Mr De Hoop Scheffer was born in Amsterdam in 1948.
		Mr De Hoop Scheffer was elected as a Christian Democrat member of parliament in 1986, and headed the parliamentary party for four years before becoming foreign minister in 2002 in a coalition which included the anti-immigration Pim Fortuyn List party.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/3130410.stm (546 words)

	Keyword (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Career diplomat Jaap de Hoop Scheffer is likely to take over the NATO reins in December after Secretary-General George Robertson steps down at the end of his four-year term Although the Netherlands hasn't even formally proposed Jaap de Hoop Scheffer for NATO secretary-general, the cards seem to be falling the foreign minister's way.
		On Wednesday, Mr De Hoop Scheffer said he was "exceptionally disappointed" by the decision on the part of...
		DUTCH Foreign Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer is unhappy with a Franco-German proposal to disarm Iraq circulating in the media, his spokesman told AFP.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=dehoopscheffer (1475 words)

	Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Jaap de Hoop Scheffer is escorted into the Pentagon by Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz.
		Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Jaap de Hoop Scheffer is escorted into the Pentagon by Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz.
		Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (left) is escorted into the Pentagon by Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz (right) on Sept. 2, 2003.
		Scheffer and Wolfowitz will meet to discuss a range of security issues of interest to both nations.
	www.defenselink.mil /photos/Sep2003/030902-D-9880W-004.html (62 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		DE HOOP SCHEFFER: Well, it has a very personal element for me, because I was in the Netherlands then as a member of parliament.
		DE HOOP SCHEFFER: Well, it is clear that in France and the Netherlands, that people have shown that they do not want this constitutional treaty.
		DE HOOP SCHEFFER: Well, that is an element, as I have heard people saying, indeed, and read in European newspapers.
	edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0506/03/nfcnn.01.html (6489 words)

	COMMENTS
		No, its Jaap de Hoop Scheffer instead - and surely it's time here for a survey of the Dutch press to find out how the thinking-class in Holland is reacting to one of its own being picked out for such a crucial international position.
		He might be a classic foreign policy fanatic, but it's clear that De Hoop Scheffer got his new job (or his job as of next January) because the US has valued his loyalty through the years.
		De Hoop Scheffer is the opposite, which is good because, according to De Volkskrant, he needs to lose any picture of himself as a representative of the Dutch and get to work tackling NATO's problems with a wide approach.
	www.eurosavant.com /comments.php?id=P130_0_1_0 (1467 words)

	Dutchman De Hoop Scheffer takes on NATO's top job (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dutchman Jaap de Hoop Scheffer began work as NATO secretary general Monday insisting the alliance must focus on expanding its peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan before considering a military role in Iraq.
		De Hoop Scheffer said ensuring the smooth integration of the newcomers would be another priority along with NATO's drive for military modernization; closer cooperation with Russia; and efforts to build defense ties with nations in the Middle East and North Africa.
		In the Balkans, De Hoop Scheffer said the recent electoral success of hardline nationalists in Serbia was unlikely to affect NATO's plans to hand over its peacekeeping mission in Bosnia to a European Union command.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/01/05/international0515EST0466.DTL (676 words)

	Government.nl - De Hoop Scheffer horrified at attack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Minister of Foreign Affairs Jaap de Hoop Scheffer was 'horrified' to hear of the attack on UN headquarters in Baghdad on 19 August.
		Mr de Hoop Scheffer said, 'The United Nations are in Iraq to represent the world community.
		They are there to help the Iraqi people.' He also said 'Sergio Vieira de Mello, the UN Secretary General's special representative who was killed in the attack, was "one of the United Nations" most capable diplomats'.
	www.government.nl /actueel/nieuwsarchief/2003/08August/20/42_20361.jsp (161 words)

	BakuTODAY.net - NATO Wants Greater Political Role for Alliance
		NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer says NATO needs to take on a greater political role and should modernize military capabilities for new types of missions the organization is likely to face.
		de Hoop Scheffer said it is essential to take part in missions in Afghanistan, the Balkans, and Iraq if the security of citizens is to be guaranteed.
		de Hoop Scheffer also said modern military capabilities are required for the new types of mission.
	www.bakutoday.net /view.php?d=11159 (596 words)

	De Hoop Scheffer Showcases NATO's New Military Capabilities
		De Hoop Scheffer referred to the NRF as the flagship of the Alliance's military transformation, and "a hothouse of ideas in which advanced technologies and doctrines flourish."
		The secretary general also announced the opening, two days ago, of a state-of-the-art training center in Poland by the Allied Command Transformation, which he called a "driving force behind NATO's military adaptation." The command, headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia, is in charge of standardization, training, concept development, and experimentation.
		In opening the exhibition, de Hoop Scheffer said these demonstrations "of what we in NATO can achieve by working together multinationally" filled him with great pride and great confidence in the future.
	www.iwar.org.uk /news-archive/2004/06-27.htm (324 words)

	USATODAY.com - NATO secretary-general visits Baghdad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The unannounced visit was de Hoop Scheffer's second trip to Iraq.
		Meanwhile, NATO has been training a small group of senior Iraqi military officers for more than a year and is planning to expand that mission to include a staff academy to train the higher ranks of the Iraq's armed forces.
		De Hoop Scheffer hoisted a NATO flag over the alliance's training mission headquarters in Baghdad and said the mission sent an important message.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2005-09-27-nato-baghdad_x.htm?csp=36 (413 words)

	Powell, de Hoop Scheffer Discuss Expanded NATO Role (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jaap de Hoop Scheffer is new as Secretary General, but not really new to the State Department, because I have gotten to know him very well during the time he served as the distinguished Foreign Minister of the Netherlands, and we got a lot of work done.
		And so, Jaap, I congratulate you on assumption of office of the greatest alliance the world has ever known, NATO, an alliance that is continuing to grow, as we will see later this year with the accession of more members of the alliance, an alliance that has found a new mission, a new vision.
		It was a pleasure to be here again now in my new capacity, indeed, as Secretary General of an alliance which is second to none, which is the unique political and also security organization in the world, at the moment, expanding and enlarging its responsibility in Afghanistan.
	www.useu.be /Categories/Defense/Jan2904PowellNATOHead.html (1505 words)

	Government.nl - De Hoop Scheffer to become Secretary General of NATO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A meeting of NATO ambassadors appointed Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, as NATO's next Secretary General.
		He believes that De Hoop Scheffer's extraordinary personal qualities are the main reason he was chosen.
		He added that the appointment is a sign of recognition for the important role that the Netherlands plays in global affairs: 'The Netherlands has become a builder of bridges, both within Europe and across the Artlantic.
	www.government.nl /actueel/nieuwsarchief/2003/09September/22/42_21253.jsp?ComponentID=21253&SourcePageID=7496 (170 words)

	Online Magazine - Civil Georgia
		Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said that he is a realist and an optimist in this regard, but added that he will “not talk about the dates” of Georgia’s possible accession into NATO.
		Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said that his trip to the South Caucasus states is “bringing into practice” the NATO Istanbul Summit decisions over focusing on the Central Asia and Caucasus regions.
		Jaap de Hoop Scheffer reiterated NATO’s support for Georgia’s territorial integrity and called for a peaceful solution to the Abkhazian and South Ossetian conflicts.
	www.civil.ge /eng/article.php?id=8261 (506 words)

	SudanTribune article : NATO considers help for African Union force in Darfur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		African Union (AU) commission chairman Alpha Oumar Konare (L) addresses a joint news conference with NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer at the end of a meeting at the NATO headquarters in Brussels May 17, 2005.
		"The African Union is in the lead," said NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer after meeting with Konare at alliance headquarters.
		De Hoop Scheffer insisted the alliance would not impose itself.
	www.sudantribune.com /article.php3?id_article=9633 (425 words)

	The Epoch Times \| NATO Ready to Expand Peacekeeping Force to Western Afghanistan
		The mission of the NATO peacekeepers is to provide security in the war-scarred country and to help extend the authority of the Afghan government of President Hamid Karzai to outlying provinces.
		Finally, after repeated frustrations, NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer was able to announce Thursday that the alliance had secured the necessary troop commitments.
		So Secretary-General De Hoop Scheffer now says NATO's goal is to get a firm commitment from each of its 26 members that they will contribute to the training mission in any way they can before a NATO summit later this month.
	english.epochtimes.com /news/5-2-10/26377.html (378 words)

	UKRINFORM: news from Ukraine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		On Monday, April 19 Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Kostyantyn Gryshchenko met with NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer.
		As Jaap de Hoop Scheffer noted, the issue of what level the Ukraine - NATO Commission's session will be held at within the framework of the NATO Summit in Istanbul remains open.
		Jaap de Hoop Scheffer articulated his high opinion about the level of strategic partnership relations between NATO and Ukraine, and stressed that the Ukraine - NATO Action Plan for 2004 and the 2004 Target Plan incorporate diverse aspects, which allows to better this partnership.
	www.ukremb.com /news/news/040419-17.html (322 words)

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