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Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Dutch academic, politician, and diplomat, 11th Secretary General of NATO

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Jaap de Hoop Scheffer

11th Secretary General of NATO

Jakob Gijsbert "Jaap" de Hoop Scheffer is a Dutch retired politician, jurist and diplomat who served as the eleventh Secretary General of NATO from January 2004 to August 2009. A member of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA), which he led from March 1997 to October 2001, he…
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Secretary General of NATO

Diplomatic head of NATO

The secretary general of NATO is the chief civil servant of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), an intergovernmental military alliance with 32 member states. The officeholder is an international diplomat responsible for coordinating the workings of the alliance,…
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