Deputy Commander STRIKFORNATO, Rear Admiral James Morley, and the STRIKFORNATO team, including Denmark’s Senior Nation Representative, Commander Stefan Thomsen, received the Danish Ambassador to Portugal, Her Excellency Maria Nilaus Tarp, at Headquarters in Oeiras, Portugal.
During the visit, the Danish Ambassador to Portugal had the opportunity to receive an overview of Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO capabilities, roles, missions, exercises and vigilance activities, at STRIKFORNATO’S Joint Operations Centre and Flag Conference Room.
Maria Nilaus Tarp assumed the position of Ambassador of Denmark to Portugal, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe by September 2021, after serving in illustrious positions of Denmark’s Government, such as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as Deputy Director of the Department for Public Diplomacy, Communication and Press. She is actually Member of the Board of Denmark SOS Children’s village, also since 2021.
STRIKFORNATO is a rapidly deployable and scalable headquarters, under the operational command of SACEUR, capable of planning and executing full spectrum joint maritime operations including maritime Ballistic Missile Defence, primarily through integration of U.S. and other nation’s carrier and amphibious forces into NATO operations to provide assurance, deterrence, and collective defence for the Alliance.