BRUSSELS
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen will stay in office for another year so that he can be in office when the NATO Summit in South Wales takes place on September 4-5, 2014.
Rasmussen will be in office until September 30, 2014 to conduct summit arrangements and to head the meeting which will be held at presidential level.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen became the 12th NATO Secretary General on 1 August 2009, succeeding Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, who held the post from 2004 until 2009.
During the final selection process of Rasmussen's candidacy, only Turkey remained opposed to him because of his handling of the cartoon episode in 2005, when the publication in some Danish newspapers of cartoons of the Prophet Mohamed caused violent protests.
Another major element of Turkey's opposition was Denmark's tolerance of Roj TV, which is an tv channel affiliated to the outlawed PKK.
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