Today, the Chiefs of Defence of the 28 NATO Nations elected Lieutenant General Jan Broeks of The Royal Netherlands Armed Forces as the new Director General of the International Military Staff (DGIMS) at NATO Headquarters. The DGIMS is elected by the NATO Chiefs of Defence to head the Alliance’s International Military Staff for a term of three years. Lieutenant General Broeks will assume his new function in July 2016 when he will succeed the current DGIMS, Air Marshal Sir Christopher Harper, United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force.
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