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Summary:NATO foreign ministers on September 29 formally appointed Belgium's Foreign Minister Willy Claes Secretary-General of the 16-nation Western alliance. Claes, 55, succeeds Germany's Manfred Woerner, who died of cancer on August 13. The appointment of Claes was a formality after he was endorsed by a meeting of NATO ambassadors in Brussels.
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