George Robertson Baron Robertson of Port Ellen Politician
George Islay MacNeill Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen KT, GCMG, FRSA, FRSE, PC (born 12 April 1946) is a British Labour Party politician who was the tenth Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, between October 1999 and early January 2004; he succeeded Javier Solana in that position. He served as Defence Secretary for the United Kingdom from 1997 to 1999, before taking up his NATO position and becoming a life peer as Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, of Islay in Argyll and Bute.
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| office | Member of Parliament Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland Secretary of State for Defence (Hamilton (1978–1997) Secretary General of NATO for Hamilton South |
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