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NATO troubled by Bush endorsement of Ukraine-Georgia
Big News Network (UPI)
Wednesday 2nd April, 2008
US President George Bush has expressed confidence that NATO will endorse a missile defence system for Europe.
Speaking of the missile system that Russia has opposed, Mr Bush said he was optimistic he was attending “a very successful summit”.
The summit has been troubled by divisions, most notably opposition from France and Germany to giving Ukraine and Georgia a plan for eventually joining NATO.
President Bush indicated the meeting was very open to the membership question, as any NATO member could oppose it.
Meanwhile, Poland's Defence Minister Bogdan Klich rapped some NATO states for their lack of interest in the deployment of a missile shield in Europe.
He said: 'I don't see sufficient political or financial will in some NATO states to put in place a continental missile system that would complement the US missile shield.'
Mr Klich did not identify the countries he was referring to.
Washington is in talks with Warsaw to install a missile shield consisting of 10 silos on Polish soil and a high-power tracking radar in the neighbouring Czech Republic by 2012.
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| By John Bardakch, 04-03-08, 01:32 AM |
NATO troubled by Bush endorsement of Ukraine-GeorgiaHello. If we read this news at newspaper twenty years ago we would say probably this a 1April joke.But Mr. Gorbachev’s radical regime finished and unbelieve indepentences.Broken Berlin wall and new many countries in East Europe,Caphcasian ,middle-Asian, some of the them are Ukraine and Georgia.We know Georgia is Stalin’s born places.Ukraine like second Russia.Old Varshova countries are now Nato members.Maybe this sitiuation are bitter for especialy fanatic communists (revizoinizm)but now these countries prefer to do .Peoples want more freedom.But this idea can be dangerous for global conditions.Because freedoms can clash sometimes and give big damages both of them.Human union is not dream but now our world general situations are not ready for this utopia. We wish this pink days continue but historical enmeties commercial,politic advatentages will be handicap to these optimist activities probably.Acording to Bible this developments will climp to extreme position unfortunately(Hebrew :Harmagedhon).(you can look for more information : www.watchtower.org )This is inevitable but for faithful people is going to begin for earthly paradise.We wish world peoples will live beter conditions until this recently end and we will be one of them too...Deep regards to dear readers... |
| By waltky, 05-09-08, 02:56 AM |
| Mebbe time to get Charlie Wilson outta retirement...
;)
U.S. worries Russia-Georgia dispute may get violent
Thu May 8, 2008 - The United States fears there could be bloodshed in the dispute between Russia and ex-Soviet Georgia, a State Department official said on Thursday, as he urged Moscow to stop intimidating its southern neighbor.
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Acting Undersecretary of State Dan Fried said he does not believe the Russians want to go to war over Georgia’s breakaway regions, and is sure that the Caucasus nation does not either. “But what we fear is that with so much tension, so many armed people in close proximity, and a record of provocations, that there could be a spark setting off a wider problem, and suddenly you’re dealing with deaths and shooting and an out-of-control incident," he told a hearing of Helsinki Commission on Capitol Hill. “We worry about that a great deal," Fried said.
He echoed warnings from the White House a day earlier to Moscow to back down from increasingly provocative actions supporting the separatists in Georgia’s breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Georgian authorities say war has only been narrowly averted in recent days. Abkhazia and South Ossetia threw off Tbilisi’s control in the early 1990s. Georgia wants to bring them back under its influence and resents the support and help Russia has offered them for years.
Recently the Abkhazia dispute has flared as Moscow sent more troops to the region and Abkhazian authorities reported shooting down several Georgian “spy” drones. On Thursday they said they had shot down another one. Georgia denies this had happened. “Provocations on all sides must stop," Fried said. “Russia needs to help put the Abkhazia dispute on a negotiating track, not use it to intimidate its smaller neighbor."
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