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Jun 5, 2009

European Security and Defence Forum Launched

By Chatham House

From Chatham House: “A new European Security and Defence Forum based at Chatham House, in partnership with Finmeccanica and with the support of the Italian Istituto Affari Internazionali, has been launched to analyze political and strategic developments in Europe.The Forum will examine what the implications might be for the European Union’s Common Foreign and Security […]

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Jun 5, 2009

Russian NATO envoy says Georgia continues militarization

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti: “Georgia is continuing to militarize even though it clearly has not ruled out using force in regard to its former republics ofAbkhazia and South Ossetia, Russia’s NATO envoy said on Friday.‘We have all the necessary information, including classified, about those who continue to deliver weapons to Georgia and at what volumes,’ Dmitry […]

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Jun 5, 2009

Moscow Struggling to Transform CSTO into a “Russian NATO”

By The Jamestown Foundation

From The Jamestown Foundation: “This week the CSTO defense ministers’ meeting in Moscow ended in failure – there was no agreement on the CORF. The CSTO Secretary-General Nikolai Bordyuzha told journalists that Armenia and Uzbekistan had blocked progress, ‘with Armenia demanding a more concrete date for when the CORF will become operational.'”

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Jun 5, 2009

Azerbaijan: Baku Can Leapfrog over Ukraine, Georgia for NATO Membership

By eurasianet.org

From eurasianet.org: “A senior source within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s Joint Force Command has told EurasiaNet that Azerbaijan stands a better chance of gaining NATO membership in the near future than either Georgia or Ukraine.‘Earlier, the perception in both Brussels [North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] headquarters] and Baku was that Georgia should integrate into […]

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Jun 5, 2009

In war-by-coalition, allies can be `first enemy’

By Associated Press

From Associated Press: “It’s a problem, Craddock said last month, that puts the entire NATO effort in Afghanistan in doubt. He said the individualrestrictions, known in NATO parlance as ‘caveats,’ seem reasonable at first. ‘Then, over time, those start to build on top of each other … and prettysoon what we’ve done is we’ve built […]

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Jun 3, 2009

NATO-Russian Ministers To Meet Jun 27 In Greece

By EasyBourse (AFP)

From EasyBourse (AFP): “‘I can announce that the next ministerial meeting of the NATO-Russia Council will take place on June 27 in Corfu, where a ministerial meeting of the OSCE is being held,’ NATO spokesman James Appathurai said.‘The agenda for the talks has not yet been fixed,’ he said, adding however the meeting would take […]

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Jun 2, 2009

“Russia Should See NATO as Friend Not Foe”

By atlantic-community.org

From atlantic-community.org: “Russia has maintained the Cold War perception that by definition the West confronts Russia. Therefore, the Russian point of view expressed in the new Russian National Security Strategy is that there cannot be any common values and interests and NATO-Russian relations should only be based on mutual respect, which means that NATO should […]

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Jun 2, 2009

Statement by the Secretary General on the elections in South Ossetia

By NATO

From NATO: “NATO does not recognise the elections held on May 31 in South Ossetia. The holding of such elections does not contribute to a peaceful and lasting settlement of the situation in Georgia.The Alliance reiterates its full support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Georgia within its internationally recognised borders.”

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Jun 2, 2009

EU’s Energy Policy a ‘Big Failure’

By BusinessWeek

From BusinessWeek: “‘Energy policy is one of the big failures of the European Union in the last fifty years, particularly bearing in mind that we started out as a coal and steel community. But our growing dependence on Russia is going to increase the pressure for a common energy policy, to improve the internal grids […]

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Jun 1, 2009

U.S. Gives Absolution to Its Allies

By New York Times

Strong critique of the hardening division of labor within NATO. From New York Times: “Another official, from Continental Europe, requesting anonymity, said he considered the circumstances ones that brush the quasi-historical: in his view, the United States has de facto abandoned the idea of asking Europe to go to war while the administration re-Americanizes the […]

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