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May 28, 2009

Euro force, NATO overlap

By Washington Times

From Washington Times: “For example, the two jostled for helicopters badlyneeded for both the NATO mission in Afghanistan and the EU mission in Chad in early 2008.‘[It] turned into a beauty contest between NATO and the EU,’ Mr. Whitney said.”

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May 27, 2009

NATO-Russia Council to Meet at Ambassadors Level in Brussels

By ITAR-TASS

From ITAR-TASS: “The Wednesday meeting of the NATO-Russia Council will be the second after the resumption of its work (April 29) after the South Ossetian conflict. According to Rogozin, “the weather in our relation is far from summer.” This situation has been aggravated “by the absurd decision of the Alliance to expel two Russian career […]

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May 26, 2009

Czech pilots first in action in Baltic

By Baltic Review

From Baltic Review: “Czech pilots of the Jas-39 Gripen fighters who have protected the airspace of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia within NATO since May were used for the first time on Thursday, spokesman David Schreier from the command Air Policing told CTK .They intervened against a civilian plane that violated the no-fly border zone between […]

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May 26, 2009

Discontent Rises Sharply Among Russian Troops

By washingtonpost.com

From washingtonpost.com: “Retired generals and nationalist politicians have accused Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin of scaling back Russia’s military ambitions by essentially giving up on trying to maintain an army capable of confronting NATO.”

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May 26, 2009

Is NATO disrupting Russia ‘reset’?

By Washington Times

Controversial statement by Edward Lozansky, the President of American University in Moscow. From Washington Times: “Russia contributed more to the defeat of the Taliban than any other U.S. ally, including NATO members.”

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May 26, 2009

NATO condemns DPRK nuclear tests

By Xinhua

From Xinhua: “NATO’s decision-making North Atlantic Council on Monday strongly condemned the nuclear and ballistic missile tests by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) on the same day.‘These irresponsible actions by Pyongyang pose a serious challenge to peace, security and stability in the Asia Pacific region and are being universally condemned by the international […]

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May 26, 2009

Israel and NATO: A Good Idea Whose Time Will Never Come

By the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

The insightful Josef Joffe carefully weighs the benefits and costs to both NATO and Israel for proposed membership in the alliance. His analysis is a sharp contrast to the superficial level of discussion about the merits of other nations joining NATO. Too much of the current argument for NATO enlargement relies on the use of […]

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May 26, 2009

Georgia Hands Over Annual Programme to NATO

By Civil Georgia

From Civil Georgia: “Robert Simmons, NATO’s special representative for South Caucasus and Central Asia, received from the Georgian government in Tbilisi on May 25, the country’s Annual National Programme (ANP).The document, which is not public, is, as NATO diplomat said, “a roadmap” for Georgia’s eventual NATO membership.”

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May 22, 2009

At EU-Russia Summit, Signs Of Strategic Division, Not Strategic Partnership

By RFE/RL

From RFE/RL: “Medvedev also tried to press his advantage at the summit by urging the EU to back his plans for a new ‘security architecture’ for Europe. At the press conference, he sharply attacked NATO — which includes as members most EU member states. ‘We have partnership relations, for example, with the North Atlantic bloc. […]

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May 22, 2009

Major military exercise extended

By BBC

From BBC: “Europe’s largest military exercise – Joint Warrior – is to beextended from two to three weeks this October.Held twice a year in spring and autumn, it sees some of the training of Nato armies and navies held in Scotland and in the sea off its coast.”

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