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tukkersterror
30-04-06, 11:06
Na eerdere harde woorden van Rusland, die geen Navo basis wilde in en rond hun land, zijn dit heel milde woorden van Kokoshin.
Nog een week en we worden met open armen ontvangen en hebben we een hoofdkantoor in het kremlin te Moscow. :hihi:



Russia Criticizes NATO Plans to Deploy U.S. Bases in East Europe
Created: 30.04.2006 12:16 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 12:16 MSK, 29 minutes ago


MosNews


The deployment of a contingent of U.S. Armed Forces in East Europe under NATO auspices would run against the spirit of the relations and understandings Moscow and Washington have had since the end of the Cold War, a Russia lawmaker quoted by Xinhua said Saturday.

“The action undertaken by the U.S. would destabilize the situation in East Europe and would not promote truly joint efforts in fighting both terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction,” Andrei Kokoshin, chairman of the State Duma’s CIS Affairs Committee, was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying, commenting on the U.S. decision to deploy bases in Bulgaria and Romania.

NATO’s eastward expansion of the sort would trump the common interests of international security, Kokoshin said. “I am sure that the U.S. actions will raise negative attitudes in the majority in Russian society and in many other countries,” he said.

The deployment of U.S. military bases in Southeast Europe is unlikely to improve efficiency in international efforts to fight terrorism, Kokoshin said.

“The intensification of these efforts should have been achieved in an absolutely different way, without deploying an additional contingent of U.S. troops but on the basis of relevant agreements with all parties concerned, including Russia,” Kokoshin said.

“In conversations with the leaders of the Soviet Union and Russia, the Western countries, including the United States, France,and Germany, promised not to deploy any NATO contingents in East European countries. However, we see that these assurances have not been supported by practical deeds,” he said.

The State Duma regularly discusses various responses to such decisions by the United States, Kokoshin said. “In particular, (the parliamentarians) regularly raise the issue of withdrawing from the Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty,” he said.

Besides, NATO will help rebuild an airbase in Amari in Estonia, the Estonian Defense Ministry press service said on Friday.

NATO will invest about 500 million Estonian crowns ($40 million) in the reconstruction, which is an element of the NATO Security Investment Program, it said.

The base is located outside the capital city of Tallinn. It was earlier used as a strategic airfield by the Soviet Air Force when Estonia was part of the Soviet Union.

Spoetnik
30-04-06, 13:38
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