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| Norway: Russia to cut all military ties with NATO |
| 2008-08-20 |
| Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out. Russia has informed Norway that it plans to suspend all military ties with NATO, Norway's Defense Ministry said Wednesday. The report comes a day after NATO foreign ministers said they would make further ties with Russia dependent on Moscow making good on a pledge to pull its troops back to pre-conflict positions in Georgia. However, they stopped short of calling an immediate halt to all cooperation. The Nordic country's embassy in Moscow received a telephone call from "a well-placed official in the Russian Ministry of Defense," who said Moscow plans "to freeze all military cooperation with NATO and allied countries," Espen Barth Eide, state secretary with the Norwegian ministry said. Eide told The Associated Press that the Russian official notified Norway it will receive a written note about this soon. He said Norwegian diplomats in Moscow would meet Russian officials on Thursday morning to clarify the implications of the freeze. "It is our understanding that other NATO countries will receive similar notes," Eide said. The ministry said the Russian official is known to the embassy, but Norway declined to provide a name or any further identifying information. ... |
| Posted by:ed |
| #2 INTERFAX > both SOUTH OSSETIA + ABKHAZIA have asked RUSSIA to formally recognize their independence from GEORGIA. It remains to be seen iff such potential recognition from Russ will end-up wid one or both Muslim enclaves being formally RE-INTEGRATED WID RUSSIA PROPER. As per my earlier POSTS ala RUSS FEARS OF FUTURE NUCLEAR ISLAMISM [Russ Center, HIGH BIRTH RATES], + "living space" and hegemony-minded, already nuke-armed CHINA [Russ Far East], RUSSO-GEORGIAN CONFLICT + RECOGN OF SOVEREIGN MUSLIM ENCLAVES = THE POSSIBILITY EXISTS THAT RUSS, IFF NOT VERY CAREFUL, MAY END UP UNILATER CONTRIB TO A NEW DESTABILIZ + BREAK-UP OF ITS OWN POST-COLD WAR SELF [Russ "Kosovo(s)]"??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-08-20 19:37 |
| #1 What's the angle? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2008-08-20 19:02 |