NATO Calls for "Urgent" Solution to Soviet-Era Dnestr Problem
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NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer on Thursday called on the European Union, the United States, Russia and Ukraine to help find a solution to the urgent problem of Moldova s breakaway Dnestr region.
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The opposition Liberal Democratic group in the Seimas, concerned about the imminent classifying of the archives of the KGB, has asked President Valdas Adamkus to intervene in this matter.
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NATO's top soldier Tuesday called on the Alliance's 26 member countries to create a single budget for the operations of a planned rapid reaction force.
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President Vladimir Putin&#39;s warning  that Russia would aim missiles at Europe if Washington pursued  its plan to build a missile defence shield near Russian borders  is &quot;unhelpful and unwelcome,&quot; NATO said on Monday.
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The United States urged NATO on Wednesday to produce plans to take control of all military operations in Afghanistan, possibly from next year, in a call which spooked some of its alliance partners.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates will press NATO nations on Thursday to provide military and police trainers for Afghanistan and also plans to express interest in Russia's offer to cooperate on missile defense.
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WIESBADEN, Germany  - Germany called on Friday for talks on creating a NATO missile defense shield for Europe, a day after the United States vowed to press ahead with its system without alliance approval.
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MOSCOW, Feb. 20 -- An increasingly angry dispute over U.S. plans to deploy a missile defense system in Central Europe is adding strain to already fragile U.S.-Russian relations.
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Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov on Saturday criticized NATO's expansion into three former Soviet states on the Baltic Sea and warned that NATO warplanes flying patrols over those countries create a risk of accidental incidents.
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"It seems to me that the Americans are starting to better understand our concerns"  NOORDWIJK, Netherlands : NATO appeared to make little progress Thursday in narrowing differences with Russia over plans by the United States to install a missile defense system in Eastern Europe, even after ... via International Herald Tribune
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NOORDWIJK, Netherlands  - NATO defense ministers agreed on Thursday to scale down the alliance's ambition to keep a 25,000-strong rapid reaction force on standby, ready to intervene in crises around the world.
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NATO said on Monday it was very concerned at Russia's decision to suspend participation in a landmark treaty limiting armed forces in post-Cold War Europe amid growing tension over a U.S. missile shield.
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Emergency talks on a key arms control  pact began in restrained fashion on Tuesday with Russia, the  United States and NATO states all at pains not to escalate  East-West confrontation, the U.S. and Russian delegations said.
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The US president says a Europe missile shield is an "urgent" need as his defence chief hints at a delay.
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Russia on Wednesday rejected a NATO offer to hold a special conference on a key European arms pact and instead proposed working on a new agreement, local news agencies quoted a top defense ministry official as saying.
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NATO planners gave a withering assessment of the West's defense arsenal on Tuesday, saying their forces are sometimes unable to talk to each other on the ground because costly defense systems are not compatible.
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NATO has postponed a meeting due on Thursday between its foreign ministers and their Ukrainian counterpart but will seek early talks with a foreign minister of a "new and legitimate" Ukraine government, NATO sources said.