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Telegraph: Nato 'to invite Russia to join in building missile defence roof for Europe'
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Telegraph: Nato 'to invite Russia to join in building missile defence roof for Europe'http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/7604449/Nato-to-invite-Russia-to-join-in-building-missile-defence-roof-for-Europe.html Nato has plans to invite Russia to join in building a missile defence "roof" over Europe that would see the former Cold War enemies working on a joint defence for the first time.By Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent Published: 6:00AM BST 19 Apr 2010 The move would see Nato and Russia sharing in the development and building of a defence against ballistic missiles launched from rogue nuclear states such as Iran. It would mark the first time that the two sides had joined together in a defence project as Nato seeks to build bridges with its former foe. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Nato secretary-general, supports the plan, which he will put to leaders of the alliance at a summit in Tallinn, Estonia, later this week. Washington has already been in direct talks with Moscow over the idea. Last week, James Appathurai, a Nato spokesman, said: "The Secretary General believes the Russians should be included in a system that covers Europe." “Instead of focusing on treaties or conferences we should have a real European security architecture - one roof that includes the Russians, that is built with the Russians, that is maintained with the Russians. “As a result they would be and feel part of the same security family, inside rather than outside looking in and this would help to address Russian concerns about being about walls being built with them on the outside. “The Secretary General believes missile defence is a way to address in a very concrete way, that average people understand that they’re under one security umbrella, that we all run together.” Foreign Office sources said Britain was supporting Russian involvement in “threat assessment” but it was too early to say if cooperation would go further. A spokesman said: “The UK will continue to support and contribute to the work currently going on in the Nato on missile defence.” The US State Department did not comment but William Burns, the US Under Secretary for Political Affairs, said in a speech in Washington last week: “Missile defence, which has been a source of such suspicion and tension between us, can instead be a transformative opportunity for the United States and Russia. “Our two countries have devoted more study and resources than any other to defending against the threat from ballistic missiles. We have much to learn from each other.” Russia has consistently opposed the idea of building the shield in Eastern Europe, seeing it as an opportunity for the US to place radar and missile sites close to its border that could have an offensive capability. The Bush administration had suggested that Russian military officials should be allowed to conduct inspections at sites for the missile defence shield in Poland and the Czech Republic. President Obama scrapped the idea of building the missile defence shield in former Warsaw Pact countries last September as he sought to “press the reset button” on relations with Russia. The defence shield was initially to be moved to a ship-based system but Romania announced in February that it had agreed to host SM-3 interceptor missiles, while Poland is still expecting to install Patriot missiles. Mr Rasmussen has been pushing for closer cooperation with Russia and asked the Russians to help provide helicopters to aid the war effort in Afghanistan during a visit to Moscow in December. One of the major stumbling blocks has been the presence of Russian troops in the breakaway Georgian republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, which Nato has refused to recognise as independent. Mr Appathurai said there was “no meeting of minds” on the issue, adding: “We are unlikely to have any agreement in the foreseeable future because the positions are very firm and very far apart.” But he said that “Georgia cannot be allowed to paralyse the full spectrum of Nato Russia relations,” adding that the Nato-Russia Council was “back on track” after holding its first meeting since the conflict last December. The US wants the anti-ballistic missile system to cover all of Europe by 2018, Bradley Roberts, deputy assistant secretary of defence told a congressional committee last week.
Caucasus Muslims Department reports that they have already agreed to take part in the world summit of religious leaders to be held in Baku on 26-27 April 2010. The meeting of these two leaders was held in Baku in November of the last year within the framework of the events to mark the 60th jubilee of Sheikhul-Islam Allahshukur Pashazade. During the meeting, the sides agreed to continue such contacts. 1news.az Georgian Times: PACE rapporteurs visit Moscow http://www.geotimes.ge/index.php?m=home&newsid=21269 Matyas Eorsi and David Wilshire from the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) have arrived in Moscow to hold meetings with Russian authorities there. As Russian media reports, within the two-day visit, the rapporteurs of the PACE monitoring committee on Georgia-Russia war will hold meetings with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Russian lawmakers, the members of the Federal Council and the representatives of the prosecutor`s office and the security council of the Russian Federation. The chairperson of the Foreign Relations` Committee of the Russian DUMA says the goal of the visit is to prepare a report with the title `The consequences of the Georgia-Russia War in August 2008`. Rustavi2 2010.04.19 11:40
http://www.mk.ru/politics/article/2010/04/19/470926-v-bishkeke-nachalis-russkie-pogromyi.htmlAn armed mob seizes houses of Russian-speaking residents This morning, about a thousand men armed with sticks and torches, entered the capital of Kyrgyzstan. On the outskirts of Bishkek, the crowd trying to capture the home of Russian-speaking residents. Russian troops stationed in the republic, the situation has not yet intervened. In Bishkek, the crowd came from the village Mayevka, RIA Novosti reported. They say witnesses, Mayevka unruly youths attempted to capture houses of Russian citizens. "They broke into the house of Russian and demanded that the Russian were removed", - said one of the residents of the village. By the way fellas burned car law enforcement agencies. Riots also began in the village of Lenin near Bishkek. Recall that in the last few days the Russians in Kyrgyzstan has repeatedly been attacked. This is highlighted by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Andrei Nesterenko. "A major concern is the fact that in recent days in the Russian Embassy in Bishkek receives numerous applications from citizens of the Russian Federation and Russian compatriots in connection with cases raider grabs and attacks on offices of their companies and homes, the manifestations of consumer nationalism in Bishkek and other parts of Kyrgyzstan" - said Nesterenko. On Thursday, April 15, MK.ru already told that attempts were made to raid the seizure of property of Russian entrepreneurs, in particular, ice plants № 1 located near the city of Tokmok, which has been incorporated militia. In the neighboring village hydro crowd of aggressive young Kyrgyz demanded Russian eviction from their homes. After arriving at the place of detachment squads, which included representatives of different nationalities, the crowd left, but promised to return after the departure of guards. In the region of 4-th city hospital in Bishkek, where there are private houses belonging to Russian-speaking population, a group of young people-Kirghiz bypass the courts and require that the "Russian removed from the Kyrgyz land." At the same time by President Dmitry Medvedev in early April in Kyrgyzstan were airlifted some 150 Russian paratroopers. Their main task - ensuring the safety of 250 officers and warrant officers and 150 conscripts, who serve at the airbase Kant. Nevertheless, it is unclear why the Russian military does not protect the Russian-speaking population of the republic against the excesses of an infuriated mob. RIA: Pogroms began outside Bishkek, the crowd entered the capital of Kyrgyzstan Yüklə 275,69 Kb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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