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NATO Activities Worry Moscow

Politics | June 30, 2004, Wednesday

NATO Activities Worry Moscow
NATO’s decision to help train Iraqi armed forces set off wrangling among the allies on Tuesday. Still, the Alliance's activities in the Baltic region stirred worries in Moscow. Photo by NATO.
NATO's military activity in the Baltic region has stirred certain worries with Russia.

During Monday's meeting Russian Federation- NATO Council, Russia's Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov expressed his worries about the ongoing military infrastructure building, aerodrome and sea ports modernization in the Baltic region.

The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania joined the Alliance, together with four other ex-communist countries, earlier in April. The new realities following the NATO expansion to the East and the new tasks of the organization were discussed at the two-day Summit in Istanbul.

According to Foreign Minister Lavrov, NATO still prefers to rely on its internal policies to protect its members, rather than relying on joint efforts to measure security in this or that region. He pointed out the necessity of launching the newly adapted agreement concerning regular armed forces in Europe.

The minister also expressed his hopes that NATO will show its initiative in establishing direct dialogue between the agreement's organization of collective security and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

"We truly want trustworthy strategic relations and are ready to withstand new threats arm in arm with NATO," Russia's top diplomat emphasized.

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