Tension mounts in Strasbourg as NATO summit approaches
Published: 17 March, 2009, 12:10
The French authorities have revealed more about the unprecedented security measures for the NATO conference from 3rd-5th April.
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16.03.2009, 18:10
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy has gone against the late General Charles de Gaulle’s decision in 1966 to remove France from NATO, but that move promises to be something of a public relations disaster.
Barack Obama’s administration sees NATO as the nucleus for a global organization of democracies that will eventually replace the United Nations, believes an influential Russian newspaper.
NATO foreign ministers have agreed at a meeting in Brussels to resume formal ties with Russia. Relations between Moscow and the alliance were suspended after Russia repelled Georgia's attack on South Ossetia last August.
The French government has apparently woken up to the risk of holding NATO's 60th Anniversary celebrations in Strasbourg – the European capital of human rights and unity.
From April 3 to 5, 40 heads of state and government leaders, including U.S. President Barack Obama, will come to Strasbourg and Baden-Baden to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the NATO alliance.
President Sarkozy’s decision to bring France fully back into NATO is making waves in French politics.
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In this exclusive interview to RT Politics the well-known Russian economist Mikhail Delyagin points out that many suggestions advocated by American experts are actually a repetition of what the Soviet Union used to have.
RT Politics Interview
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President Dmitry Medvedev has said that he will attend the Russia-NATO summit due to be held in Lisbon, Portugal next month.
The Russian president's proposal for a new pan-European security treaty could work if agreed upon, says the chairman of the Munich Security Conference.
Published: 17 March, 2009, 12:10
The French authorities have revealed more about the unprecedented security measures for the NATO conference from 3rd-5th April.