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...Carne Ross talks about how he resigned from the British Foreign Office in 2004 after Britain's decision to go to war in Iraq proved more than he could abide in a frustrating 15-year diplomatic career, the phone rings. "That'll be Kosovo," Ross says. Probably calling to say thanks...
...Macedonia, or, more euphoniously, FYROM. Instead, Scheffer announced a classic fudge. Albania and Croatia got their invitations, but Macedonia must wait until "a mutually acceptable solution" to its dispute with Greece has been found. Scheffer suggested this would be "very soon." "It's only delayed, it will happen," said Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown after the decision was announced. Since the dispute has lasted since the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, and no resolution was found under the pressure of the summit, nobody is placing bets on when that will...
...have always told Vladimir Putin, my friend, that it's in his interest that there be democracies on her border, and that he doesn't need to fear NATO; he ought to welcome NATO because NATO is a group of nations dedicated to peace," said Bush in Bucharest. Britain, Canada and a number of other member states agreed with his analysis. But Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel, whose relations have recently appeared strained, opposed MAP for Georgia and Ukraine. As the French President put it, he and Merkel "manifested publicly our perfect accord," which is grounded in their concern...
...concerns over a fracture in the Alliance. Canada has threatened to withdraw its forces from the dangerous zone around Kandahar; the French move should allow the U.S. to redeploy more troops from the east to Kandahar and other hot spots. For Air Chief Marshall Jock Stirrup, the head of Britain's armed forces, this "sends a very important signal ... It's not just that the French are sending more troops, but it is to a very difficult area...
...Britain, the second largest contributor of troops to Afghanistan, proposed a new initiative at the summit: A so-called trust fund to encourage countries that are not contributing troops to instead donate money and equipment to NATO operations. On Thursday, Prime Minister Brown revealed that 18 new helicopters and 8 nations had declared themselves ready to contribute to the fund. "This will become known as the burden-sharing summit," said Brown. That, at least, should be a name delegates can agree...