Word: nato
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Albright will also explain her rationale for supporting the recently announced expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Burns says...
SINTRA, Portugal: Now that Russia has reluctantly endorsed NATO expansion, members are turning to what could be the more difficult task of deciding just which countries will be the first to join the alliance. At a meeting in Portugal to determine which new members will be announced July 8-9 in Madrid, NATO foreign ministers are divided on whether the first round of NATO expansion should take in three or five of the eleven countries interested in joining. One senior NATO official said talks are stalling over whether to invite just Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic...
...reach a settlement with Jones rather than face a potentially embarrassing deposition in the case. The two sides were close to an agreement two years ago until negotiations collapsed, reportedly over whether Clinton would make some sort of apology. In Paris for Russia's signing of the NATO expansion agreement, the President had no comment. Although his attorney Robert Bennett told reporters a settlement was unlikely, TIME's Karen Tumulty reports that behind the scenes, Bennett is pushing for a deal: "The pressure is mounting on Clinton to settle, and most of that is coming from Bennett himself...
These are important questions, but with the U.S. a virtual foreign policy-free zone lately, there has been almost no debate outside the diplomatic and academic community about NATO extension. There will be more after the July NATO summit, and it should be thorough. Critics will question whether the U.S. should get more deeply involved in Europe. They will focus, properly, on the cost of expansion--$35 billion overall, according to the White House, vs. the $125 billion Congressional Budget Office estimate--and argue that defending London is one thing, but Budapest? Proponents of expansion will counter yes, Budapest...
...NATO enlargement is Bill Clinton's top foreign policy priority for his second term, the overseas equivalent of the balanced-budget deal just reached. He will get this one too. There has been some criticism, including from George Kennan, the 93-year-old dean of U.S. Sovietologists, who is worried that expansion could incite anti-Western factions in Russia. But there is currently no national figure around whom opposition is likely to coalesce. Congress backs expansion. As is often the case, conviction on Capitol Hill is wider than it is deep, but in this case two added factors undergird support...