Word: nato
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...need to sort of gin up the collective spirit of Europe," he said last week. He will also try to reassure the Central European states that he is concerned about their security while at the same time soothing the apprehensions of Yeltsin and his generals about an encroaching NATO...
Clinton's first priority at the NATO summit is to gain final approval for his Partnership for Peace, which will provide an option for any former Soviet republic, Warsaw Pact member or non-NATO West European state to join in limited military cooperation, including training and exercises, with NATO's 16 members. In Warsaw last week General John Shalikashvili, the Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said NATO will be ready for joint military exercises with Polish forces as early as this year. But while strengthening links, the Partnership will fall far short of full membership...
...leading NATO states like Britain and France are in no hurry to take Poland or Hungary into the alliance, which is above all a military pact. Outgoing Defense Secretary Aspin says he is "uncomfortable with extending security guarantees to new countries while we're cutting the defense budget." If Poland were admitted to NATO, "we would be saying that an attack on Poland would be the same as an attack on New York." A threat to use nuclear weapons to back that up might not be credible, and a conventional defense of Poland against invasion from the east would cost...
...Already NATO has ducked the most horrific ethnic fight on the Continent -- the one going on in the former Yugoslavia. But that bloody ghost is thrusting itself to the table in Brussels. The holiday season was a particularly violent one in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with all sides violating an agreed truce and killing 106 civilians. Completely fed up with the futility of his assignment, Belgian Lieut. General Francis Briquemont resigned as commander of U.N. peacekeepers in Bosnia. French General Jean Cot, chief of ( the 30,000 blue helmets in the former Yugoslavia, spoke out about his troops' "humiliation" and compared...
Though Clinton would rather not hear about Europe's major security failure at the NATO summit he has convened this week, the French government has decided to raise it. France, which has suffered the deaths of 18 soldiers and the wounding of 260 others in the past 18 months, was planning to ask the U.S. to back a proposal that would authorize the U.N. commander to call in air strikes by NATO planes. He would do this at his own initiative if he believed they were needed to protect peacekeepers from attack by the warring parties. "All we are trying...