Word: nato
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...European troops from intervening in Chad's internal conflict, on this mission the military has "an appropriate mandate allowing the use of armed force if necessary." That makes this the most ambitious mission since the E.U.'s 7,000-strong Operation Althea in Bosnia, which took over from NATO mission in 2004. "It's very significant, and about as big as it gets," said Tomas Valasek, a director at London-based think-tank the Centre for European Reform (CER). "And unlike Bosnia, it not in Europe...
...Their primary agenda is ousting Western forces from Afghanistan, and they have made clear their intention to attack all local allies of the U.S. and NATO. That makes the Pakistani government a prime target, and U.S. and Nato commanders in Afghanistan have noted that al-Qaeda and Taliban forces in the border areas appear to have shifted their focus away from Afghanistan to striking targets in Pakistan...
...Whatever that path is, Turkey, a member of NATO and supposedly NATO's frontline against Iran, doesn't bother even playing the sanctions game. Prime Minister Erdogan said last week that Turkey would not be talked out of going ahead with the natural gas deals it has already signed with Iran. He told reporters in Spain, "Iran and Turkey are two friendly countries, and Turkey will continue to import gas from Iran...
During the 1999 war, NATO compelled Serbian security forces to pull out of Kosovo, which was then placed under United Nations rule. Kosovo's provisional government, dominated by the province's mostly ethnic Albanian population, is expected to proclaim independence within the next few weeks. Most European Union members and the United States have announced that they will back Kosovo as an independent state, despite fierce opposition by Serbia and Russia...
...costs and the benefits of this installation," he said. The Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza reported Wednesday that Washington may be willing to entertain security guarantees, but remains "cool" to the idea of providing Poland with Patriot or similar air defense batteries because this might interfere with plans for a NATO-wide system...