NATO's chief insisted Friday that the military alliance is not the best place to discuss Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's plan for a new European security pact. Speaking after talks between NATO and Russian foreign ministers, Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the broader Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is best adapted for such talks. "The ministers said...
U.S. And Russia Miss Treaty Deadline -- New York Times MOSCOW — The United States and Russia missed their deadline on Friday to adopt a new arms control treaty, though they pledged that they would generally abide by the old one while they continue negotiating. The two sides were stepping up talks in Geneva in hopes of shortly concluding the new agreement, which would cut the world’s two...
Russia is allowing the United States and other NATO governments to transit military supplies through its territory to their contingents in Afghanistan, thereby supplementing the precarious southern supply route through Pakistan. But Russian officials are now hinting they may limit this support unless NATO countries agree to discuss Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's proposal for a new European Security...
Obama’s 2011 Afghan Drawdown Target Splits Lawmakers (Update2) By Viola Gienger and James Rowley Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama’s decision to set a target date for starting U.S. troop withdrawals from Afghanistan divided lawmakers just as he is seeking to consolidate support for his war plan. Obama, outlining his strategy to increase the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan...
ISLAMABAD - While United States President Barack Obama, after months of deliberation, has finally laid out his strategy for Afghanistan, Pakistan, Washington's most important ally in the region, is charting a new course that will place it at odds with the United States. Obama on Tuesday announced the dispatch of 30,000 more US troops to Afghanistan over the next seven months, while also saying he would...
Russia's envoy to NATO said on Monday that he had handed a new treaty on European security drafted by Russia to the alliance's secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
President Dmitry Medvedev has sent a draft treaty on European security to leaders of other countries and international organizations of the Euro-Atlantic space, said the government on Sunday. "Following discussions in various multilateral forms over the past year, the Russian side has drafted a treaty on European security," said the Kremlin in a press release. The president has sent the draft...
On June 5, 2008, the President of Russia put forward an initiative to develop a new pan-European security treaty, the main idea of which is to create in the context of military and political security in the Euro-Atlantic region a common undivided space in order to finally do away with the Cold War legacy. In view of this Dmitry Medvedev suggested formalizing in the international law the principle...
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By the time the US-led international coalition intervened militarily to remove the Taliban regime in October 2001, and the United Nations (UN) drew the Bonn Agreement as the blueprint for a functioning democracy and institutions, Afghanistan had already seen two decades of war: starting with jihad against the Soviet invasion, followed by a civil war between various mujahideen factions and culminating...
NATO teams training Afghans on the front line play crucial role in the war and exit strategy NATO - Government - North Atlantic Treaty Organization - Multilateral - Afghanistan
by Anthony Fenton HALIFAX, Canada - While the world's top military elites gather inside a fortified hotel to discuss NATO's future, protesters question the organization's legitimacy, secrecy, and the lack of democratic debate about the increasingly unpopular war in Afghanistan. read more
Human Security Gateway: All Updates (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The United Nations Security Council today extended for another year the European Union stabilization force (EUFOR) entrusted with ensuring continued compliance by all sides in Bosnia and Herzegovina with the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement that ended the ethnic war there. In a unanimous resolution adopted a day after a UN human rights expert reported that political disputes were still impeding the return...
The UN Security Council extended on Wednesday for another year the European Union stabilization force (EUFOR) mandated to ensure continued compliance with the Dayton Peace Agreement that ended fighting in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1995. Unanimously adopting resolution 1895, the council also welcomed the decision to maintain in the country a headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO),...
In a move that will no doubt further antagonize the Kremlin, the “former” communist state of Poland and the “former” Soviet republic of Lithuania are advocating the inclusion of Ukraine, another “former” Soviet republic, in a tri-national peacekeeping brigade to operate under the command of the United Nations, the European Union, or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization....
Obama and Medvedev Discourse in Moscow - By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal US, Russian Presidents Obama and Medvedev are in Moscow for their first full-fledged summit on major global issues and world is expected to approach the upcoming summit with...
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