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Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 6:26 pm Post subject: NATO planning to take over from UN - Putin
Putin: NATO planning to replace UN
Sat, 08 Mar 2008
Russia's President Vladimir Putin has accused NATO of planning to replace the United Nations, saying such moves would only lead to escalation.
"You get the impression that attempts are being made to set up an organization that would substitute for the UN," Putin said on Saturday.
"I believe the potential for conflict would only increase," the Russian leader added.
Relations between Russia and the alliance have been souring over NATO's plans to recruit former Soviet republics, including Ukraine and Georgia.
Moscow considers NATO's move as an attempt to extend its domain to the Western borders of Russia.
A NATO-backed US plan to station a missile defense system in Eastern Europe has further chilled the already strained relations between Russia and the West.
Outcry over Bush Admin’s 11th hour push for Ukraine, Georgia NATO membership
Russia Today
December 21, 2008
The outgoing American administration wants to strike a number of deals with its allies that will force Barack Obama to follow the same course, according to inside information obtained by RT.
The Bush Administration has been very active in the so-called “eleventh hour” as it pushes through domestic regulations and is attempting unilaterally to vie for backdoor NATO membership for both Georgia and Ukraine.
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“The more you tighten your grip, the more Star Systems will slip through your fingers.”
Barack Obama’s administration sees NATO as the nucleus for a global organization of democracies that will eventually replace the United Nations, believes an influential Russian newspaper.
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Washington wants NATO to be expanded by inviting counties like Australia, Japan, Brazil and South Africa and become a global organization tackling not only security issues but also epidemics and human rights, reports Kommersant daily on Friday. The next US Ambassador to NATO Ivo H. Daalder is a great supporter of this idea.
Daalder, expert of the Brookings Institution and a foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama during the election campaign, is a strong proponent of the so-called Concert of Democracies.
Washington wants NATO to be expanded by inviting counties like Australia, Japan, Brazil and South Africa and become a global organization {of Fascists -Th}
'Washington wants' - are they spiritually in touch with George then? Let's rephrase that to 'Brzezinski/CFR wants'
Surely Putin has read Brzezinski? So why the fuzzy talk? Russia is rearming, sez it all.
Keep everyone fearful, whatever works...whatever feeds the armscorps... _________________ "We will lead every revolution against us!" - attrib: Theodor Herzl
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The prime minister of Ukraine and her cabinet colleagues slash their own salaries by half, and appeal for help to stop the country going bankrupt. More4 News reports.
It is a measure of the economic crisis gripping the country and also of its political divisions, as the Orange Revolution, celebrated in the West for bringing in liberal reforms, totters under the onslaught of a reeling economy and a Russian neighbour keen to flex its muscles.
Nick Sturdee reports from Kherson, 300 miles south of the capital Kiev.
Russia has demanded Nato postpone plans to carry out military exercises in Georgia next month, saying they will "complicate" tensions in the region.
Sergei Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, said on Thursday that the exercises were "unlikely to send the right signal to those sincerely wishing to achieve stability in the Caucasus".
Moscow has pointed to tensions with Abkhazia and South Ossetia, two Georgian breakaway regions, as well as ongoing protests against Georgia's president, as reasons to delay the exercises.
But Robert Pszczel, a Nato spokesman, said the drills, to be held from May 6 to June 1, would be essentially co-ordination exercises, involving "no heavy military equipment".
"There is no controversy, no surprise and no connection with the situation in Georgia or in the region," he said.
The military alliance said the exercises, which will take place just outside Tbilisi, Georgia's capital, will involve about 1,300 people from 19 countries, and are aimed at "improving interoperability between Nato and partner countries".
Strained relations
A spokesman from Russia's Nato mission said the planned exercises "can only complicate a situation in the region which is not simple to start with".
Relations between the Kremlin and Nato deteriorated after Russia's war with Georgia in August last year, with the military alliance describing Moscow's actions at the time as "disproportionate".
Russia is also opposed to plans by Nato to help Georgia and Ukraine gain membership to the military alliance.
Last month, Nato agreed to resume high-level contacts with Russia, six months after the military alliance had frozen contacts with Moscow over the conflict.
Lavrov also warned Nato members on Thursday not to co-operate with the government of Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgia's president, who is regarded with great suspicion by Russia.
He said: "I hope that the Nato countries will shun steps planned for future cooperation with Georgia ... that could again push the Georgian regime towards an attitude of permissiveness and impunity." _________________ 'Come and see the violence inherent in the system.
Help, help, I'm being repressed!'
“The more you tighten your grip, the more Star Systems will slip through your fingers.”
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