New security concept
Fri, 22.10.2010
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NATO - the cornerstone of transatlantic
security
NATO's work on a new Strategic
Concept "is on the right path", underscored Chancellor Angela
Merkel during the visit of Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO Secretary
General, to Berlin.
The discussions on the strategic
realignment of NATO focus on the future responsibilities of the
alliance. "We will be pointing out that NATO is not simply an
alliance for defence, but an alliance for security," declared the
Chancellor. NATO looks not only at military issues, but is a forum
above all for political discussions, she added.
Angela Merkel underlined that she was delighted that the Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, would be attending the NATO-Russia Council at the next NATO summit. An important point on the agenda of these talks will be a missile defence system. Russia’ s openness for issues of this sort is a good sign, she said.
"The new Strategic Concept will be ambitious, but sufficiently realistic," stressed Anders Fogh Rasmussen. "It will define NATO’s new duties and lay out the new capacities that NATO will need. It will lay down the direction reforms are to take, so that we can do what is expected of us."
The direction the reform will take
Angela Merkel underlined that she was delighted that the Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, would be attending the NATO-Russia Council at the next NATO summit. An important point on the agenda of these talks will be a missile defence system. Russia’ s openness for issues of this sort is a good sign, she said.
"The new Strategic Concept will be ambitious, but sufficiently realistic," stressed Anders Fogh Rasmussen. "It will define NATO’s new duties and lay out the new capacities that NATO will need. It will lay down the direction reforms are to take, so that we can do what is expected of us."
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