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  • IN TBILISI FOREIGN MINISTERS OF FIVE EU MEMBER STATES EXPRESSED SUPPORT TO GEORGIAâS STRIVING TO REGULATE THE PRESENT SITUATION 13 May 2008 11:56 GMT
    ... Dmitrij Rupel, ministers of foreign affairs of Latvia, Poland and Sweden Maris Riekstins Radoslaw Sikorski ... speaking about situation in Georgia stressed that military confrontation is not acceptable to Georgia. Georgia’s representatives ...

  • EU ministers urge peace on Georgia mission 13 May 2008 07:58 GMT
    ... ministers from five EU member states - Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia and Sweden - travelled to ... South Ossetia. Tbilisi has accused the Russian army of supplying weapons and logistical support to ... announced plans to send an extra 1,000 soldiers to Abkhazia. "What is being carried out ...

  • EU ministers affirm Georgian sovereignty in Russia dispute 13 May 2008 06:52 GMT
    ... in Tbilisi. The foreign ministers of Slovenia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden met Georgian President ... the region, saying Georgia was preparing a military assault to retake the rebel territory. Tbilisi accused ...

  • State of the World 13 May 2008 04:58 GMT
    ... rights concerns to permit the release of military aid to Egypt. Long noted a wide variation ... successfully in Lima, Taipei, Krakow, Warsaw, Riga (Latvia), Tallinn (Estonia), and Ljubljana (Slovenia). Sierra Leone ...

  • NATO: Kyiv, Tbilisi Face More Obstacles Than Simply Russian Resistance 13 May 2008 04:58 GMT
    ... both countries have made impressive progress on military and political reform, both also still have ... "In Ukraine there is a so-called Interior Army, which is unacceptable from the point of ... from the November 2006 summit in the Latvian capital. "This includes strengthening judicial reform and ...

  • NATO: Expansion Talk Rekindles Old Debate For Russia 13 May 2008 04:58 GMT
    ... Talk Rekindles Old Debate For Russia Lithuanian soldiers celebrating NATO accession in 2004. Russia ... joined NATO. In the days after Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania officially joined NATO, four years ... of this, Russia and Ukraine still maintain military-technological cooperation that dates back to Soviet times. ...

  • Georgia rebels say shot 2 more Georgian spy drones 13 May 2008 04:57 GMT
    ... of a 1994 United Nations ceasefire, Russian soldiers patrol between the Georgian and Abkhazian security forces. ... five EU countries - Poland, Slovenia, Lithuania, Latvia and Sweden - also visited Georgia on Monday. ...

  • Today in History - Thursday, May 8, 2008 13 May 2008 04:52 GMT
    ... NATO seven former communist nations: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. A federal grand ... over Congo, hurling more than 100 Congolese soldiers and their families to their deaths. One ... that it had notified more than 35,000 Army soldiers to be prepared to deploy to ...

  • Is Europe still sitting out the Afghan war? 13 May 2008 04:48 GMT
    ... summit in Bucharest, Romania. France would send troops to Afghanistan, possibly as many as 1,000. ... Harper went into NATO's meeting in Riga, Latvia, looking for more troops. Back then, the issue ... would send a battalion — about 700 soldiers — to eastern Afghanistan. The U.S. would ...

  • US Officials Relying on Engagement Strategy to Promote Change in Central Asia 13 May 2008 04:48 GMT
    ... exploding population growth. The geopolitical imperative and military dimension of the US presence in Central Asia ... influence." "The measuring stick should not be Latvia, which sees itself as an integral – ...

  • Russia Mulls Measures to Check Chinese Influence in Central Asia 13 May 2008 04:48 GMT
    ... Kalyuzhny's new assignment is the ambassadorship to Latvia – clearly a form of diplomatic exile. Another ... Blank is a professor at the US Army War College. The views expressed this article do not ...

  • Rice Attempts to Secure U.S. Influence in Central Asia 13 May 2008 04:45 GMT
    ... that it is being evicted from its military base in Uzbekistan. Relations between the United ... to host a new base for Chinese troops. Bishkek is pursuing a foreign policy that ... -- the other two being Ukraine and Latvia. That fact alone meant that from the ...

  • N.A.T.O.-Russia Cooperation: Political Problems Versus Military Opportunities 13 May 2008 04:45 GMT
    ... and a considerable number of political and military forms of cooperation have been enacted. Now ... protection above the Baltic States. Since Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania became members of the alliance ... addition to this exercise, Russia is sending navy ships to participate in N.A.T.O.'s maritime operation ...

  • Russia Views N.A.T.O. Expansion as a Strategic Threat 13 May 2008 04:45 GMT
    ... would include restrictions on the deployment of weapons near Russia's borders. In May 2002, Russia ... However, Moscow indicated it could reassess its military planning in view of what it called ... the three ex-Soviet Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as soon as they join ...

  • The Poland-Belarus Controversy and the Battle for Eastern Europe 13 May 2008 04:45 GMT
    ... Sea to the Black Sea through Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, ... of renewed transatlantic ties and an American military presence in Europe. Geography is inescapable: sooner ... provided Washington with no more than 200 soldiers, but without any parliamentary debate -- a ...

  • Finland Keeps its Hairline Distance from N.A.T.O. 13 May 2008 04:45 GMT
    ... the continuation of Helsinki's security policy of military non-alignment. Although a number of factors entered into ... their boundary. The Baltic states -- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia -- which were part of ...

  • Intelligence Brief: Poland Fumes Over Russian-German Projects; Meeting in Lithuania to Counter Russian Influence in F.S.U. 13 May 2008 04:45 GMT
    ... in Georgia and Moldova. Lithuania, Georgia, Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, Romania, Moldova and Macedonia participated in ... them to foster their political, economic and military goals. The Power and Interest News Report (PINR) ...

  • Democracy in the Former Soviet Union: 1991-2004 13 May 2008 04:45 GMT
    ... still required the absence of potentially threatening political/military entities. Ensuring that states shared Western norms ... to launch the process of democratic reorganization. Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania spent the least amount ... openly defying the military draft that sent soldiers into the prolonged and bloody Chechen conflict. ...

  • The Implications of Russia's Moratorium of the C.F.E. Treaty 13 May 2008 04:45 GMT
    ... It also stresses the fact that Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania -- now N.A.T.O. members -- ... a key element of the post-Cold War military balance in Europe, Russia's decision has been ... by providing equal ceilings for major conventional weapons and equipment systems. In the area that ...

  • US spends hundreds of billions to control Russia, Iraq and Afghanistan 13 May 2008 04:38 GMT
    ... Eastern Europe and the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania). The document, which the U.S. ... Cabinet departments with $70 billion for U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Senate cast ...

  • The Emerging Russian Giant Plays its Cards Strategically 13 May 2008 04:36 GMT
    ... will be encircled and trumped by a military rival, USA, for which it has little ... 2004 Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia all ... inception as a modern state. While its army, navy and air force are in derelict ...

  • U.S. senator urges use of NATO defense clause for energy 13 May 2008 04:36 GMT
    ... energy cutoff and a member facing a military blockade or other military demonstration on its ... what steps it would take "if Poland, Latvia or another member state is threatened as ... because "an attack using energy as a weapon can devastate a nation's economy and yield ...

  • Georgia rebels say they shot 2 more drones 13 May 2008 02:33 GMT
    ... of a 1994 United Nations ceasefire, Russian soldiers patrol between the Georgian and Abkhazian security forces. ... five EU countries -- Poland, Slovenia, Lithuania, Latvia and Sweden -- also visited Georgia on Monday. ...

  • Let them eat spuds: potatoes - the world's new staple? 13 May 2008 01:30 GMT
    ... sounded like a joke. Some of the soldiers and sailors who were told that from ... into panic, last Friday's announcement by the military that it was turning to the potato ... wheat when it was cheap." Meanwhile, in Latvia, a sharp increase in the price of ...

  • US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,076 Monday, according to Associated Press count 13 May 2008 01:30 GMT
    ... US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,076 Monday, ... Denmark, seven; El Salvador, five; Slovakia, four; Latvia, three; Estonia, Georgia, Netherlands, Thailand, Romania, two ... deaths reported by the military: _ A soldier was killed Sunday by an explosive in ...


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