STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [Via Communist Internet... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] . . ----- Original Message ----- From: Downwithcapitalism <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 8:01 PM Subject: [downwithcapitalism] Putin - Bush meeting; protesters dispersed BBC (with additional material by Associated Press). 16 June 2001. Putin warns against Nato expansion. The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has warned Nato not to expand into former Soviet Union countries and repeated his opposition to America's planned national missile defence shield (NMD). In a speech at the Foreign Ministry in Moscow, Mr Putin told Russian diplomats that events in the Balkans had been a set-back for relations between Moscow and the Alliance. The situation was gradually improving, he said, but if Nato moved into the former USSR it would be "a serious mistake." "Look, this is a military organization. ... It's moving towards our border. Why? This is the foundation of all of our concerns," Putin said. Mr Putin's words at a meeting to discuss Russia's foreign policy, were clearly intended as a warning to Nato that Russia is not prepared to relax its stiff opposition to any idea of incorporating any of the Baltic states into the Alliance. The Russian president used the occasion to warn his US counterpart, George W Bush, that Moscow remains implacably opposed to his plans to NMD. The Kremlin's line remains that nothing should be done which would break the terms of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty - an agreement which would be violated by current US plans. Putin called the ABM treaty the "cornerstone of the modern architecture of international security" and added, "Any unilateral actions can only make more complicated various problems and issues." The overall summit lasted a little more than two hours. Bush and Putin meet again next month in Genoa, Italy, at the G-8 summit of industrial powers. In Ljubljana, riot police brought in armored cars and a water cannon to disperse about 1,000 protesters who had marched to the Russian embassy Saturday afternoon. Earlier Saturday, security guards and riot police detained a handful of environmental activists after they breached a fence surrounding the U.S. embassy compound. Other protesters chained themselves together outside the compound, holding a banner reading "Stop Star Wars." PHOTO ATTACHMENT. Putin barely concealing his dislike for Bush. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<<attachment: putin.jpg>>
