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Slovene Government Launches Campaign to Boost Interest in NATO -According to an opinion poll carried out by the Ljubljana Faculty for Political Science two weeks ago, only 38.8 percent of about 2 million Slovenes favor membership. LJUBLJANA, Apr 16, 2002 -- (dpa) The Slovene government on Monday launched a special NATO hotline telephone to stimulate support for membership of the alliance among citizens. The NATO hotline, which is a part of a larger government campaign to boost interest in NATO, will try to explain the advantages of membership and how it would benefit the country. Calls are free of charge. Public support for membership of NATO in Slovenia has been poor. Senior officials were recently warned that the alliance does not want to accept any members who are unwilling to join. According to an opinion poll carried out by the Ljubljana Faculty for Political Science two weeks ago, only 38.8 percent of about 2 million Slovenes favor membership. The total number of those polled was not published, however. Analysts say that the low level of support is due to fears of increased costs as Slovenia would have to modernize the military. According to analysts, Slovenes are disappointed that they were not invited to join NATO in the first round of enlargement in 1997, when the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary became members. (C)2002. dpa Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
