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[Transnational threats. Isn't that precisely what NATO is in the business of promoting and perpetrating? When has any Balkans nation threatened another since the Balkans Wars in the early 1900s? Peace in the Balkans? Perhaps the eternal wars waging in Kosovo, Southern Serbia and Macedonia are being held up as examples of this Pax NATOiana? The 'NATO hopefuls' are scurrying to pack their umemployed cannon fodder off to Central and Southern Asia, the Persian Gulf and the Horn of Africa in an unappreciated effort to ingratiate the local elites to their new colonial masters. The unspeakably impoverished and disenfranchised peoples of Bulgaria, Albania, Macedonia and Romania would never dream of these mad imperial designs unless goaded and deluded into them by Western-installed traitors who properly belong in prisons or psychiatric wards.] NATO hopefuls stress Balkans peace Monday, 29-Apr-2002 6:50AM����Story from AFP Copyright 2002 by Agence France-Presse (via ClariNet) BUCHAREST, April 29 (AFP) - Ex-communist states including many hoping to be invited to join NATO later this year underlined Monday their commitment to securing peace in the region, notably in the war-scarred Balkans. "We want to change the perception that peace is an exception in southeastern Europe," said Romanian foreign ministry official Mihnea Motoc at the meeting of representatives of 16 ex-communist states. "We want to convince the West that peace is possible in this region," he added, calling for its countries "to be rapidly achored [sic] into stable and democratic Western organizations." [For example, the preeminently 'democratic' NATO.] The meeting was called to discuss "transnational threats" and to identify "specific policy tools and mechanisms .. to raise the level of domestic, regional and Euro-Atlantic stability," said an official. Four Balkan countries -- Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia and Albania -- are among nine candidates hoping to be invited to join NATO at a landmark Alliance summit in Prague in November. Albania and Macedonia, the latter still wracked by conflict, are not tipped for entry. But Romania's and Bulgaria's NATO hopes have been boosted since September 11 and the resultant geopolitical shifts, notably in the United States' relations in the region. Motoc was due to have talks with his Bulgarian counterpart Petko Draganov in the sidelines of the Bucharest meeting, to discuss their NATO hopes, officials said. The meeting, co-organized by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), gathered envoys from Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Republika Srpska, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine and Yugoslavia. Representatives from NATO and European Union (EU) countries also attended, including participants from Austria, Italy, Britain, Greece, Spain, the United States, Portugal and Turkey. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.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 ==^================================================================
