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WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! NATO, Russia to forge new relationship By Jeffrey Ulbrich Associated Press BRUSSELS, Belgium — NATO and Russia agreed Friday to forge what Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov called “a profound change” in their relations, creating a new council to work out joint action on issues ranging from civil emergencies to missile defense. NATO officials insisted that the alliance will not be hampered by the new cooperation, and that if a decision cannot be reached with Russia, NATO’s ruling council will make the decision without it. “There is no issue more important to the security and stability of the Euro-Atlantic area than the further development of a confident and cooperative relationship between us,” NATO Secretary-General Lord Robertson told Ivanov. The 19-nation alliance wants to take advantage of Moscow’s cooperation in the fight against terrorism to pursue “opportunities for joint action at 20,” U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said. Besides the struggle against terrorism, Russia and NATO suggested they could work together in such areas as crisis management, nonproliferation, arms control, theater missile defense, search and rescue at sea, military-to-military cooperation and civil emergencies. Ivanov said Russia is not interested in joining the alliance. “Russia has no interest in queuing up for membership,” he said. But he said Moscow did want to work closely with NATO. “The Russian side has the political will to do it.” On Thursday, the ministers told their ambassadors at NATO headquarters to start working out details of a new arrangement for regular discussions with the Russians, and ways to include them in decision-making while retaining NATO’s ability to act on its own. “The precise nature and scope of this mechanism will require substantial work over the coming months,” Robertson said, but the plan is to have it in place by the next meeting of allied foreign ministers in May in Reykjavik, Iceland. Russian President Vladimir Putin, on a visit to Greece, said the new council should not be rushed into existence but built “in the atmosphere of trust and goodwill which has been created with our partners and the members of the alliance.” “Russia isn’t desperately knocking on the door of NATO. It isn’t setting at all cost the demand to become a full member of NATO,” Putin said. “At the same time, it is plainly obvious today that a series of issues may be resolved much more positively, in respect to security primarily, with the direct participation of Russia.” Since 1997, meetings have been held under something called the NATO-Russia Permanent Joint Council, a forum originally created to ease Moscow’s fears about NATO enlargement. But both sides say the council has never been satisfactory and more often than not the alliance uses it to inform Russia of positions it already has taken. Robertson said that Russia will not be able to veto NATO decisions on the new council. “We are not abandoning our principles or prerogatives,” Robertson said on the second day of NATO’s foreign ministers’ meeting. “This is about working together more effectively when it is in all our interests to do so.” Asked how Russia would benefit from this new arrangement, given that NATO could still take decisions on its own whether Moscow liked it or not, Robertson said “the answer is more in chemistry than in arithmetic.” *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! 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