[Via... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] . . ----- Original Message ----- From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 12:04 PM Subject: 9 New NATO Candidates, Croatia To Meet At Slovakia War Council [STOPNATO.ORG.UK] STOP NATO: NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb ---------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.europeaninternet.com/centraleurope/news.php3?id=397980 Countries Seeking NATO Entry to Confer in Slovakia on 10-12 May May 2, 2001 -- (BBC Monitoring) Text of report in English by Czech news agency CTK. Bratislava, 1 May: The prime ministers of nine countries seeking NATO membership and the Croatian prime minister will meet in Bratislava on 10-12 May at an international conference on new European democracies, the Slovak government press department told CTK today. Vaclav Havel, president of the Czech Republic which has been a NATO member since 1999, will make a speech at the conference on 11 May. The conference, which is to be attended by the prime ministers of Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia, is to point to the contribution of Central and Eastern European countries to security on the continent and in the Euro-Atlantic area. "We consider the conference as a unique opportunity for Slovakia to show that it wants to be one of leaders in the formation of a united and free Europe, whose pillars are the North Atlantic alliance and the European Union," the press department quoted Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda as saying. Slovakia, unlike the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland, was not admitted to NATO because of what was described as shortcomings in democracy under previous premier Vladimir Meciar. Slovakia also started EU admission talks two years later than its neighbors. Invited to the conference as guests have besides Havel been former Hungarian President Arpad Goencz, French political scientist Jacques Rupnik and former Polish Foreign Minister Bronislaw Geremek. Source: CTK news agency, Prague, in English 1900 GMT 1 May 01 (C) 2001 BBC Monitoring __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
