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Afghanistan should be left to set own “red lines,” (01.06.2010) |
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The international community should not impose its own standards on the fledgling Afghan democracy, in particular when it comes to reintegrating elements of the Taliban, a NATO expert told a gathering of Allied parliamentarians Sunday in Riga.
“We must stop drawing ‘red lines’ for these negotiations,” said Jack Segal, chief political advisor to the Commander of NATO Joint Force Command Headquarters at Brunssum, speaking at the Spring Session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.
He was referring to pressure some Allied nations are putting on Kabul to hold talks with the Taliban only under certain conditions. “The political strategy calls for the reconciliation and reintegration of what President Karzai calls “our upset brothers”,” Segal said, “again, we need to listen to him.”
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Live broadcast from the NATO PA Plenary Sitting (original and English translation)
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According to an expert, Central Asia as a “POWDER-KEG” (31.05.2010) |
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Alain Délétroz, the Vice-President (Europe) of the International Crisis Group, has warned allied parliamentarians about the potentially explosive situation that prevails in Central Asia and has called for consistent cooperation in security among the three great power blocks (NATO and the EU, China and the Russian Federation ).
In his view, in the absence of concerted international action on the security situation in the area in place of such strategic influence ploys as have always existed, we are witnessing the transformation of this region into a “twenty-first century powder-keg, a mix of dictatorships, mafia dealings and religious fundamentalism”.
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A flowerbed in colours of Latvia’s flag and NATO’s logo is created in Jēkaba Square (31.05.2010) |
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 On Monday, 31 May, Mr Gundars Daudze, Speaker of the Saeima of the Republic of Latvia, and Mr John Tanner, President of the NATO PA, inaugurated a flowerbed arranged in the form the NATO PA Riga Session logo in Jēkaba Square.
Mr. G.Daudze indicated that Latvia did its best to make sure that the NATO PA Riga Session proceeds flawlessly. “Today we want to give a lasting present to the inhabitants and guests of Riga,” said the Speaker of the Saeima at the ceremony dedicated to the new flowerbed arranged in the colours of NATO’s logo and Latvia’s flag.
„It clearly symbolises our close and constructive cooperation, as well as the fact that Latvia is a full-fledged NATO member state which is aware of its friends, partners and allies,” emphasised Mr G.Daudze.
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The NATO Parliamentary Assembly’s Riga Session will end with a plenary session (31.05.2010) |
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 On 1 June, the last day of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly’s (PA) Riga Session will end with the plenary session.
The plenary meeting will be opened by Mr. John Tanner, President of the NATO PA. Then the participants of the plenary meeting will be addressed by Mr. Gundars Daudze, Chairman of the Saeima, and Mr. Valdis Dombrovskis, Prime Minister of Latvia. It has been planned that Mr. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO Secretary General, General Abdul Rahim Vardak, Defence Minister of Afghanistan, and General Egon Ramms, Commander of the Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum, will also take the floor.
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