> Only a fool would not assume that last weekend's St. Petersburg summit of Germany, France and Russia was not consumed with the nuts and bolts of erecting defenses against American geopolitical aggression
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>>>Four European Union countries that opposed the U.S.-led war in Iraq agreed on Tuesday to create a multinational force headquarters next year, in what they called a drive to boost European defense integration.
The leaders of Belgium, France, Germany and Luxembourg also said they would establish the nucleus of a joint planning and command unit for military missions where NATO was not involved.
Both Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said they were convinced all 25 present and future EU members would want to participate in most of what they had proposed.
He recalled that the single European currency had also been born of an initiative by a vanguard of a couple of member states, although it had swelled to include 12 states so far.
The leaders proposed the creation of a European Security and Defense Union within the EU, open to all member states that wished to cooperate more closely in the military field and be bound by a mutual defense commitment.
They outlined seven concrete measures, most already under way or agreed, including the creation of an EU rapid reaction force, a European strategic air transport command and fleet, a joint nuclear, biological and chemical weapons protection capability and joint training. <<<
And this.
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>>>Russia and five former Soviet republics have set up a joint military command to oversee a rapid reaction force amid increased security risks in Central Asia, their leaders said Monday.
The announcement was made after a summit here by the leaders of Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, which make up the Collective Security Treaty Organization (DKB).
The doctrine is similar to that of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), an alliance that was founded to counter the growing Soviet threat in Europe after World War II.
Alexander Lukashenko, the authoritarian president of Belarus, said the grouping moved to focus on building up its common armed force following the war in Iraq, launched by the United States and Britain without the backing of the United Nations.
"The situation in the world has prompted us to do this -- we must ensure the security of our countries and our people," Lukashenko said.
"We have noticed that certain forces within the United Nations are attempting to break the global system and its key link, the United Nations," he said.<<<
And then the Russian one makes a treaty with the European one and after that ........ |
