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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ColtonGang who wrote (162278)	7/18/2001 6:53:40 PM
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Putin: NATO Should Disband or Allow Russia to Join He Also Promises No Joint Action With China Over ABM Treaty By Peter Baker Washington Post Foreign Service Wednesday, July 18, 2001; 2:17 PM MOSCOW, July 18 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin said today that he thinks President Bush has a good soul too, but that does not mean he is ready to make a deal on missile defense or other issues that divide the two when they meet for the second time this weekend. On one such area of contention, Putin proposed that NATO either disband or admit Russia rather than simply expand by adding members up to his country's borders in what Moscow considers an act of hostility. As long as NATO continues to exist apart from Russia, he said, it will sow the seeds of suspicion in Europe. "The simplest [solution] is to dissolve NATO, but this is not on the agenda," Putin told reporters at the Kremlin. "The second possible option is to include Russia in NATO. This also creates a single defense and security space. The third option is the creation of a different new organization which would set itself these tasks and which would incorporate the Russian Federation."