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To: michael97123 who wrote (96932)	4/30/2003 10:59:42 AM
From: NickSE	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Eastern Europe must be lovin this news...gg France wants Russia involved in European defence euobserver.com The French defence minister Michèle Alliot-Marie stated last Friday (25 April), in Moscow, that Russia should be involved in European defence plans. The French Minister spoke about a new military co-operation to be built up between Russia and France in the aftermath of the Iraq war. Now that European defence is becoming a reality, the minister believes it would be natural to bring Moscow in on EU defence plans - as within NATO. Concrete co-operation Ms Alliot-Mari thinks that more French-Russian military co-operation could only contribute to the stability of Europe. She proposed three levels of co-operation that would involve bilateral technical and human relationships, joint actions on the ground (like in Afghanistan and Kosovo) and relationships in the framework of international institutions - NATO and European defence. The French minister met the Russian foreign minister Serghei Ivanov with whom she mainly discussed the outcome of the recent Russian-French-German Summit in St Petersburg. France and Russia are pursuing the same line regarding the post war Iraq; they are both claiming a central role for the United Nations. France and Russia are currently working to develop a new generation MiG fighter plane and Mr Ivanov indicated that other projects are also being undertaken, according to Izvestia. He also said they discussed Russian proposals for a European-wide anti-missile defence system. Russia came up with the proposals after the United States, in 2002, announced that it was formally withdrawing from the 1972 Anti Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty.