NATO is considering creating closer military links with countries like Sweden, Finland, Australia, New Zealand or even Japan and South Korea, in an initiative pushed by the US but opposed by France.
According to the Financial Times, Washington has been gathering support for the idea of a more flexible "global partnership" which would lead to a rationalising of NATO's current web of partnerships but also push for "advanced partnerships" with Nordic, Asian and Australasian countries.
NATO's secretary general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer is also reported as favouring the plan which is set to be raised at the NATO foreign ministers' meeting in Sofia and at its November summit in Riga.
The main drive behind the initiative is to boost ties with countries that already co-operate with the alliance, such as with Sweden, Finland, New Zealand and Australia participating in the Afganistan mission.
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