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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

NATO suspicious of Russian security pact idea

Russia's presentation of plans for a new "Treaty on European Security" at a NATO gathering on Monday (28 July) met with suspicion the scheme could undermine existing alliances, with Moscow to return to the topic in September.

"European and American politicians express their concerns and preoccupations that the Russians are putting forward this initiative to weaken NATO or the OSCE," Russia's NATO ambassador, Dmitry Rogozin, told Reuters.

"These fears we can only laugh at - they are not serious," he added, after the regular session of the NATO-Russia Council in Brussels. "It does not intend to undermine the existing structures and institutions of security."

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