Regional security plan moves forward
Jan 20, 2010
Staff and wire reports

FEELING LEFT OUT: It has taken five years for NATO to start serious planning for defense of its three Baltic members.
RIGA - Thanks to the efforts of Poland, NATO has agreed in principle to develop formal contingency plans to defend member states Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, writes The Economist. After five years of “dithering, the alliance has made the decision to draw up defense plans for the Baltic states.” The shift comes after hard-fought negotiations in which, at the Americans’ insistence, Germany and other countries dropped their opposition, with the main push coming from Poland.
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