TALLINN - NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer has said that he hopes Russia will not follow through with its plan to deploy missiles in the Kaliningrad exclave.
The NATO chief told reporters after a meeting with Prime Minister Andrus Ansip that NATO did not have any measured planned in response to Russian missile movement. Scheffer also said, however, that Russian President Dmitri Medvedev's statement on the plan was totally unneccesary.
"There are at present no missiles in the Kaliningrad
region and I hope they will not be deployed there," de Hoop
Scheffer said.
De Hoop Scheffer, who arrived in Tallinn for high-level
NATO-Ukraine consultations, said the doors of the alliance
will remain open and both Ukraine and Georgia have a chance
of becoming members of the alliance. But he underlined at
the same time that countries seeking admission must show
results. There is no automatic ticket to NATO membership, he
stressed.
