Moscow to NATO: No military bases in Baltics

  • 2003-06-05
  • Agence France Presse
MOSCOWRussia wants guarantees from NATO that it will not set up foreign bases in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania when these three states join the Western alliance next year, the Foreign Ministry said June 1."We intend to put the question firmly of the formulation of precise and unequivocal guarantees that arms and military forces of third countries will not be deployed on the territory of the Baltic countries," said spokesman Alexander Yakovenko.The statement was made on the eve of a session of the Russia-NATO Council in Madrid and a visit by specialists from Lockheed Martin to Latvia who wil...
 
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