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NATO Chief Warns Russia Using Cold War Tactics: Stoltenberg meets NATO troops on Estonian air base
Visiting an air base in Estonia, NATO #39;s Secretary General said Russia #39;s military activity around NATO air space is reminiscent of the Cold War era. Jens Stol...

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NATO to Kremlin: #39;Withdraw Russian army from Ukraine #39;
NATO has demanded the Russian military pull back its forces deployed inside Ukraine and on the Russian border. Jens Stoltenberg, NATO #39;s Secretary General, ma...

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Bagram: the war on wood
As the NATO-led operation in Afghanistan draws to a close, Bagram Airfield finds itself engaged in a different sort of battle: the #39;war on wood #39;. Across the sprawling base, temporary buildings...

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Afghanistan Parliament Approves U.S And Nato Agreement
Afghanistan Parliament Approves U.S And Nato Agreement The Afghan parliament has given the green light to military agreements allowing foreign troops to remain in the country past the end...

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US Soldiers to Stay in Baltic States in 2015: NATO build-up in response to Kremlin Ukraine war
The US commander of ground forces in Europe says that American troops will stay in the Baltics and Poland for at least another year. The US sent additional troops to Eastern European NATO...

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The divisive issue of whether Ukraine should join NATO will be put to a vote years from now, after the necessary reforms have been completed, President Petro Poroshenko announced Monday.

Russia's steadfast opposition to its neighbor and longtime ally becoming a member of the Western military alliance is a major factor in the armed conflict racking eastern Ukraine as Moscow attempts to thwart what it sees as the Kiev leadership's about-face to align instead with Europe.

An Oct. 26 parliamentary election has empowered a coalition in favor of pursuing membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as soon as possible, although all parties recognize that it will take years to meet the alliance conditions for new members.

Poroshenko has taken a more go-slow approach to NATO membership in view of Moscow's aggressive action in protest of Ukrainians' ouster of Kremlin-allied President Viktor Yanukovich in February. Russian President Vladimir Putin sent troops to seize Ukraine's Crimean peninsula days after Yanukovich was toppled by a pro-Europe rebellion and he is accused by a broad array of foreign governments of arming and instigating separatists fighting government forces in eastern Ukraine. More than 4,300 people have been killed since fighting broke out in April.

"The decision on accession to NATO lies solely in the competence of the people of Ukraine," Poroshenko said at a news conference Monday with visiting Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite.

Poroshenko said Ukraine was committed to making the reforms and investments necessary to meet NATO requirements but that a referendum would be held after those milestones are reached, sometime around 2020, to determine whether or not to join what is now a 28-nation alliance.

Putin has cast NATO expansion into the former Soviet sphere of influence as aggression aimed at undermining the security of Russia, and the frequency of provocative air and sea space violations has tripled this year as Moscow takes a more hostile posture against its NATO-member neighbors.

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg warned Monday that aerial intrusions by Russian fighter planes, numbering more than 100 so far this year, are putting commercial aircraft at risk.

"They're not turning on the transponders, they are not filing their flight plans and they're not communicating with civilian air-traffic control," Stoltenberg told reporters at an alliance gathering in The Hague. "That poses a risk on civilian air traffic."

Stoltenberg also commented on the status of Ukraine's eligibility to join NATO, saying that although it had been put on the back burner it remains available to the embattled country.

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Poroshenko: Ukrainians will vote on joining NATO years from now

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said sanctions against Russia will stay as long as the government in Moscow does little to resolve the conflict in Ukraine.

Were working on a diplomatic resolution to this crisis, Merkel said today in Berlin. As long as Russia contributes very little or nothing to overcome this crisis, we need economic sanctions. Theyre unavoidable, although I know they impact the German and the European economies.

The stance underscores the growing resolve among Ukraines allies as violence between separatists and government troops sidelines diplomatic efforts to reach a negotiated outcome. France today ruled out delivery of a warship to Russia.

More than 4,300 people have been killed during the almost eight-month conflict in the regions of Donetsk and Luhansk and much of the local infrastructure has been laid to waste in rebel-held areas of Ukraine. The U.S., NATO and the European Union accuse President Vladimir Putin of fueling the crisis by aiding the separatists, a charge Russia denies. Ukraine says Russian troops and vehicles continue to cross the border.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg urged Russia to pull back its forces from eastern Ukraine and respect a wobbly truce, which has been breached repeatedly since it was signed in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, more than two months ago. He also said that the alliance would stick by a 2008 decision to let Ukraine join if it eventually meets the criteria and decides to do so, even if membership isnt being discussed now.

We are calling on Russia to stop violating international law and to respect the sovereignty of Ukraine, Stoltenberg told lawmakers from NATO countries in The Hague yesterday.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said the former Soviet republic will decide in a referendum at the end of the decade whether to seek North Atlantic Treaty Organization membership once it completes necessary policy changes. Admission to the military alliance requires agreement by all member states, currently 28.

Ukraines government said Sept. 26 that it seeks NATO membership in the short term. Putin has criticized the U.S. and EU countries for encroaching into former communist Europe, saying they have violated agreements signed at the end of the Cold War and pose a threat to his countrys national security.

The decision on its future ties with NATO is for Ukraine alone to make, the foreign ministers of Lithuania and the Czech Republic said at a briefing in Prague.

The situation in Ukraine means the terms for delivery of the first of two Mistral warships to Russia have not been met, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on France Inter radio today. President Francois Hollande has said the Sept. 5 cease-fire agreement between Ukraine and the separatists must be enforced before France can transfer the helicopter carriers.

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