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09:50, July 06, 2007 |
There is absolutely no need for NATO 's enlargement, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday.
"We do not see the need for the enlargement of NATO," Lavrov was quoted by the Itar-Tass news agency as saying.
"A political recurrence, bloc-minded approaches and thinking of the Cold War show through it. Present-day threats are not related with possibilities of this bloc, even if it will be enlarged. One should act only collectively," Lavrov said.
NATO's enlargement "looks an artificial project not adding trust and not consolidating the spirit of the Helsinki accords," he said.
Russia has been worried about the enlargement of NATO as it has admitted 10 former Eastern Bloc states, including three former Soviet Baltic republics, since early 1990s.
Source: Xinhua
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