Lavrov warns NATO against compromising Russia's security

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Source: Associated Press

MOSCOW: NATO's chief put a brave face on the alliance's increasingly tense ties with Russia Tuesday, acknowledging disputes over missile defense, arms control and Kosovo, as Moscow said the two sides face "difficult work."

With Russian warnings to NATO and the United States becoming more and more belligerent, NATO's secretary general appeared to scold Moscow for threatening to retarget missiles at European cities. Jaap de Hoop Scheffer also acknowledged that a Soviet-era treaty governing the placement of heavy military equipment around Europe was a "bone of contention."

President Vladimir Putin made the threat to retarget Russian missiles last month in what appeared to be a response to U.S. plans to deploy a missile defense system in Eastern Europe. Putin has also threatened to pull out of the 1990 Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty.

"The NATO-Russian relation is one of partnership and discussion, and the targeting of missiles will not fit in that discussion," he said.



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1. Shurbery opened a can of worms. The Pope and other warned

him about going into Iraq and he did not listen. After all
God talks to him.