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Russia may join NATO in future - Lord Robertson

IRNA

Berlin, Oct 26, Itar-Tass/ACSNA/IRNA -- Russia may join the North 
Atlantic Alliance in the future, NATO Secretary General Lord George 
Robertson said in an interview with Bild am Sonntag. He said he did 
not know what the Alliance would be like ten years from now. 
Lord Robertson said the Alliance had changed radically during his 
office. Nowadays Russia is an equal partner in the NATO-Russia 
Council, he remarked. 
Lord Robertson thinks that the enlargement will go on, and Russia 
may join the Alliance in a couple of years. He said they are fighting 
together against a common enemy -- international terrorism. 
He also thinks that Europeans should not waste time and money on 
the creation of their own army, which would be a rival to NATO. 
He said the EU could use resources of NATO in military operations.
The Balkan mission shows that the EU and NATO can cooperate 
efficiently, Lord Robertson said. 
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