The NATO Citizen
2004-10-14 21:00:45 UTC
*Well - I told you so about what and how the Baltics see their NATO
membership...Using their assession to our NATO as some sort of "tool"
against Russia - and that was never the intent of the North Atlantic
Treaty!!!
#On 1 September the Russian embassy in Latvia asked for permission to let
six planes of the Russian air force and navy carrying soldiers fly through
Latvian airspace to Kaliningrad Region. The request was turned down. In
addition, the embassy received a negative answer to a request for flights of
An-26 Curl and Tu-134 Crusty planes on 6 September. The denial was explained
by Latvia's recent accession to NATO.#
Well - I told you so people...and Latvia's conduct is contary to the North
Atlantic Treaty and is shameful!
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Lithuania, Latvia accused of obstructing Russian access to Kaliningrad
BBC Monitoring Former Soviet Union - Political
Supplied by BBC Worldwide Monitoring
October 14, 2004, Thursday
Interfax-AVN military news agency web site, Moscow, in English 0752 gmt 14
Oct 04
Text of report in English by Russian news agency Interfax-AVN web site
Poiana Brasov, Romania, 14 October: Lithuania and Latvia have been hampering
Russian military transit following their accession to NATO, Defence Minister
Sergey Ivanov said at an informal meeting between NATO and Russia defence
ministers in the Romanian town of Poiana Brasov on Thursday 14 October .
"Russia met with understanding the requests of Germany and France for air
and railroad transit of servicemen and military cargo to Afghanistan,"
Ivanov said.
"Meanwhile, Lithuania has taken the opposite stand and is hampering Russia's
military transit to and from Russian territory in every way possible," he
said.
"Latvia is acting in unison with its neighbour." "Latvia's denial of access
to Russian military cargo planes carrying soldiers under the pretext of its
accession to NATO does not sound serious at all," the minister said.
"Perhaps we should remind new members of the alliance that they have also
assumed membership commitments in the Russia-NATO Council," he said.
membership...Using their assession to our NATO as some sort of "tool"
against Russia - and that was never the intent of the North Atlantic
Treaty!!!
#On 1 September the Russian embassy in Latvia asked for permission to let
six planes of the Russian air force and navy carrying soldiers fly through
Latvian airspace to Kaliningrad Region. The request was turned down. In
addition, the embassy received a negative answer to a request for flights of
An-26 Curl and Tu-134 Crusty planes on 6 September. The denial was explained
by Latvia's recent accession to NATO.#
Well - I told you so people...and Latvia's conduct is contary to the North
Atlantic Treaty and is shameful!
---
Lithuania, Latvia accused of obstructing Russian access to Kaliningrad
BBC Monitoring Former Soviet Union - Political
Supplied by BBC Worldwide Monitoring
October 14, 2004, Thursday
Interfax-AVN military news agency web site, Moscow, in English 0752 gmt 14
Oct 04
Text of report in English by Russian news agency Interfax-AVN web site
Poiana Brasov, Romania, 14 October: Lithuania and Latvia have been hampering
Russian military transit following their accession to NATO, Defence Minister
Sergey Ivanov said at an informal meeting between NATO and Russia defence
ministers in the Romanian town of Poiana Brasov on Thursday 14 October .
"Russia met with understanding the requests of Germany and France for air
and railroad transit of servicemen and military cargo to Afghanistan,"
Ivanov said.
"Meanwhile, Lithuania has taken the opposite stand and is hampering Russia's
military transit to and from Russian territory in every way possible," he
said.
"Latvia is acting in unison with its neighbour." "Latvia's denial of access
to Russian military cargo planes carrying soldiers under the pretext of its
accession to NATO does not sound serious at all," the minister said.
"Perhaps we should remind new members of the alliance that they have also
assumed membership commitments in the Russia-NATO Council," he said.