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NATO and Russia want dialogue
Hermetically sealed NATO decides to summit, new troops for the East. Russia is to be deterred and, at the same time invited. Putin is ready for dialogue, and engages the listener. Bernd Riegert from Warsaw.
Summit tent in the stadium: NATO leaders are ventilated via hoses
It looks a little like a giant space ship which is landed on the banks of the Vistula river in the centre of Warsaw. The red metal skin shines in the sun. How to defensive spears, the Supports of the walls jutting into the blue sky. A corrugated white plastic roof shields the Structure. The Polish national stadium was built for the European football championship in 2012. Now the temple of Sport, may take of 58,000 people, serves also as a conference centre. For two days, NATO has taken root here, with thousands of delegates from over 40 States and hundreds of representatives of the media. Add to that thousands of security forces and employees of the logistics and catering services. The populate on five floors, countless rooms under the stands.
Defence-NATO: In the belly of the huge stadium, thousands of delegates gather
Decide in the cocoon
On the lawn, an 80-by-40-meters large tent is pitched. In this snow-white, windowless Structure days, the heads of state and government. Completely shielded from the world Inside of a giant cocoon of plastic sheeting, Aluminum and gypsum fibre boards. “You might think that this is a hive”, philosopiert one of the Polish organisers, smiling. “We buzz around it and in the middle are the Queens.” The city of Warsaw is programmed for two days at NATO. Whole streets are for the cars of the state columns cordoned off to guests. Streetcars will be diverted. U-Bahn-stations are closed. Thousands of police officers-kilometre-long fences back up around the stadium, at the airport and at the hotel towers in the downtown. The Polish tabloid platform “fakt.pl” reports on the Internet that the number of prostitutes have increased for the summit days in Warsaw. And also the prices for the services are significantly higher than otherwise.
Security is of greatest importance, particularly also because the American President is in town. He is considered to be one of the most vulnerable people in the world. This is also why you’ve chosen to use the national stadium as the venue, is it NATO circles. It is because of the huge open spaces around it as well hermetically seal it. For safety reasons, Poland has introduced even for some weeks, border controls at the highways and airports. Since the country belongs to the Schengen zone without controls on persons, was a derogation of the EU.
Poland’s President Duda (li.) host, Secretary General Stoltenberg (re.) directs the summit
NATO should be closed to occur
The summit directed in the form of Jens Stoltenberg, the Secretary General of the Alliance, wants. In the bombastic backdrop, the heads of state and heads of government of unity and determination. Stoltenberg said on Thursday evening that the NATO of the Russian threat, with deterrence wool counter-measures and at the same time, but the dialogue with Russia. “The Cold war is history and it should remain that way,” said Stoltenberg. The usual family photo on the deep blue Carpet smiled, then all the heads of state and government brave and closed. US President Barack Obama, representing the leading NATO Power, was standing in the middle. There was a lot of backslapping and hugs. Obama, in Poland, 1000 US soldiers with the most modern equipment siting.
France sees no threat
Individual Statements were then quite aware of the nuances with regard to the Russia-policy. The Polish foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski said that, everywhere, where NATO is acting, there is peace and stability. Everywhere where Russia is acting, there are frozen conflicts and unrest in Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova, or Azerbaijan. “No one has promised the Russians that they, in the exercise of Imperial dominance in its neighbourhood”, said foreign Minister Waszczykowski. The French President Francois Hollande argues, however, that Russia is not a threat but a Partner. France has taken no leadership role in the stationing of additional soldiers in the Eastern NATO countries.
With an additional 4000 soldiers in rotation stationed in the Baltic States and Poland, is to be conveyed to the Eastern member States from 2017, a sense of security. “In the case of NATO you may not hang,” is the message to the Balts and the poles, NATO diplomats. In addition, a multi-national Federation is to be strengthened in Romania.
Moscow also wants the dialogue
The answer from Moscow was not long in coming. A Kremlin spokesman said that Russia is not threatening, and besides, Russia is ready to dialogue. Also the Alliance wants to repair the contact to Russia was cancelled after the annexation of Crimea by Russia is nearly complete. Next Wednesday’s meeting in Brussels of the joint Council of NATO and Russia at the level of the Ambassador. So a Meeting had taken place already in April. At the time, both sides had to be read aloud but only their different points of view. Parallel to the NATO summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin to the phone handle and spoke with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande about the situation in the East of Ukraine. Putin also announced that he would cooperate in the fight against Islamist terrorists in Syria more closely with the United States. Russia, in turn, wants troops to about 30,000 extra soldiers in its Western and southern defence station districts of the kidneys as a response to the reinforcement of the NATO.
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NATO shows its presence (08.07.2016)
EU and NATO want to cooperate better
On the sidelines of the summit, the European Union and NATO have written a better military cooperation in a solemn Declaration. You already tried that for many years. Yet it is but with the military power of the European Union is not far away. The United Kingdom has prevented, for example, as an EU member that this is something that develops as a European army. That could change maybe if the Brits leave the EU in the near future. It was not, even by European troops, the EU Dipomaten in Warsaw. They wanted to be rather that of NATO and the EU naval operations to Detect refugee boats off the Turkish and Libyan coasts, as supplemented. Especially there should be no parallel planning more, warned the President of the Council of the EU, Donald Tusk, at the signing of the EU-NATO Declaration. “Previously, you had the impression that the EU and NATO are living on two different planets, although our headquarters are located in the same city.”