NATO ministers focus on ties with Russia

Foreign ministers of the western NATO alliance began wrapping up their two-day meeting in Tallinn on Friday.

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Friday, 23.04.2010.

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Foreign ministers of the western NATO alliance began wrapping up their two-day meeting in Tallinn on Friday. They discussed reviewing the alliance's relationship with Russia, diplomats said. NATO ministers focus on ties with Russia A further topic on the agenda later on was to map out NATO's strategy on a future pullout from Afghanistan, with the key isue being how it would be decided when responsibility for security would be turned over the Afghan military and police. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said the alliance still needs 450 personnel to train Afgan security forces for this task. The two-day NATO meetings got underway on Thursday with discussions on a wide range of issues including US tactical nuclear weapons in Europe and the related issue of Russia's nuclear arms, the missile defence shield question, and the prospects for membership of Bosnia in NATO.

NATO ministers focus on ties with Russia

A further topic on the agenda later on was to map out NATO's strategy on a future pullout from Afghanistan, with the key isue being how it would be decided when responsibility for security would be turned over the Afghan military and police.

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said the alliance still needs 450 personnel to train Afgan security forces for this task.

The two-day NATO meetings got underway on Thursday with discussions on a wide range of issues including US tactical nuclear weapons in Europe and the related issue of Russia's nuclear arms, the missile defence shield question, and the prospects for membership of Bosnia in NATO.

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