Poland's Sikorski advocates Russia joining NATO
(B2) This caused a bit of a stir in Warsaw. All of a sudden, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Radek Sikorski became a fierce supporter of NATO membership of ... Russia! During a debate organized by the University of Torun, as reported by the Polish press, he affirmed that in the future, the Alliance should face challenges such as terrorism, ecology, and consider Russian membership, we need to solve global problems ", that " provided that this country democratizes, establishes civilian control over the army and puts an end to its border disputes ».
Develop mutual trust. « We will not build world peace without mutual trust ", he added. Confiding in journalists, Sikorski justified that he "n'thad not sought to invite Russia to the Alliance, but only to analyze a hypothetical situation which should be taken into account, because a democratic and predictable Russia would increase the security of the whole world, and in the first place that of Poland.. Needless to say, the statement shocked in Poland. A fine diplomat, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs justified this position by saying that the Minister " had undertaken a kind of intellectual experiment ". Great exercise...
The post of Secretary General of NATO in sight... To see a link with the minister's candidacy for the general secretariat of NATO would be purely fortuitous. Seeing the difficulties in which the favorite Rasmussen - especially with the Turkish veto - the Pole relaunched his candidacy in a very active way. However, he does not have a lot of support, apart from that of the Czechs, but he is seen with sympathy in London and Washington. He knows full well that his main flaw in these times of American-Russian global warming is precisely his nationality, Polish, and his
previous positions taken, in particular at the time of the Russo-Georgian conflict in August.
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