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US calls for meeting of all Nato ministers to address Georgia crisis
The United States has called a meeting of NATO foreign ministers next week over the crisis in Georgia, an alliance spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
- Agencies
- Published: 18:50 August 13, 2008
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Brussels: The United States has called a meeting of Nato foreign ministers next week over the crisis in Georgia, an alliance spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
The US envoy to Nato said on Tuesday that a number of the 26 Nato states believed the US-led military alliance should review its relationship with Russia as a result of the conflict.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice requested the meeting "as an opportunity to consult with our counterparts about the implications of the Russian action in Georgia," the US mission to Nato said.
Nato spokeswoman Carmen Romero said consulations were under way among the allies about meeting early next week. Diplomats said it was expected to take place on Tuesday in Brussels.
"The proposal was discussed by ambassadors this morning and there were no objections," a Nato diplomat said.
It was unlikely that a separate emergency meeting of the Nato-Russia Council requested by Moscow to discuss the Georgia crisis would take place before the ministerial session, he said.
Russian Nato ambassador Dmitry Rogozin has accused the United States of blocking the meeting. The US envoy to Nato Kurt Volker said his country needed more time to prepare.
At an emergency meeting in Brussels on Wednesday, European Union foreign ministers agreed in principle to send monitors to supervise a French-brokered ceasefire between Russia and Georgia in South Ossetia.
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