Nicholas burns: Putin should be given credit for the " revival of NATO "
Russian President centuries Putin should be given credit for the " revival of NATO, " said the former Commissioner of the United States to NATO Nicholas burns during a telephone conference held on the last working day of the week by the Atlantic Council.
" Putin's actions have revitalized NATO, most of its European members, " says burns.
NATO countries ended in Wales summit came to an agreement on the extension of measures of collective protection, seeing danger in the Russian Federation, however, confirmed that they did not want to send ABOUT on RF and want to keep with Moscow political dialogue even when frozen relations. The second landmark decision was a Declaration on the need for member countries to increase military budgets due to the high cost of such protection. One of the unresolved issues about the increase in the share of GDP of member countries paid for military needs, this initiative did not meet with understanding of the participants of the summit.
The disagreements among the participating countries on the introduction of new penalties for Russia, according to burns, indicates that Putin has played his allies." All this is not to say a strong, United and powerful Alliance.
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