Obama backs NATO expansion…
March 26, 2009
President Barack Obama says he backs the idea of a larger NATO despite his administration’s intention to ‘reset’ ties with Russia.
“My administration is seeking a reset of the relationship with Russia,” Obama said after an Oval Office meeting with NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, but insisted that countries who seek and aspire to join NATO must able to join NATO.
The comments come a week ahead of Obama’s scheduled first meeting with his Russian counterpart President Dmitry Medvedev — whose country strongly opposes NATO’s eastward expansion — on the sidelines of the Group of 20 economic summits in London.
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