Roberto Abraham Scaruffi: Stop NATO

Wednesday 3 July 2013

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Tue Jul 2, 2013 7:22 pm (PDT) . Posted by:

"Rick Rozoff" rwrozoff

http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/311952.html

Press TV
July 2, 2013

‘US intends to stay longer in Afghanistan’

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The Taliban’s Tuesday attack in the Afghan capital Kabul dashes hopes of any possible peace talks between the U.S. and the militants, an analyst says.

The Taliban attack indicates there are suspicions amongst both "Taliban and average Afghans" that the United States and its allies “intend to stay in Afghanistan past next year [2014]," says Rick Rozoff, the manager of the organization Stop NATO.

“The real issue, and I think it’s highlighted by the fact that the NATO compound was attacked today in Kabul, is the fact that the country remains under foreign military occupation which began in October 2001,” Rozoff told Press TV’s U.S. Desk on Tuesday.

“The long-suffering Afghan people continue to be denied peace, reconciliation and security because of the geo-political designs of the United States and its allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.”

During the Tuesday bomb attack, Taliban militants detonated a truck bomb at a NATO supplier’s compound, killing nine security guards.

The talks, scheduled to kick off in Qatar recently, have once again hit a snag as the Afghan government sees itself marginalized. It has warned that the effort would not yield any results unless the negotiations are held on Afghan soil.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai renewed the warning on Sunday, saying talks on a key security pact between his country and the U.S. would only resume if Taliban meet with Kabul’s negotiators.

The Taliban have always accused Karzai of following U.S. policies and have thus refused to meet members of his High Peace Council.
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Tue Jul 2, 2013 7:50 pm (PDT) . Posted by:

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http://www.b92.net/eng/news/region.php?yyyy=2013&mm=07&dd=01&nav_id=86805

Tanjug News Agency
July 2, 2013

Church dignitary likens NATO to "Fourth Reich"

PODGORICA: SPC Metropolitan of Montenegro Amfilohije has referred to the Western military alliance NATO as "the Fourth Reich."

The media in Podgorica are quoting him as saying that NATO represented "a continuation of fascism and a desire to rule the whole world."

This dignitary of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) also appraised that it was good that the region was uniting "with Europe" - but noted that this should not happen "as part of NATO."

"What is NATO's reason of being? What is NATO, if not the Fourth Reich? What is it, if not a continuation of fascism and a desire to rule the whole world," Amfilohije said, during a consecration ceremony for a renewed church near the town of Kolašin, northern Montenegro.

"We are going to Europe, but to contribute something, not only to beg around Europe. The first thing that Montenegro could do is to ask the NATO nations to disband the pact. That would be Montenegro's contribution to Europe," the media in Podgorica quoted the metropolitan as saying.

As for Kosovo and Metohija, he said the tyranny of Murad - the Ottoman Turkish leader killed during the Battle of Kosovo in 1389 - was "continuing" there:

"Now it is not Murad who is taking part in it, it is NATO, the EU, and the U.S. In other words, all those who continue with the tyrannies of the crusades, the Inquisition, Napoleon, and the Bolsheviks."

"They defend human rights, and drop bombs on us, and call that a humanitarian bombing. Americans have built one of the largest military fortifications in the world in Kosovo, for humanitarian purposes. Our leaders need to think well. We should go to Europe, but to what kind? Europe such as it is - criminal, tyrannical, trampling on the poor - is that the Europe we need?," Amfilohije asked.
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Tue Jul 2, 2013 7:50 pm (PDT) . Posted by:

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http://www.civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=26217

Civil Georgia
June 27, 2013

Rasmussen on Georgia's NATO Integration

Tbilisi: NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said on June 27 in Tbilisi that Georgia "is on the right path”, which moved “a lot closer to NATO”, but “the burden may still be on you now to continue to deliver the necessary reforms.”

“But once you have delivered, the burden will be on us to live up to our pledge that Georgia will be a member of NATO,” he said in a speech before a group of students in the National Library on the second day of the visit to Georgia by NATO’s main political decision-making body North Atlantic Council (NAC).

Earlier on June 27, the NATO Secretary General and ambassadors from the NATO-member states from the North Atlantic Council met Parliamentary Chairman Davit Usupashvili and senior lawmakers from both the parliamentary minority and majority groups.

At that meeting the NATO Secretary General said that the presidential elections in October, 2013 would be the “next important test” for Georgia’s NATO aspirations.

Parliament speaker Usupashvili said: “Georgia is moving with firm steps and getting closer to NATO membership, which is the choice of the Georgian people and the goal which the current government serves and the goal which the previous government was serving.”

“The Georgian people and we the parliamentarians and politicians expect that there will be reciprocal steps made by NATO and its member states to demonstrate next year that integration process has deepened,”

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In a speech before students in the National Library, the NATO Secretary General laid out the priority areas Georgia should pay attention and said that the country should “continue to work to ensure the highest democratic standards.”

“You are on the right path, because it is the path to NATO’s open door. You are making real progress. With consistent and determined efforts, you will reach your destination. And you will walk through that open door,” Rasmussen said.

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He also stressed on the need for “greater tolerance” and said that the violence that took place in Tbilisi on May 17 against anti-homophobia rally had no place in a democracy.

Rasmussen, who met PM Bidzina Ivanishvili on June 26 and met President Saakashvili on June 27, said that in last October’s parliamentary elections Georgia experienced the peaceful transfer of power and for this the Prime Minister “deserves congratulations” and the President “deserves credit.”

“Later this year, President Saakashvili will step down. And when he does, he, his successor, and the Prime Minister will all be remembered as builders of democracy,” the NATO Secretary General said.

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He also expressed concern over installation of fences along the South Ossetian administrative boundary line by the Russian troops and said that “such moves are contrary to international law and they are contrary to the ceasefire agreement.”

“Fence-building impedes freedom of movement. It can further inflame tensions. It is not acceptable, and should be reversed,” Rasmussen said.

In his speech the NATO Secretary General reiterated that Georgia’s contribution to ISAF mission was not a mean of buying entry into NATO.

“I know that many Georgians are asking how many more of their brave soldiers will be lost in order to gain NATO membership. Let me stress. Your soldiers are not in Afghanistan as a means of buying entry into NATO. They are there, first and foremost, because it is in Georgia’s security interests for them to be there,” he said.