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NATO's new
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NATO must focus on the threats of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, said a top U.S. diplomat visiting European capitals to discuss the next round of expansion of the Western alliance.
Marc Grossman, undersecretary of state for political affairs, said terrorism and biological and chemical weapons are the "new threat" facing the alliance, after a meeting in Turkey with Ugur Ziyal, undersecretary at the Turkish Foreign Ministry.
"These are the new threats. These are the kinds of things the alliance ought to be talking about," Mr. Grossman told the Associated Press.
Mr. Grossman also recommitted the United States to a further expansion of the alliance at a NATO summit meeting in November.
"NATO should continue to be open and expand to the new democracies of Europe that are ready to bear the responsibilities," he said.
Mr. Ziyal added, "Turkey wants the expansion to be as broad as possible."
Albania, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia have applied for NATO membership.
Meanwhile, another U.S. envoy pledged that the United States would work closely with NATO to apprehend the two most wanted war-crimes suspects in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Pierre-Richard Prosper, the U.S. ambassador at large for war crimes, said Bosnia cannot return to normal until Radovan Karadzic, Ratko Mladic and about 20 other fugitives are turned over to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. The court has indicted Mr. Karadzic, the wartime Bosnian Serb president, and Gen. Mladic, his military commander, for genocide during the 1992-95 war.
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