STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Just as the Orwellian-titled Partnership for Peace military alliance is an apprenticeship program for NATO, so NATO membership is now the gateway to the European Union. Unless an impoverished, fragmented Eastern European nation makes itself NATO-ready - depleting its state coffers to purchase Western arms, purging its native offficer corps, subordinating its armed forces' command structure to Brussels - then it's not a serious candidate for the EU. This is blunt, brutal economic blackmail, much like that aimed at Yugoslavia currently regarding the extradition of Slobodan Milosevic and other leaders who stood up to NATO. Premier Positive Slovakia Will Join NATO in 2002, Ready to Join EU by 2004 Jun 1, 2001 -- (BBC Monitoring) Text of report in English by Slovak commercial news agency SITA web site. Krakow, 1 June: Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda said he is convinced that the support of the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary will boost Slovakia's chances of being invited to join NATO during its 2002 autumn summit in Prague. Slovakia's geographic and political position makes us a natural part of the Visegrad Group (V4), said Dzurinda at the V4 summit in Krakow, Poland, on Friday [1 June]. "NATO invitation and the following membership would not only renew the integrity of the Visegrad region and stabilize Slovakia, but also stabilize the surrounding countries," Dzurinda said. The V4 prime ministers are discussing in Krakow current and future cooperation within European integration and regional cooperation. The meeting called for a preparation of a V4 future cross-border cooperation principles that would be submitted to the European Commission. The document's goal is to prevent the limitation of the free movement of people, goods and capital in the border regions after the introduction of the EU seven-year transition period. At a meeting with Polish, Czech, and Hungarian prime ministers Jerzy Buzek, Milos Zeman, and Viktor Orban [respectively], Mikulas Dzurinda repeated that 1 January 2004 is the target date of Slovakia's EU entry readiness. Source: SITA news agency web site, Bratislava, in English 1123 GMT 1 Jun 01 (C) 2001 BBC Monitoring __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
