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By Lisa BryantThe NATO meeting is planned just three days before a December 10 deadline set by the United Nations to come up with some kind of resolution on Kosovo. That is unlikely to happen since talks between Kosovo and Serbian politicians have collapsed1 - and Kosovo's Albanian majority wants to declare independence from Serbia.
Defense2 expert Thomas Valasek says the key question for NATO is not whether it will maintain its 1,600-man peacekeeping force in Kosovo after December 10, but just what role it will play.
"By now, the NATO allies should have run through all the possible scenarios3 of what could happen in Kosovo on the assumption there will be a unilateral declaration of independence. And NATO should be fully4 preparing along with the European Union and United Nations for all the possible scenarios," he said.
Valasek, an analyst5 at the London-based Center for European Reform, says those scenarios include how to deal with violence and refugees following a likely independence declaration by Kosovo. But he says NATO is not getting clear instructions about what its role should be from member nations.
Afghanistan is another stumbling block. The United States has asked NATO members to beef up their commitment in there - with little response, Valasek notes.
"It is an incredibly frustrating6 process for the NATO secretary general. It is an incredibly corrosive7 process for the cohesion8 within the alliance," he said. "There are a number of allies - the Dutch, the Canadians, the Brits - who rightly feel they are not being given enough solidarity9."
The Brussels talks will also mark the first time the foreign ministers meet with their counterpart Sergei Lavrov of non-NATO member Russia, since Moscow suspended its participation10 in the Conventional Forces in Europe treaty that deals with arms deployment11 in the region.
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n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩 | |
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n.[意]情节;剧本;事态;脚本 | |
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adv.完全地,全部地,彻底地;充分地 | |
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n.分析家,化验员;心理分析学家 | |
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adj.产生挫折的,使人沮丧的,令人泄气的v.使不成功( frustrate的现在分词 );挫败;使受挫折;令人沮丧 | |
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adj.腐蚀性的;有害的;恶毒的 | |
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n.团结,凝结力 | |
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n.团结;休戚相关 | |
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