Tuesday, November 3, 2009

NATO chief urges Germany to discuss plan to remove US nukes

NATO chief urges Germany to discuss plan to remove US nukes: "NATO will discuss Germany's ambition to rid the country of all US nuclear weapons, Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Tuesday, expressing hope that the move will not be made unilaterally.
'I hope that any step that will take place in the alliance in a multilateral framework and that no unilateral step be taken,' Rasmussen said at NATO's headquarters in Brussels.
'This is a question which concerns all allies. It's a question of overall security and defence,' he added following talks with German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle.
Germany's new ruling coalition will call for US nuclear weapons to be removed from the country's territory, according to a document seen by AFP."