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U.S. Urges NATO to Bolster Baltic Defense
James Joyner | September 03, 2008Kurt Volker, the new US ambassador to NATO, yesterday called on the Alliance to increase preparations to defend the Baltic states from military attack, noting that, unlike Georgia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are signatories to Article 5, "so if there is any attack on those countries we will all respond," James Blitz reports for the Financial Times. Volker added, "We need to do what NATO ought to do, not in a provocative way and not in a rushed or hasty way. But NATO being credible is what’s important."
