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Obama's Afghanistan Plan: The Partner Problem

11:46 03/12/2009

Russia is allowing the United States and other NATO governments to transit military supplies through its territory to their contingents in Afghanistan, thereby supplementing the precarious southern supply route through Pakistan. But Russian officials are now hinting they may limit this support unless NATO countries agree to discuss Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's proposal for a new European Security Treaty, which could weaken NATO's role in Eurasia.

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Obama's Afghanistan Plan: The Partner Problem

11:46 03/12/2009 Russia is allowing the United States and other NATO governments to transit military supplies through its territory to their contingents in Afghanistan, thereby supplementing the precarious southern supply route through Pakistan. But Russian officials are now hinting they may limit this support unless NATO countries agree to discuss Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's proposal for a new European Security Treaty, which could weaken NATO's role in Eurasia.>>

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