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Nato weighs up new strategies - and costs

04 June 2014 04:21 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. The cynic might say that in response to Russia's seizure of the Crimea and its harassment of Ukraine Nato countries have moved into high gear launching an acronym offensive intended to set teeth in the Kremlin on edge, APA reports quoting BBC.

US President Barack Obama, speaking in Poland, came up with the ERI - the European Reassurance Initiative - a series of steps to reassure nervous Nato members like Poland and the Baltic Republics worried by an assertive Russia that has sought to change borders by force.

The Alliance itself responded with amongst other measures a RAP - a Readiness Action Plan - a series of steps to make its forces able to respond better and faster to any crisis that might erupt in Europe or even elsewhere.

Reassuring allies

There is a real sense abroad that something has changed. The Nato Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen put it this way, noting that the Alliance faced "a new security situation in Europe.