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Russia Sanctions Transit of NATO Nonmilitary Cargo to Afghanistan
Russia and NATO agreed that Russia would open its territory for the ground transit of nonmilitary cargo to Afghanistan, RIA Novosti reported with reference to Russia’s Ambassador to NATO Dmitry Rogozin. The parties will exchange the respective letters April 4, Rogozin said.
The matter at stake, Rogozin went on, is the delivery of mostly humanitarian cargo for the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).
Russia won’t refuse to deliver the alliance’s cargo despite the clashes on potential membership of Georgia and Ukraine in NATO, RF Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said not long ago.
Regardless, the timing of Rogozin’s statement is illustrative. The ambassador confirmed Russia’s readiness to the transit after the alliance decided against granting MAP to Tbilisi and Kiev. The issue of further integration of those states into NATO has been put off at least till the end of 2008.
At the NATO summit in Bucharest, Uzbekistan’s President Islam Karimov also declared readiness to open the transit corridor for nonmilitary cargo of NATO.
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