L’#OTAN adopte de nouveaux plans pour la défense des #pays_baltes, notamment suite au retournement de position de l’Allemagne, traditionnellement méfiant sur cette question. #cablegate
WikiLeaks cables reveal secret Nato plans to defend Baltics from Russia | The Guardian
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/06/wikileaks-cables-nato-russia-baltics
But the bottom line is that there is enough political will in Nato now to do defence plans for the Baltic states. The opposition has melted away over the past 18 months," said Tomas Valasek, defence analyst at the Centre for European Reform. He worked with Madeleine Albright, the former US secretary of state, on drafting Nato’s new “strategic concept” this year.In a meeting last December in Brussels with the Nato ambassadors from Poland, the three Baltic states and the Nato secretary-general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, together with the US and German ambassadors, Ivo Daalder and Ulrich Brandenburg, secured agreement on the new policy.
“Ambassador Daalder acknowledged in these meetings that Germany had initiated the proposal,” says another secret cable. The east Europeans were delighted. Paul Teesalu, a senior Estonian diplomat, described the policy shift as “an early Christmas present” when told last December in Tallinn, according to a cable.