Is it that the U.S. then has more ownership, or NATO has more ownership of this military action?
Mr Trenin says that what Russia wants is a buffer zone, with no American military bases or NATO presence.
Nothing in the Bosnia agreement-in-principle deals with fighting in the Balkans or NATO's continued bombing of Bosnian Serb military targets.
The Americans are already signalling that there will be no formal reassurances or trading with Russia on missile defence or Nato expansion.
On the other hand, China is implacably opposed to the US or Nato intervening in what it calls the internal affairs of other countries.
Without the assistance of any U.S. or NATO troops, the official said, the nationals tried to get a friend out of a Kandahar jail.
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"Being right on the border with Pakistan, it was really an area where not a lot of Americans or NATO forces had been in for a while, " he said.
At dinner parties, what passes for political talk is not about the presidential primaries or NATO air strikes, exactly, but about what these events will do to stock prices.
Another G8 or NATO summit in the West?
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So Mr Sarkozy talks about coming out of the Schengen agreement, Ms le Pen of ditching the euro, Mr Hollande of renegotiating the EU's budgetary rules, and Mr Melenchon of sidestepping international markets or Nato's military command structure.
There are plenty of runners, like the former Italian prime minister, Romano Prodi or the Nato Secretary-General, Javier Solana.
Whether under the UN flag or the NATO flag, the new writ of leftist faith maintains that Europe can replace the IDF in defending the Jews.
So if there are disputes within NATO or elsewhere, let's work to resolve them.
They had hoped that NATO or the United States would come to their assistance.
Germany, aware of continuing sensitivities, will act only with other forces from Nato or the European Union.
But there is no suggestion that it will leave NATO or cut diplomatic links, however strained, with Israel.
And secondly, has General Petraeus expressed or requested more NATO involvement in Afghanistan?
In which context, one might consider the debate to be held tomorrow on whether an independent Scotland should join Nato or not.
World Food Program said the refugees he interviewed could not say whether the planes were NATO or Yugoslav, or from where they had come.
However, Russia, which has sent a series of naval ships to the Horn of Africa, says it will not serve under NATO or EU command.
Though Mr Medvedev stressed the need for friendly relations, he also implied that such countries might not have the option of following policies that Russia deemed unfriendly (such as wanting to join NATO or host American bases).
But NATO has told Yugoslav military leaders that they must get their 40, 000 troops out quickly, using designated assembly areas, retreat routes and exit points, to ensure they are not attacked by NATO or the Kosovo Liberation Army.
Some suggest that, while Israel's peace treaty with Jordan is reasserted, a buffer zone could be drawn up on the eastern side of the Jordan river, perhaps monitored by peacekeepers from NATO or the UN, to protect Israel against an invasion from the east and to enable it to withdraw from the West Bank.
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It remains an open question whether NATO can or should mount another such mission out of area.
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We currently have 68, 000 American forces in addition to I think probably another 35, 000 or 40, 000 NATO forces for a pretty large force there.
The European Rapid Reaction force will have to become a powerful reality - not because of misplaced continental ambitions, or somehow to spite Nato, but to fill a dangerous void.
He did not budge or fudge, but Nato's leaders rather ignored him and just hoped no-one else would follow his lead and start elbowing others out of the way in their desire to get home.
In international security, the Union acts to complement member states that reserve the right to act as they see fit, whether this be unilaterally, through other institutions such as NATO, or through the Union itself.
Hollande can expect NATO leaders to urge him to change or soften his position when he attends the NATO summit in Chicago this month where the focus will be on Afghanistan.
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