07 December 2010

BALTICS/ POLAND/ RUSSIA: WikiLeaks NATO Cable "Bewilders" And Offends Moscow.

GUARDIAN/
     Russia's NATO envoy says Moscow was "bewildered" and will demand NATO drop a secret  agreement to defend three Baltic nations against any military attack revealed by a WikiLeaks cable.
    According to the confidential U.S. cable, in January, NATO agreed to expand a defense plan for Poland to also cover NATO members Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania on Russia's border.
    It also proved an surprizing embarrassment to President Medvedev, who was in Warsaw, the first Russian president  to visit Poland in almost a decade.