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In 1990´s Finland made some clever moves to get Baltic States to NATO and keep US as a security of the Northern Europe.
United States, Germany and Britain pressured the Finnish join NATO in the mid 1990s. Finland did not want to join, as Finland would have had to provide security guarantees for Estonia.
NATO's eastward architect, the US Assistant Secretary of State Ronald Asmus was planning to Denmark to NATO johtoesikuntaa with Finland and Sweden would be taking responsibility for the Baltic defense.
- When was the kind of person that NATO member countries were pushing the old Baltic security of our kontollemme - that Finland and Sweden were the guarantors of security in the Baltic, the former Chief of Defence, Admiral Juhani Kaskeala ret says Iltalehti NATO Extra magazine.
- This idea certainly contributed to the fact that Finland did not want to join NATO, Kaskeala says.
British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd suggested directly by Finland and Sweden to take responsibility for the Baltic countries.
Not realistic
Former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari said US Secretary, Warren Christopher, that this is not realistic. The Nordic countries can not guarantee the security of the Baltic. Finland considers that only the US military deterrent enough for precautionary measures to prevent the use of force in Russia.
Solutions culminated in March 1997, when Russian President Boris Yeltsin and US President Bill Clinton discussed in Helsinki. Clinton persuaded Yeltsin to accept NATO expansion to Russia's borders.
Clinton dominated in inverted Yeltsin, who tried to get Clinton secret bilateral promise that NATO is expanding Soviet Union countries, ie the Baltic countries.
Clinton said that they can not just go to the two of us the men's room and colluded to anything, because all that will be the case in public. Clinton kept his cool and made it clear that the Baltic countries would not be left out of NATO.
In the end, Yeltsin handed over the debate, and blurted out: Well, I tried.
Dodge
Discussions have been described verbatim Ronald Asmuksen's book Opening NATO's Door, which appeared ten years ago.
Helsinki meeting in Russia actually had to give in to it, and the Baltic countries join NATO - as it turned out, years later.
This was a big relief for Finland. If the Baltic countries would not be taken to NATO, Finland could be responsible for at least the Estonian defense, while the United States had slipped out of Northern Europe.
Finland made a wise evasive action. Finland refused membership in order to avoid defending Estonia. At the same time Finland contributed to the accession of the Baltic countries and thus forced the United States to guarantee the safety of the Baltic Sea region.
Finland contributed a little easier by the Yeltsin evil mind. The north coast of the Gulf of Finland so far remained non-aligned. The sea route to St. Petersburg would not only NATO's water.
Miksi Suomi sanoi ei Natolle? Tässä syy
United States, Germany and Britain pressured the Finnish join NATO in the mid 1990s. Finland did not want to join, as Finland would have had to provide security guarantees for Estonia.
NATO's eastward architect, the US Assistant Secretary of State Ronald Asmus was planning to Denmark to NATO johtoesikuntaa with Finland and Sweden would be taking responsibility for the Baltic defense.
- When was the kind of person that NATO member countries were pushing the old Baltic security of our kontollemme - that Finland and Sweden were the guarantors of security in the Baltic, the former Chief of Defence, Admiral Juhani Kaskeala ret says Iltalehti NATO Extra magazine.
- This idea certainly contributed to the fact that Finland did not want to join NATO, Kaskeala says.
British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd suggested directly by Finland and Sweden to take responsibility for the Baltic countries.
Not realistic
Former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari said US Secretary, Warren Christopher, that this is not realistic. The Nordic countries can not guarantee the security of the Baltic. Finland considers that only the US military deterrent enough for precautionary measures to prevent the use of force in Russia.
Solutions culminated in March 1997, when Russian President Boris Yeltsin and US President Bill Clinton discussed in Helsinki. Clinton persuaded Yeltsin to accept NATO expansion to Russia's borders.
Clinton dominated in inverted Yeltsin, who tried to get Clinton secret bilateral promise that NATO is expanding Soviet Union countries, ie the Baltic countries.
Clinton said that they can not just go to the two of us the men's room and colluded to anything, because all that will be the case in public. Clinton kept his cool and made it clear that the Baltic countries would not be left out of NATO.
In the end, Yeltsin handed over the debate, and blurted out: Well, I tried.
Dodge
Discussions have been described verbatim Ronald Asmuksen's book Opening NATO's Door, which appeared ten years ago.
Helsinki meeting in Russia actually had to give in to it, and the Baltic countries join NATO - as it turned out, years later.
This was a big relief for Finland. If the Baltic countries would not be taken to NATO, Finland could be responsible for at least the Estonian defense, while the United States had slipped out of Northern Europe.
Finland made a wise evasive action. Finland refused membership in order to avoid defending Estonia. At the same time Finland contributed to the accession of the Baltic countries and thus forced the United States to guarantee the safety of the Baltic Sea region.
Finland contributed a little easier by the Yeltsin evil mind. The north coast of the Gulf of Finland so far remained non-aligned. The sea route to St. Petersburg would not only NATO's water.
Miksi Suomi sanoi ei Natolle? Tässä syy
