Senior US senators have declared themselves in favour of expanding NATO…

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Series Details 09/10/97, Volume 3, Number 36
Publication Date 09/10/1997
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Date: 09/10/1997

...but only if the Clinton administration cuts a cost-sharing deal with Europe. Senate foreign relations committee chairman Jesse Helms told Secretary of State Madeleine Albright that ratification of the expansion plan “could very well succeed or fail” on whether or not the Europeans were persuaded to pay their “fair” share.

“As secretary of state, I will insist that our old allies share this burden fairly. That is what NATO is all about,” she replied.

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