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NATO chief warns Putin over summit


Published: March 28, 2008 at 12:55 PM
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BRUSSELS, March 28 (UPI) -- NATO's secretary-general has warned Russian President Vladimir Putin against "unhelpful rhetoric" against the West at next week's NATO summit.

NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said he was looking forward to frank exchanges between Putin and alliance leaders at a session of the NATO-Russia Council, which he also said he hoped would also be constructive.

Tensions are running high between NATO and Russia as the NATO heads of government prepare to meet in Romania. That's reported to be because of Washington's insistence that Ukraine and Georgia be allowed to move closer to joining the organization.

"The volume of music we get next week will to a large extent depend on the tone that President Putin uses in the NRC," De Hoop Scheffer told the Financial Times in an interview. "I do not know what that tone will be."

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