STRASBOURG, France, April 2 (UPI) -- Western NATO powers and Turkey, the alliance's only Muslim member state, are heading toward a faceoff over who will be the next NATO chief at this weekend's summit in France and Germany.

BRUSSELS, April 1 (UPI) -- Moscow prefers to remain a NATO observer rather than become a member, but doesn't rule out joining in the future, the Russian envoy to the alliance says.

BRUSSELS, March 16 (UPI) -- Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski says his country supports a suspension of sanctions against Belarus imposed by the European Union.

BRUSSELS, March 5 (UPI) -- NATO members meeting in Brussels say they've begun considering successors to Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, who ends his term as NATO secretary-general July 31.

MOSCOW, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- The head of a Moscow think tank said Thursday U.S. plans to install Patriot missiles in Poland justify Russian delay on a new arms reduction treaty.

WARSAW, Poland, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Polish officials Monday pledged to track down and punish Taliban militants who beheaded a Polish engineer in Pakistan's border provinces with Afghanistan.

WARSAW, Poland, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski says his goal for the new year is a stronger position for Poland within Europe.

WARSAW, Poland, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Poland's foreign minister says his country won't lobby Barack Obama once he becomes U.S. president to go ahead with basing defense missiles in Poland.

WARSAW, Poland, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Poland and the Czech Republic say they hope U.S. President-elect Barack Obama remains committed to an Eastern European missile defense shield.