U.S. envoy wants Russia to join NATO

Posted by Matt in June 9th, 2008

The U.S. representative to NATO said Monday she would like to see Russia as a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

“Speaking as a mom and as a strategist and a lifetime student and friend of the Russian people, I would love to live in a world where Russia wanted to be a NATO member and Russia had met the very high standards that NATO sets for openness, democracy, reform, rule of law that new NATO members must meet,” Victoria Nuland told RIA Novosti.

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