PARLIAMENTARY GROUP SLAMS NATO.

The Russian Duma’s "Anti-NATO" group yesterday issued a statement saying that it backs President Boris Yeltsin’s negative attitude toward NATO enlargement and that agreements reached at the recent Russian-U.S. summit in Helsinki cannot be interpreted as constituting Russian consent to the inclusion of Eastern European countries in NATO. The statement also accused NATO of creating an "anti-Russian alliance" among some CIS and Baltic states. (Itar-Tass, April 2)

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