LEBED ON COSTS OF NATO ENLARGEMENT…

Publication: Monitor Volume: 2 Issue: 171

In comments made to Russian radio on September 11, Kremlin security supremo Aleksandr Lebed referred to the "stupidity" of Western taxpayers for their apparent readiness to pay $250-270 billion to finance NATO enlargement. But a top NATO leader, speaking in Ukraine on September 14, suggested that $10 billion over ten years was a more reasonable estimate of the cost of expansion. (Interfax, September 14)

…On Lukashenko.