UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT: NON-ALIGNMENT IS OBSOLETE.

Publication: Monitor Volume: 1 Issue: 18

During a visitto Riga May 23, Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma said that “itis nonsense today for Ukraine to be nonaligned,” BNS reported.We are not Switzerland, he said. To the delight of his Latvianhosts, Kuchma repeated his call for a gradual expansion of theWestern defense alliance. On May 24, Kuchma will visit Tallinn.

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