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NATO Nations Holding Third Straight Day of Emergency Meetings
Aired February 12, 2003 - 08:16 ET
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JONATHAN KARL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: NATO nations this morning are holding a third straight day of emergency meetings. They're hoping to resolve the crisis that began when France, Germany and Belgium blocked military assistance for Turkey in case of a war with Iraq.
Our Matthew Chance is there at the nation's, the alliance's headquarters in Brussels and joins us now.
MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Thank you, Jonathan.
The NATO ambassadors have so far failed to break the deadlock, which has essentially paralyzed the world's most powerful military alliance. France, Germany and Belgium still opposed to the idea of sending NATO forces and equipment to Turkey to help it bolster its defenses along its borders with Iraq as war looms between the United States and its allies and Baghdad.
One of the consent -- one of the NATO spokeswomen we've been speaking to says there is a consensus, a plan on the table that would involve taking away NATO troops from any plan to defend Turkey at this stage. But there's still no indication that France is willing to step back from its opposition position on this. France, of course, saying that it is opposed to the idea of a deployment because it would undermine diplomatic efforts to bring to a peaceful end the Iraq crisis -- Jonathan.
KARL: Matthew, this is the third day of meetings on this. How long are they prepared to go?
CHANCE: Well, they've stepped back from the emergency crisis meetings for today. This was already going to be a weekly session for the NATO ambassadors. They're planning to reconvene their emergency session at 6:00 p.m. local time, in about three hours, two and a half hours -- sorry, three and a half hours from now.
But, you know, they're going to have to go on until they find some consensus on this issue of helping out one single NATO ally.
KARL: Good luck with that.
Matthew, thank you very much.
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Aired February 12, 2003 - 08:16 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
JONATHAN KARL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: NATO nations this morning are holding a third straight day of emergency meetings. They're hoping to resolve the crisis that began when France, Germany and Belgium blocked military assistance for Turkey in case of a war with Iraq.
Our Matthew Chance is there at the nation's, the alliance's headquarters in Brussels and joins us now.
MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Thank you, Jonathan.
The NATO ambassadors have so far failed to break the deadlock, which has essentially paralyzed the world's most powerful military alliance. France, Germany and Belgium still opposed to the idea of sending NATO forces and equipment to Turkey to help it bolster its defenses along its borders with Iraq as war looms between the United States and its allies and Baghdad.
One of the consent -- one of the NATO spokeswomen we've been speaking to says there is a consensus, a plan on the table that would involve taking away NATO troops from any plan to defend Turkey at this stage. But there's still no indication that France is willing to step back from its opposition position on this. France, of course, saying that it is opposed to the idea of a deployment because it would undermine diplomatic efforts to bring to a peaceful end the Iraq crisis -- Jonathan.
KARL: Matthew, this is the third day of meetings on this. How long are they prepared to go?
CHANCE: Well, they've stepped back from the emergency crisis meetings for today. This was already going to be a weekly session for the NATO ambassadors. They're planning to reconvene their emergency session at 6:00 p.m. local time, in about three hours, two and a half hours -- sorry, three and a half hours from now.
But, you know, they're going to have to go on until they find some consensus on this issue of helping out one single NATO ally.
KARL: Good luck with that.
Matthew, thank you very much.
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