NATO called for Russia.....
NATO called for Russia to clarify whether it has actually frozen its application of a key arms treaty limiting the number of military forces in Europe as President Putin warned of an increase in the nuclear threat. "The first step will still have to be to clarify exactly what President (Vladimir) Putin meant," chief NATO spokesman James Appathurai told reporters, when asked how the alliance would respond to the apparent move. "I have seen quotes from presidential advisors saying: 'Well, we only mean in six months', I have heard some else tell me that he subsequently said they only mean in one year," he said. "There will clearly be a discussion within NATO, there will clearly be a discussion between capitals and the Russian Federation on what they mean." Making his last state of the nation speech in Moscow, Putin said Thursday that Russia could pull out of the 1990 Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty until all of NATO's current members...