TASS: NATO set to guarantee free passage of ships via Kerch Strait — US envoy
A package of measures will be approved during a two-day conference to begin in Washington on Wednesday
WASHINGTON, April 3. /TASS/. NATO is set to guarantee the safe passage of ships via the Kerch Strait, connecting the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, and to step up aerial surveillance in the area, US envoy to NATO told foreign journalists on Tuesday.
US Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Ambassador Kay Bailey Hutchison, said that a package of measures will be approved during a two-day conference to begin in Washington on Wednesday.
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WNU Editor: Moscow has responded .... Kremlin dismisses NATO plans for Ukrainian ships’ passage through Kerch Strait (TASS). More here .... Russia opposes US plan for more NATO ships in Black Sea (AFP). To put it bluntly .... what Moscow is saying is that any NATO or Ukrainian ship passing through the Kerch Strait without authorization is a red line, and these ships will be confronted by Russian naval warships with force. So why the U.S. insistence to protect Ukrainian ships right now? Russian TV believes this is the reason why .... Provoking Russia or propping up Poroshenko? NATO ridiculed over plans to ‘shield’ Ukrainian ships (RT).
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