Robertson, Rumsfeld Discuss Balkan Peacekeeping, Missile Defense

By Anne Plummer / March 8, 2001 at 5:00 AM
NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson met with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for the first time today at the Pentagon, discussing a range of issues pertinent to the alliance including peacekeeping forces in the Balkans, missile defense and the European Security and Defense Identity. Robertson told reporters after the meeting that recent flare-ups along the Kosovo border are not necessarily an indication that NATO could find itself permanently entangled in a region where ethnic tensions seem to have a stronghold on...

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