President Bush Supports More NATO Discussion of Strategic Political Issues

President voices concern over European arms sales to China
22 February 2005

The United States agrees with other NATO members that the alliance should be an organization where political, as well as military and strategic, issues are freely discussed, President Bush told reporters in Brussels, Belgium.

In a February 22 joint press conference with the president following the NATO Summit, Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said the government leaders talked at length about a stronger role for the alliance in discussions of key political questions surrounding operations and missions. There was a great deal of support for the concept, he said.

Earlier, alliance officials announced that all 26 member-nations would contribute to the training of Iraqi security forces, which Bush called a strong statement on NATO’s commitment to freedom. “Every contribution matters,” he said, “and every country ought to be proud of the fact that they’re contributing to the world’s newest democracy.”

The president, when asked about U.S. reaction to talks in Europe of lifting the 15-year-old arms embargo on China, said, “There is deep concern in our country that a transfer of weapons would be a transfer of technology to China, which would change the balance of relations between China and Taiwan.”

Although the matter was not on NATO’s agenda, he explained, individual European leaders to whom he had spoken said they could develop a protocol that would deal with those concerns, but he added, “it is all speculation at this point.”

Calling his travel to Europe a “listening tour,” Bush noted that NATO was his first stop in the first overseas trip of his second term. He praised the success of the alliance and said it was the cornerstone of the important and vital relationship between the United States and Europe.

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