NATO'S NEW SECRETARY-GENERAL FAVOURS REBALANCING TRANSATLANTIC RELATIONSHIP.

NATO's new Secretary-General, George Robertson, of the United Kingdom, has said the European Union should be more conspicuous in security questions and should now become a "credible partner of North America". He was speaking during NATO's general assembly, which was held on October 19 in Strasbourg. "The task-sharing we saw during the air campaign in Kosovo was militarily necessary but politically untenable in the longer term", stressed Mr Robertson, who urged a rebalancing of the transatlantic relationship. One of his...