ST. PETERSBURG. March 26 (Interfax-Northwest) - NATO as a military and political organization is not prepared to fight international terrorism, Chairman of the State Duma's Foreign Affairs Committee Dmitry Rogozin, from the People's Deputy Group, told a news conference at the Interfax Northwest office in St. Petersburg on Tuesday.
"Spies, special reconnaissance groups and financial and border control are needed to fight terrorism for which drug trafficking is the chief source of financing," while NATO has become an organization kept out of all real anti-terrorist operations, in particular the U.S. operation in Afghanistan or the probable future one in Iraq, Rogozin said. "The United States seems to have doubts about the reliability of its NATO allies, who simply want to have a quiet life. In approximately the same way the USSR did not trust its Warsaw Pact allies very much," he said.
"If it wants to make full use of the post-September 11 situation, the United States needs to act, above all, jointly with Russia," Rogozin said.