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Live Blog: NATO's Warsaw Summit

Key Points

-- U.S. President Barack Obama said there can be “no business as usual” with Russia until it “fully implements” the agreement aimed at ending the war between Kyiv’s forces and Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.

-- NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has called on Russia to halt its "political, military and financial support for separatists" battling Ukrainian forces in the east of the country as the alliance reaffirmed its support for the Kyiv government.

-- NATO leaders agreed to continue training Afghan security forces into 2017, prolonging a support mission in a country that the alliance chief said "still faces serious instability and violence" a decade and a half after the Taliban was driven from power.

-- NATO leaders have endorsed a major new deployment of armed forces to Eastern Europe.

* NOTE: Times are stated according to local time in Warsaw (GMT/UTC +2)

09:08 8.7.2016

Tensions are high as the NATO summit kicks off in Warsaw amid strained ties with Russia, Britain’s "Brexit" vote to leave the European Union, attacks by Islamic State (IS) extremists, and Europe's unprecedented refugee crisis. In a commentary published on the Financial Times website on July 8, U.S. President Barack Obama said the summit "may be the most important moment for our transatlantic alliance since the end of the cold war."

Meanwhile in Russia, the pro-Kremlin tabloid Moskovsky Komsomolets issued a thinly veiled threat.


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