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Canada to pull out Euro-based military forces by ’97
RUSStSLS. lib 27 : Canada is lo withdraw all its European-Based military (ones by 1997 to save money, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) said here Wednesday, reports AEP.
Diplomats said the decision, announced at a meeting of NATO ambassadors, involved a mechanised brigade, two air squadrons and command staff totalling 3.000 people based at Lahr and Baden-Baden Insoulh west Germany.
They said Canada had ■crapped a plan to trim down this contingent lo 1.100 after 1994. but had pledged lo send armed forces back to Europe If they were needed in a crisis.
NATO Secretary-General Manfred Woerner said that he accepted the decision with "considerable regret." but that Canada would remain In NATO naval forces and keep forces oncall for participation in various NATO emergency units.
A Canadian diplomat said Canada had been forced lo cut spending because of a serious budget deficit.
But she added that the de vision would free funds to pay for Canada's participation in United Nations Peacekeeping Forces. such as the one being assembled for Yugoslavia.
US call
Another report says: The United Stales has asked Its European allies lo help shoulder the costs of some US military installations in Western Europe, north Atlantic Treaty Alliance (NATO) diplomats said Wednesday.
Washington wanted the costs switched lo NATOs budget to be shared by all 16 member countries. liny said This would save the United Slates about 300 millkin dollar a year.
The Europeans, who ate also trying lo cut llwir defence spending, have not yet responded officially to the re-quest. the diplomats said.
NATO's Infrastructure bud-
get. the Ikais share of the cost of maintaining the Trans-Atlantic Alliance, amounts to about 1.3 billion dollars a year, of which 27 percent Is pkked up l>y Washington.
The US request, which NATO officials said was presented lust nsinlh. concerns deports for arms. fuel, tanks and other equipment, plus hospitals. They arc ronccn-trated mainly in Germany and Norway.
The Installations arc primarily for use by US troops brought Into Western Europe to help protect NATO allies in a crisis, but could also be used as a staging area for US forces sent to other regions such as the Oulf.
A US diplomat, however, said Washington maintained that the Installations were there to defend Europe and that It was only fair that Europe should.share the burden of paying for them even though they were under US control.