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(23 Feb 2010) SHOTLIST
1. US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton walking to stage, greeted by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Hillary Rodham Clinton, US Secretary of State:
"Let me state unambiguously, while Russia faces challenges to its security, NATO is not among them. We want a cooperative NATO-Russia relationship that produces concrete results and draws NATO and Russia closer together."
3. Cutaway of Clinton at podium
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Hillary Rodham Clinton, US Secretary of State:
"European security will benefit if NATO and Russia are more open about our armaments, our military facilities and our military exercises. NATO and Russia should have a regular exchange of information on posture, doctrine and planned military exercises, as well as specific measures to permit observation of military exercises and to allow visits to new or significantly improved military installations."
5. Cutaway of Clinton at podium
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Hillary Rodham Clinton, US Secretary of State:
"I think one of our tasks in the next years is to convince Russia that NATO enlargement is not a threat to Russia, not the 21st century Russia, not Russia which has a lot of other pressing needs and concerns some of them being threats coming from other sources, certainly not from NATO."
7. Tracking shot of Clinton leaving stage
STORYLINE
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday urged closer cooperation between Russia and NATO, the trans-Atlantic alliance that Moscow views with suspicion as a relic of the Cold War and a potential threat to its security.
In a speech launching an international seminar on revising NATO''s mission for the 21st century, Clinton bluntly rejected Russian calls for a new European security treaty that Washington believes would lead to a diluting of NATO''s influence in Europe and beyond.
"Let me state unambiguously, while Russia faces challenges to its security, NATO is not among them," she said. "We want a cooperative NATO-Russia relationship that produces concrete results and draws NATO and Russia closer together."
Among Russia''s chief worries is NATO''s intention to offer membership to the former Soviet republics of Ukraine and Georgia.
It also is troubled by US plans to place anti-missile defensive weapons in Romania and possibly other eastern European nations.
Clinton urged more military openness between NATO and Russia.
Relations were frozen in the months after Russia fought a war with Georgia in 2008.
"European security will benefit if NATO and Russia are more open about our armaments, our military facilities and our military exercises," she said.
"NATO and Russia should have a regular exchange of information on posture, doctrine, and planned military exercises, as well as specific measures to permit observation of military exercises and to allow visits to new or significantly improved military installations."
A group of experts led by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is working to update NATO''s strategic concept, last revised in 1999, before the alliance began substantial military operations beyond its borders, most notably in Afghanistan.
The new concept is expected to be formally adopted at an alliance summit in November in Lisbon, Portugal.
NATO nations had a major falling out over the Iraq war in 2003, with several, including France, Germany and Belgium, opposing it and blocking alliance participation.

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