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Diplomats said the ministers would consider options ranging from stepped-up military exercises<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

NATO has seen no sign that Russia is withdrawing troops from the Ukraine border and will look at all options to boost the alliance’s defences, its secretary-general said.<\/p>\n

“Unfortunately, I cannot confirm that Russia is withdrawing\u00a0its troops. This is not what we are seeing,” Anders Fogh Rasmussen told reporters at a meeting of NATO’s members in Brussels, according to the Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n

Ministers from the 28 alliance members are meeting for the first time since Russia’s military occupation and annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region triggered the worst East-West crisis since the Cold War.<\/p>\n

They will discuss ways to boost NATO’s military presence in\u00a0former communist central and eastern Europe to reassure allies\u00a0rattled by Russia’s moves.<\/p>\n

The meeting came as Russian energy giant Gazprom announced a more than\u00a040 percent increase<\/a>\u00a0in the price of gas exports to Ukraine, scrapping a previous discount amid mounting strains between the two countries.<\/p>\n

Ukraine will now pay a price of $385.5 per 1,000 cubic metres of gas, Gazprom chief executive Alexei Miller said in a statement on Tuesday,\u00a0raising the price from $268.5 per 1,000 cubic metres which was agreed in December.<\/p>\n

Diplomats said the ministers in Brussels would consider options ranging\u00a0from stepped-up military exercises and sending more forces to\u00a0eastern member states to the permanent bases of alliance forces\u00a0in those countries – a step Moscow would view as provocative.<\/p>\n

Asked if NATO could station forces permanently in the small\u00a0former Soviet Baltic states, Rasmussen said: “We are now\u00a0considering all options to enhance our collective defence,\u00a0including … further development of our defence plans, enhanced\u00a0exercises and also appropriate deployments.”<\/p>\n

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski told reporters as\u00a0he arrived that he would welcome “some more prominent NATO\u00a0presence in Poland”.<\/p>\n

Financial aid<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the European Union has decided to make a swift payment of financial aid to Ukraine, the bloc’s economy chief Olli Rehn\u00a0said, dismissing the possibility of economic sanctions against Russia unless it takes more action.<\/p>\n

Rehn’s comments on Tuesday offered the prospect of quick financial backing from Europe for Ukraine, which is grappling with increased gas prices.<\/p>\n

The European Union has pledged 11 billion euros as part of a package of support with the International Monetary Fund.<\/p>\n

“It is in the interests of Ukraine and Europe to maintain peace and stability on our continent,” Rehn told journalists on the sidelines of a meeting of European finance ministers in Athens.<\/p>\n

He said the first payment would be “made swiftly”, according to the Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n

But while he underscored Brussels’ desire to back Ukraine, he played down the idea of stiffer penalties on Russia following\u00a0its annexation of the Ukraine’s Crimea.<\/p>\n

“As regards sanctions, no sensible European would want to see economic sanctions,” he said, adding that none should be necessary if Moscow took no action.<\/p>\n

“In case Russia would not escalate the crisis, then we should be able to avoid this sanctions,” he said.<\/p>\n

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Source: Aljazeera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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