Current Affairs Havel, former CEE leaders, call on Obama to resist "creeping Russian intimidation"

16-07-2009 16:54 | Rob Cameron

Former president Václav Havel has joined around 20 colleagues from Central and Eastern Europe in writing an open letter to U.S. President Barack Obama, appealing to him not to abandon the region in the interest of forming better relations with Russia. In the letter, published on Thursday, they urge Mr Obama to boost American involvement in Europe’s security and resist Russia’s “creeping intimidation”.

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