NATO restricts nuclear weapons

BRUSSELS, Belgium NATO promised Tuesday that no nuclear weaponswould be stationed on the territory of new members in Eastern andCentral Europe.

The announcement was intended to defuse Russian opposition toNATO's expansion into formerly communist countries.

The United States and its allies offered to open negotiationson political and military cooperation with Russia. NATO's foreignministers proposed that a plan of the new partnership with Moscow beannounced at its Madrid summit in July, when the alliance will selectone or more new members.The decisions made at the foreign ministers' annual meeting atNATO headquarters reflected what U.S. officials described as …