Why nuclear weapons and Nato membership are not separate issues

I notice that Alex Salmond is trying to muddy the waters over the undignified and cynical reversal of SNP Nato policy by quoting from the Nato-Russia Founding Act ("SNP reveals plans for policy switch on Nato", The Herald, July 17).

The quotation has absolutely nothing to do with Scotland seceding from the UK; the guarantee he speaks of applied to the former communist countries.

SNP activists, before jumping on this new pro-Nato bandwagon, should look at the Nato Strategic Concept agreed at the recent Chicago summit which would be binding on a separate Scottish state.

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