NATO never gave promises to expand east, said in a conversation with the Agency DPA General Secretary of Alliance Jens Stoltenberg. Thus, he rejected the accusations of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the fact that NATO “inflated” Moscow, reports “European True”.
According to Stoltenberg, in the constituent agreement of the North Atlantic Alliance it is indicated that any country can become a member of the organization. “Secondly, there are documents concerning the 70s and 90s – the Helsinki Final Act, the Paris Charter, the constituent Act of Russia-NATO and many other contracts that make it clear that countries have the right to choose their own way”, – He added, calling it the fundamental principle of European security.
NATO head also noted that allies categorically deny such promises. “The former President [USSR Mikhail] Gorbachev said that NATO’s expansion theme was never rising before the reunification of Germany,” concluded Stoltenberg.
The fact that the Alliance “poured” Moscow, Putin declared earlier on December 23 at an annual large press conference. “” Not a single inch to the East, “they told us in the 1990s. Well, what? I am inflated. Just brandedly deceived. Five waves of NATO expansion. And now, please, in Romania now, the corresponding [rocket] appear in Poland. Systems, “the president noted.