Currently, there is a real risk of a new armed conflict in Europe and the North Atlantic Alliance will do everything possible to prevent it. This was announced by the Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg at a press conference following the meeting of the Council Russia – NATO for security guarantees. His performance broadcasts YouTube Channel Reuters.
Stoltenberg stressed the importance of the negotiations under January 12 with Russia in Brussels. That’s why we are so clearly talking in our Message of Russia that they are ready to sit down and transfer a wide range of issues – control over arms, mutual restrictions on rockets and many questions – to prevent the new armed conflict, “the Secretary said.
In his speech, Jens Stoltenberg also stressed that the participants of the North Atlantic Alliance confirmed the NATO open doors policies and the intention to protect each other in the case of armed conflict. NATO member countries clearly made it clear that they would not refuse the principles of collective protection.
Also, the Alliance Secretary General challenged the approval about the aggressive expansion of NATO to the East. According to him, the former Soviet republics and members of the organization of the Warsaw Agreement (ATS) in Eastern Europe themselves chose NATO membership. Stoltenberg stated that the extension of NATO became the cornerstone of the spread of democracy and freedom in Europe.