NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg assured on Wednesday Washington, DC, that NATO is not seeking confrontation with Russia, but must adapt to ongoing changes in this country and therefore further enhance the mutual defense of its members in Europe.
– We do not seek confrontation with Russia or its isolation and we still hope for constructive relations with Russia. (…) But Russia has changed and we have to adapt – said Stoltenberg, speaking at Washington’s Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova “is not a buffer zone”
He argued that strong NATO will not only provide the best protection for members of the Alliance, but also provide the basis to the best position to lead relations with Russia.
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He assured, however, that we grow, NATO will continue to abide by its rules and international commitments, as well as the organization will remain transparent and predictable. – We will maintain open channels of communication with Russia, both military communications and diplomatic, because there is no no contradiction between strengthening our common defense and openness to dialogue – he declared.
He assured that in this dialogue always will push NATO about sovereignty and integrity of all European countries, including NATO partners such as Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova. – These countries this is not the buffer zone; these are independent sovereign countries who have the right to choose their own path. We will continue helping them – he said. – The more our neighbors are more stable, the safer we are.
“We can not take our security for granted”
The NATO Secretary General also stressed that maintaining a strong alliance requires a “doubling efforts “when it comes to fulfillment by Member States of commitments on increasing defense spending to a minimum of 2 percent. GDP. – We can not take our security for granted – he warned.
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Stoltenberg was also asked about the so-called. Warsaw Initiative changes in NATO. As explained by leading the debate, it provides a take on next year’s NATO summit in Warsaw Alliance such changes to ensure a sustainable, greater presence of NATO forces on the eastern borders of NATO. About this Polish initiative, he said a week ago in the CSIS Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Tomasz Siemoniak.
The Secretary General agreed that NATO requires further changes to adapt to the new security environment. – I believe that at the summit in Warsaw will be the further political, military and institutional NATO’s adaptation to strengthen the common defense – he said. But he stressed that it is important that the summit in Warsaw sure that it has been implemented, what has already been planned by the leaders of NATO member states at last year’s summit in Newport. This should include new rapid reaction force, the so-called. spearhead, and increased defense spending.
During a speech in Washington Stoltenberg also expressed concern about the Russian “nuclear rhetoric” and also carried out by Russia unannounced and on a large scale military exercises, “which undermine the predictability and transparency” . He assured that Russian observers will be able to participate in scheduled for the autumn of large NATO exercises in southern European countries.
Author: Adso // rzw / Source: PAP
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