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NATO has not broken its promise not to expand eastward. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said this on the air of the ARD TV channel after media reports about the discovery of an archival document in which Western countries declared the unacceptability of expanding the organization.
“Not. NATO makes decisions together with 30 member countries, there is no decision anywhere in which the NATO countries agreed to abandon what is written in the founding NATO treaty, the Washington Treaty,” Stoltenberg said.
According to him, according to the agreement, European countries can join NATO. This is stated in other international documents that “define security in Europe”, including the Helsinki Final Act and the 1990 Paris Charter.
Earlier, Spiegel reported that a 1991 document was found in the UK National Archives, in which Western countries declared the eastward expansion of the North Atlantic Alliance unacceptable.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Moscow was “swindled, blatantly deceived” by Western countries, who promised that the North Atlantic Alliance would not expand to the east.
Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov also said that the expansion of NATO into Ukraine and other countries that were on the territory of the Soviet Union “is already a matter of, well, actually life and death for us.” He added that for two decades “we have been methodically deceived” and Russia’s security is at risk.
Source: Rosbalt
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