The secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Jens Stoltenberg, assured this Friday that the alliance will not have planes operating in Ukraine, thus ruling out establishing a no-fly zone in that country, something that the Ukrainian government had requested. .
“The allies agreed that we should not have aircraft over Ukraine’s airspace, or NATO troops on Ukraine’s territory,” Stoltenberg said at the end of an urgent meeting of foreign ministers of the transatlantic organization.
In Stoltenberg’s view, “the only way to implement a no-fly zone in Ukraine” is by sending NATO fighter jets, which would have to shoot down Russian planes operating in Ukraine.
“We think that if we do that, we will end up having something that can turn into an all-out war in Europe, engulfing many other countries and causing much more human suffering,” he said.
For this reason, NATO allies made the “painful decision” to reinforce sanctions and support for Ukraine, but “without directly involving NATO forces in the conflict in Ukraine, neither in its territory nor in its airspace.”
Stoltenberg received the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, on Friday before an emergency meeting in which the head of European Union (EU) diplomacy, Josep Borrell, and the foreign ministers of Finland and Sweden, two associated countries, also participated. .
Arriving at that meeting, Luxembourg’s influential foreign minister, Jean Asselborn, warned that NATO must help its partner countries, but that getting fully involved in the conflict in Ukraine would be a “catastrophe.” (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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