NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned China on Wednesday of the “profound implications” of possible military aid to Russia in the invasion of Ukraine, considering that it would be a “historic mistake” to help the Kremlin (Russian Presidency). .
“The Allies have made it clear that any lethal aid [da China] It will be a historic mistake with profound implications”, warned the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), at a press conference at the headquarters of the Atlantic Alliance, in Brussels, Belgium, after a meeting between Foreign Ministers Alliance Foreign Affairs with representatives from South Korea, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.
Asked about the warning he issued, Stoltenberg did not specify what the consequences would be: “There is no need to go into details, but China knows what would happen.”
And he went on to criticize the People’s Republic of China for “echoing Russian propaganda” and for “continuing to refuse to condemn the brutal aggression” against Ukraine.
From the perspective of the secretary general of the political-military organization of which Portugal and 30 other countries are a part, Beijing and Moscow intend to destabilize and reorder the international geopolitical scenario.
“That is why it is even more important that we stay together,” he said, adding that the current 31 NATO member states (Finnish’s membership was formalized on Tuesday) agreed that “Sweden has to become an ally as soon as possible ”.
Sweden and Finland submitted membership applications at the same time, in May 2022, but Helsinki ended up being admitted first, as the Swedish applications have yet to receive support from member states Hungary and Turkey.
In the case of Turkey, the government requires Sweden to stop supporting Kurdish groups considered terrorist by Ankara.
Finland and Sweden applied to join only a few months after the start of Russia’s military offensive in Ukraine, marking the end of its traditional policy of military non-alignment.
The officialization of Finland as the 31st NATO member state occurred on the first day of the meeting of the heads of the alliance’s diplomacy, which ends this Wednesday in Brussels.
The Russian military offensive on Ukrainian territory, launched on February 24 last year, plunged Europe into what is considered the most serious security crisis since World War II (1939-1945).
Source: TSF
