NATO ignores terror threat coming from south, demonizes Russia instead – Moscow
RT.com
10 Jul, 2016
NATO “exists in a political mirror-world,” focusing on a “mythical” threat from the East “demonizing” Russia, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said commenting on the results of the bloc’s summit in Warsaw.
“We’re currently analyzing the decisions made at the NATO summit that took place in Warsaw on July 8 and 9. But even a cursory look at the results of the meeting shows that NATO continues to exist in some political mirror-world,” an official statement from Zakharova reads.
The summit ended on Saturday with the allies signing a 139-chapter communiqué on measures to tackle security threats, with “Russian aggression” being one of the core points. NATO accused Russia of “provocative military activities in the periphery of NATO territory” and “willingness to attain political goals by the threat and use of force.” The alliance slammed Moscow’s actions as “a source of regional instability, fundamentally challeng[ing] the alliance, hav[ing] damaged Euro-Atlantic security, and threaten[ed] our long-standing goal of a Europe whole, free, and at peace.”
“Contrary to the aspirations of maintaining peace and stability in Europe, the Alliance focuses on ‘deterring’ a non-existent ‘threat from the East’,” Zakharova said noting that the allies’ attempts to strengthen their flanks in Europe to confront Russia would be better placed tackling the unprecedented levels of terrorist threats coming from a southerly direction.
“Attempts to ‘demonize’ Russia in order to justify the steps taken in the field of military construction, to divert public attention from the destructive role of the alliance and some of its allies, who provoke crises and […] hotbeds of tension in various parts of the world, has become increasingly tumid.
The stark imbalance in strengthening NATO’s flanks [in the East] against the background of unprecedented levels [of terror threat] coming from the South [shows] the apparent isolation of the block’s policy from real need for protection and security of NATO member states’ citizens,” the spokeswoman said.
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