A Media Question in Connection With the EU-NATO Joint Declaration Signed in Brussels
Russian Foreign Ministry (МИД России) | Response by Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson M.V. Zakharova to a media question on the EU-NATO joint declaration signed in Brussels | Read in full
Question: How would you comment on the signing in Brussels of the Joint Declaration on EU-NATO Cooperation?
💬 Zakharova: The joint declaration on EU-NATO cooperation reaffirms the total subordination of the European Union to the objectives of the North Atlantic bloc, which is an instrument of forceful enforcement of US interests. ● Security in the Euro-Atlantic region - in violation of all OSCE commitments - is seen through the prism of countering our country, increasing supplies of weapons and military equipment to the Kiev regime, increasing military mobility in the European 'theatre of war' and further NATO expansion. ● It is obvious that aggressive and confrontational approaches of NATO and the European Union to the states pursuing independent foreign policy, attempts to divide the states into "friendly" and "alien" will only impede the peaceful settlement of conflicts, weaken the international security in the face of the continuing challenges of terrorism, the threat of which, incidentally, is recognized in the document. ● The motives of the Americans are clear - to drag the EU into the "global rivalry" declared by Washington, as the declaration says, and then the Europeans will have the unenviable fate of an American vassal, losing their position in world politics and economy, becoming increasingly dependent on Washington with each step. (Translation: DeepL.com)