NATO er under hælen til Erdogan. Veto-ordningen, akkurat som i Sikkerhetsrådet, er ikke demokratisk. Den er tvert i mot handlingslammende og ødeleggende. Veto instituttet hører hjemme i en annen tid.(Red.)
As summit host,
Spain urges NATO to watch its southern flank
By JOSEPH WILSONan hour ago
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — While Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is certain
to dominate an upcoming NATO summit in Madrid, Spain and other member nations
are quietly pushing the Western alliance to consider how mercenaries aligned
with Russian President Vladimir Putin are spreading Moscow’s influence to
Africa.
As the host of the summit taking place from Tuesday to Thursday, Spain
wants to emphasize its proximity to Africa as it lobbies for a greater focus on
Europe’s southern flank in a new document outlining NATO’s vision of its
security challenges and tasks.
The Strategic Concept is NATO’s most important working document after
the North Atlantic Treaty of 1949, which contained the key provision holding
that an attack on one member is viewed as an attack upon all. The security
assessment is updated roughly every decade to reset the West’s security agenda.
The current version, approved in Lisbon in 2010, stated the risk of a
conventional war on NATO territory was “low.” It did not explicitly mention
concerns about instability in Africa. At the time, the alliance viewed apathy
as its biggest military threat; U.S. complaints that some European members were
not paying their due featured heavily in summit talks.
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