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 by AFP Staff Writers Moscow (AFP) June 29, 2022
Moscow said Wednesday that the NATO summit in Madrid served as proof the alliance was seeking to contain Russia and that it saw Finland and Sweden's NATO bids as a "destabilising" factor. "The summit in Madrid confirms and consolidates this bloc's policy of aggressive containment of Russia," Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said, Russian news agencies reported. "We consider the expansion of the North Atlantic alliance to be a purely destabilising factor in international affairs." NATO leaders were set Wednesday to invite Finland and Sweden to join after Turkey dropped objections, as the alliance looked to revamp its defences at a summit dominated by Moscow's intervention in Ukraine. More than four months after Russia sent troops to Ukraine, upending the European security landscape, leaders gather in Madrid for what NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg called a "historic and transformative summit" for the alliance's future. Ryabkov said Russia knew what to expect from the summit. "A new strategic concept will be adopted, where Russia is going to be called a threat to the alliance," he said. "This has nothing to do with real life. It is the alliance that poses a threat to us."
Beijing slams NATO over 'completely futile' China warning The response came after NATO's strategic concept, published at a summit in Madrid, said Beijing's stated ambitions and coercive policies challenged its interests, security and values. NATO also said that China's closer ties to Russia went against Western interests, drawing a fiery response from Beijing. "NATO's so-called new strategic concept document disregards facts, confuses black and white... (and) smears China's foreign policy," foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told a regular briefing Thursday. He added that China "firmly opposes it". "We would like to warn NATO that hyping up the so-called China threat is completely futile," Zhao told reporters. Leading NATO power the United States has pushed for the alliance to pay greater attention to China, despite reluctance from some allies to switch attention away from its focus on Europe. Beijing has refused to condemn its ally Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. NATO, whose guiding document was updated for the first time since 2010, also accused China of targeting its members with "malicious hybrid and cyber operations and its confrontational rhetoric". But Zhao hit back, saying that China did not pose "the systemic challenge imagined". He said it was NATO that is a "systemic challenge to world peace and stability" and its "hands are stained with the blood of the world's people".
Biden announces US military air, sea, land reinforcements in Europe Madrid (AFP) June 29, 2022 President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced US reinforcements of NATO forces in Europe, saying the alliance is needed more today "than it ever has been." NATO will be "strengthened in all directions across every domain - land, air and sea," he said at a summit of the transatlantic alliance being held in Madrid. Biden, who was meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, said the extra forces included: - Boosting the fleet of US naval destroyers from four to six in Rota, Spain. ... read more
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