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NATO has right to deploy in eastern Europe: deputy chief
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VILNIUS, 30 May 2022, (TON): US-led alliance’s deputy secretary general said “NATO is no longer bound by past commitments to hold back from deploying its forces in eastern Europe.”
Mircea Geoana told media “Moscow itself has voided of any content the NATO-Russia Founding Act, by attacking Ukraine and halting dialogue with the alliance.”
Under the 1997 Founding Act, intended to reset the relationship between Russia and the Alliance, both sides agreed to work to prevent any potentially threatening build-up of conventional forces in agreed regions of Europe, to include Central and Eastern Europe.
Geoana, speaking in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius said “they took decisions, they made obligations there not to aggress neighbors, which they are doing, and to have regular consultations with NATO, which they don’t.”
He added “so I think that in fact this founding act is basically not functioning because of Russia.”
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