Rasmussen saw in the East and South of the security challenges NATO

The Secretary General of the North Atlantic Commonwealth Anders Fogh Rasmussen at the meeting of Ministers of foreign Affairs of NATO in Brussels said on security challenges, which seem to be coming to an organization from the East and South.
" After the start of the fall in Ukraine in the European Union the new situation emerged in the security field. The danger coming from the East and South, and NATO countries have plans to adapt the measures of collective defense to these new realities ", - noticed Rasmussen, ITAR-TASS reported. According to him, NATO wants to intensify its enlargement to the East at the forthcoming summit in Wales in September. The Secretary General of the Commonwealth called the enlargement process " historic success in contributing to security in the European Union, useful for the Commonwealth and its new States ". According to him, " each country aspiring to join NATO at the conference in Wales will be assessed on merit, and We will provide all support ", to help to join the Alliance. At the same time He added that the issue of NATO membership for Montenegro " will be decided before the end of 2015. Besides, at the conference in Wales will be adopted the package of measures for the approximation of Georgia to join the Alliance." We will approve a large aid package for Georgia to accelerate its accession to NATO, " he said." at the conference in Wales will again confirmed that the doors of the Commonwealth remain open to new members and no member of NATO, the country does not have a veto over that process, " he warned. This wording was adopted by NATO in 2008 After the war in South Ossetia and is repeated every time when it comes to the expansion of the Commonwealth. However, before Rasmussen avoided a direct answer to the question whether NATO at the September summit in Wales to offer Georgia a Plan of action on membership in the organization. Remember, Georgian leaders campaigning for NATO to speed up the integration process, pointing at the " Russian threat ". The membership in the Alliance Georgians promised back in 2008, but is required for the candidate's " action Plan " while never issued because of the skepticism of European States. However, against the background of the Ukrainian event was initiated a series of bilateral talks in the capitals of the countries of NATO. on March 21 in Brussels NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen met with the head of the Parliament of Georgia David Usupashvili. on March 24, the head of the Ministry of defense Irakli Alasania held a dialogue in Spain, before the head of the Ministry of defense talked with colleagues in Italy.


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