The official representative of NATO Oana Lungescu believes that the transfer of U.S. military equipment in Eastern Europe violates the consensus of the Commonwealth.

before the MFA of Russia declared that the deployment of military equipment in the United States on the "Eastern flank" of NATO would undermine a key provision of the Founding act of the NATO - Russia 1997.

"Not true," wrote Lungescu in own Twitter.


attached to the message explanation it is reported that the reinforcement of defensive positions of NATO in Eastern and Central Europe is a response to the escalation of tensions in Ukraine where the West accuses Moscow." This fully corresponds to one of the Fundamental provisions of the act, stating, for example, that "the military build-up can be done" to strengthen collective defence ", - noted in the text.

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