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23 of April, 21:31

Icelandic people NATO in its current form is outdated structure And does not meet the challenges of our time, for this reason, Iceland should not be a part of this Commonwealth, the Agency Sputnik, the head of the constitutional Department of the Icelandic Parliament Ogmundur Jonasson.

"I am against of belonging to such military alliances like NATO. I think it's the structure of the preceding. And therefore, I am opposed to cooperation within NATO, " said Jonasson.

He added that introduced in the Icelandic Parliament a draft law on holding a national referendum on the issue of whether Iceland should be out of NATO or not.

"I think now will be more willing to leave NATO than it was a few years ago. I see military danger everywhere in the world but not in the Northern hemisphere, " He said.

Left-green movement (left political party) Iceland is a member of Jonasson, agitates Iceland to leave NATO, at least since 2011. Resolution calling for a referendum on the issue under consideration was presented in September 2014.

first, in April, Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General, visited Iceland for talks on security issues, including the current situation in Ukraine, with Prime Minister David Gunnlaugsson And a number of other high position bureaucrats. He highly assessed Reykjavik for " important contributions to NATO And international security ".

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