NATO’s head announces biggest defence reinforcement in generation
The head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) said the alliance implemented the biggest reinforcement to its collective defence in a generation. Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg spoke after a meeting with Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas who said that NATO’s defences are much stronger than they were a year ago.
NATO’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has meant the alliance stands ready to defend its eastern front.
Stoltenberg said that since the annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014, NATO dramatically boosted its collective defence. Kallas said the security of the Baltic states, which border Russia, has been significantly improved since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Kallas says, “We are ready to defend the territories from the first minute, from the first centimetre.” I’m pretty sure that we’ve moved from the situation where we were a year ago by the good decisions that we made in Madrid and also the execution of those plans and now going further with those plans as well,” he added.
Kallas also said that Finland’s recent membership of NATO has been a game changer for the Baltic peninsula, saying it means that were an attack to happen, reinforcements could be shipped from the north through Finland. NATO leaders will meet in nearby Vilnius in just under two weeks to sign off on a new plan for the alliance’s collective defence.
The so-called regional plans are designed to detail how NATO would respond to an attack on one of its members. They represent a priority shift for the alliance having previously focused on conflicts further afield, it will now focus on bolstering its collective defence at home. The war in Ukraine has meant NATO has found a new purpose: adapting its defence for an uncertain world.
Source: SABC
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