Stoltenberg: NATO confronts Russia's attempts to split the alliance

NATO successfully opposes Russia's attempts to split the alliance. This was stated by the Secretary General of the organization Jens Stoltenberg in an interview with CNN.

"For a long time, we see a more decisive Russia that uses various methods to intimidate its neighbors and divide the North Atlantic Alliance," Stoltenberg said. He emphasized that these attempts remain unsuccessful, as NATO members are “inhabited” to them.

NATO member countries responded to Russian challenges by strengthening the unity of the Alliance, Stoltenberg said. “In addition, we adapted our military policy to the new security environment,” the Secretary General said.

Commenting on the events in Syria, Stoltenberg noted that in NATO they were “concerned about the strengthening of Russia, including the deployment of aviation and ground forces, as well as the presence in the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea.” In response, the alliance is forced to increase the military presence in Turkey and the eastern part of the Mediterranean, he emphasized.

On February 9, Stoltenberg said that Russia "is ready to use the armed forces to intimidate the neighbors and in order to redraw the borders in Europe, as we observed in the example of Ukraine and in Georgia." He emphasized that this requires a reaction from NATO . Now one of the main questions for NATO on the agenda is Ukraine, and the Alliance will continue to support it "politically and practically," Stoltenberg said. He recalled the need to cease to be in the Donbass and the implementation of the Minsk agreements. At the same time, Stoltenberg emphasized that NATO seeks to avoid confrontation and a new Cold War.

On February 13, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, in a speech at the Munich Security Conference, said that a new cold war was coming between NATO and Russia. “It remains unfriendly and closed, according to our assessment, the political line of NATO against Russia. We can say more sharply: we rolled up during the New Cold War,” Medvedev said. “Almost daily we are declared the most terrible threat for NATO as a whole, then separately for Europe and other countries. Frightening films in which the Russians are starting a nuclear war. I sometimes think in 2016 or in 2016 or in 2016 or in 2016 or in 2016 or in 2016 or in 2016 or in 2016 or in 2016 1962? " The world community does not need a "third world shake" to understand the advantage of cooperation on confrontation, Medvedev said.