(B2 in Berlin) While his influence is declining, the Belarusian president is seeking to rally his troops against an enemy: the Atlantic Alliance. He accuses it of militarizing its borders. An unfounded and unacceptable attack, protests Jens Stoltenberg
Jens Stoltenberg on his arrival at the informal defense in Berlin (credit: NATO)
Present in Berlin to take part in the meeting of European Union Defense Ministers since yesterday (Wednesday, August 26), NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg wanted – once again – to get the message across.
False accusations
“There is no military reinforcement by NATO in the region “, he assured, lambasting the “attempts to use NATO as a sort of excuse to crack down on protesters, on the political opposition in Belarus”. And to thunder: « any attempt to try to shift the focus from internal issues to external issues to create an excuse to use violence against one's own people is unacceptable. "NATO" remains a defensive alliance “, he insisted on recalling.
A concerned Alliance
While the man who is nicknamed the last dictator of Europe has not hesitated, for a week, to also accuse the Europeans of interference, the Allies admit to themselves " very concerned about the situation in Belarus " and " follow very closely the crisis unfolding there since Lukashenko's re-election, he shared with the press.
