NATO does not want a “new Cold War” with Russia, despite members’ concerns about the Russian military buildup close to NATO’s border, the chief of the military alliance said Monday, according to the Associated Press.
“We are concerned by .... (Russia’s) lack of transparency when it comes to military exercises,” Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said while speaking at the end of a four-day NATO parliamentary assembly in the Romanian capital, Bucharest, AP reports.
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Still, Stoltenberg said: “Russia is our neighbor ... we don’t want to isolate Russia. We don’t want a new Cold War.”
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Later, Stoltenberg said the alliance was beefing up its presence in eastern and southeastern Europe to reassure allies in the face of Russia’s actions in Ukraine.
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