Turkey blocked the decision due to disagreements over wording on geographic locations, particularly Cyprus.
NATO defense ministers failed to reach agreement on new defense plans for how the Alliance would respond in the event of Russian aggression. One of the diplomats accused Turkey of blocking them. Reuters reported this on Friday, June 16.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that during a two-day meeting in Brussels, ministers revised defense plans for the first time since the end of the Cold War and came closer to agreeing on them.
According to one of the diplomats, Turkey blocked the decision due to differences in wording in geographical locations, in particular, Cyprus.
The alliance plans to find a solution at the July summit in Vilnius. In addition, NATO will provide countries with guidance on modernizing their forces and logistics.
It was noted that the regional plans consisted of thousands of pages of secret military plans detailing how NATO would respond in the event of a Russian attack.
For decades, NATO did not see the need for large-scale defense plans, as it waged small wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and believed that some post-Soviet countries no longer posed an existential threat to Alliance.
After the outbreak of a large-scale war on the territory of Ukraine, the Alliance announced the need to coordinate plans before a conflict erupts with an adversary like Russia.
It will be remembered that the other day Germany adopted a national security strategy in which Russia was recognized as the biggest threat to the world.
Source: korrespondent
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