“For 40 years, NATO has not acted outside its territory. During these years, we did only one thing - restrained the USSR, ”Stoltenberg said during a speech at the Center for Strategic Studies in New Zealand.
He noted that “containment was successful,” since the Cold War “ended without a single shot” and peace was preserved.
According to the head of the organization, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, questions arose regarding the continued existence of the alliance, and NATO decided to go beyond its territory in Europe and North America, “to stop ethnic wars in the Balkans, help fight piracy in Africa, and fight terrorism in Afghanistan and so on. ”
Stoltenberg said earlier that Brexit will not affect Britain’s position in NATO.