NATO summit held amid controversy
Xinhua News Agency, Madrid, June 29 (Reporter Du Juan Feng Junwei) The two-day NATO summit opened on the 29th in Madrid, the capital of Spain.
In the past few days, people and people of insight in many places around the world have questioned and criticized NATO as a product of the Cold War and its constantly breaking nature and sphere of influence.
NATO Secretary-General Stoltenberg told a news conference on the first day of the summit that NATO leaders agreed to take a series of measures to transform and strengthen the alliance.
In response to the new security reality, NATO will strengthen forward deployments, strengthen its armed forces on NATO's eastern flank, and increase the number of NATO rapid response forces to more than 300,000, he said.
In addition, NATO also decided to provide Ukraine with a package of "enhanced integrated assistance" program.
In addition, Stoltenberg said that NATO members agreed to invite Finland and Sweden to join NATO.
NATO leaders also approved a new strategic concept to guide the military group for the next decade, calling Russia the "biggest and immediate threat" to NATO.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov said earlier on the 29th that the expansion of NATO has created instability in international affairs.
The NATO summit confirmed and solidified the bloc's policy of aggressively containing Russia.
In the past few days, people of insight from many countries have pointed out that NATO was originally a relic of the Cold War. Instead of withdrawing from the stage of history with the end of the Cold War, it has continuously achieved "breakthroughs" in its nature and sphere of influence in recent years.
Solana, the former secretary-general of NATO, believes that NATO's global reach will create a divided world.
Kate Hudson, head of Britain's Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, said that since 1999, every NATO strategic concept has involved further expanding the nuclear-armed bloc, with large sums of money being invested in weapons development and procurement, "continued. Doing so is irresponsible and will only increase global security risks."
The NATO summit has sparked protests in the streets of Madrid.
The Spanish Peace Forum convened thousands of people in Madrid on the 26th to participate in a parade against NATO and against increasing military spending. Representatives from Spain, Germany, the United States, Cuba and other countries and some international organizations participated in the parade.