Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said the United States is not trying to create a new Western security structure similar to NATO in the Asia-Pacific region (APR). He made the relevant statement at the Shangri-La Dialogue security conference held in Singapore. TASS.
“First of all, I will tell you that we are not trying to create NATO in the Indian and Pacific Oceans regions,” the head of the US Department of Defense said in response to a question about what steps have been taken in the military field. The United States expects from its European allies in the Asia-Pacific region.
Former NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg declarationThe North Atlantic Alliance will not accept Asian countries into its ranks.
According to him, NATO will remain an alliance of North America and Europe and will not be global.
Before that, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov aforementionedHe said that the United States and the North Atlantic Alliance are trying to militarize the Asia-Pacific region and that NATO wants to take a leading role in this regard.