Russia is more dangerous than the Islamic State group, Poland's Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski told reporters Friday during a visit to Slovakia.
BRATISLAVA: Russia is more dangerous than the Islamic State
group, Poland's Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski told reporters on
Friday (Apr 15) during a visit to Slovakia.
"By all evidence, Russia's activity is a sort of existential
threat because this activity can destroy countries," said
Waszczykowski, who was speaking in a debate on the future of NATO at the
annual Globsec security forum in Bratislava.
"We also have non-existential threats like terrorism, like the great
waves of migrants," he added, according to Poland's PAP news agency. He
described the Islamic State group as a very serious threat but added
that "it is not an existential threat for Europe".
Waszczykowski also called for NATO to approve the deployment
of troops on the alliance's eastern border at its upcoming July summit
due to be held in Warsaw. "This will be a symbol of the determination to
defend the eastern flank. We can discuss the scale of this deployment,"
he said.
Czech Defence Minister Martin Stropnicky said at the
conference that strengthening the alliance's collective defence
capability would be the main point on the agenda at the summer summit,
while warning that Russia "should not be isolated".
He added that Russia was actively "testing the defensive
capabilities of NATO in the Baltic region" where a number of countries
have come under pressure, the Czech CTK news agency reported.
Russia will use rare talks with NATO next week to protest
the alliance's "absolutely unjustified" military buildup in the Baltic
states, Moscow's ambassador to Brussels said on Friday, adding the
alliance was using the Ukraine crisis as a pretext.
The Russian and NATO ambassadors will meet in Brussels on
Apr 20 for their first formal talks in nearly two years to discuss
security issues, including the crisis in Ukraine where Moscow is accused
of backing pro-Russian rebels against the pro-Western government in
Kiev.
- AFP/ec
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