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NATO head said the alliance never promised not to expand

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that the alliance "never promised not to expand." He reported this to the DPA agency.

“Even the founding agreement of our organization says that every European state can become a member of the alliance,” he said.

According to him, there are official documents, including the Helsinki Final Act, the Paris Charter, the Russia-NATO Founding Act, "which make it clear that each state can freely determine its own destiny."

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev also said that the issue of NATO expansion to the east was not discussed before the reunification of Germany, Stoltenberg added.

Earlier, journalist Bradley Delvin, in his article for The American Conservator, stated that the main motivation for NATO's threatening behavior is the desire to maintain its own importance, generous funding and high positions of commanders in chief.

He recalled several precedents of the expansion of the North Atlantic Alliance to the east and the fears that have arisen in Moscow because of the threat at the Russian borders.

NATO head said the alliance never promised not to expand