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  • Source: Agencies
  • 23 May 2022 00:19
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The Collective Security Treaty Organization sees the addition of Finland and Sweden to NATO as a source of tension.

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  • CSTO Secretary-General Stanislav Zas
    CSTO Secretary-General Stanislav Zas

The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) has enough capacities to respond to any potential threat coming from NATO as it continues to expand eastward, the bloc’s Secretary-General Stanislav Zas of Belarus stressed on Sunday. 
 
"We have enough forces and means to react to potential threats that are bound to emerge in this situation," Zas told Belarus 1 channel in a comment on NATO’s Nordic expansion.
 
But the bloc’s Secretary-General added that a CSTO buildup was "not on the agenda at the moment."
 
Zas warned that the CSTO - the military alliance including Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Tajikistan - sees the addition of Finland and Sweden to NATO as a source of tension.
 
"Of course, we see this expansion as a prerequisite for tension and further militarization in the region. It will not bolster security, including in NATO countries," he said.

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