NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg speaks at a press conference after the meeting of the North Atlantic Council at the level of foreign ministers at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, on Nov. 20, 2019. (Xinhua/Zheng Huansong)
“The alliance’s military planning is aimed at achieving excellence in all environments with all the ensuing consequences in the form of militarization, escalation of tension,” said Zakharova.
MOSCOW, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) — Moscow is concerned that NATO has recognized space as an operational domain, which is not in accordance with the interests of global security, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said Thursday.
“The alliance’s military planning is aimed at achieving excellence in all environments with all the ensuing consequences in the form of militarization, escalation of tension,” Zakharova told a news briefing.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday that the alliance had agreed to include space as its new operational domain alongside air, land, sea and cyber, but NATO would not deploy weapons there.
“Now the alliance has reached space. We, of course, will carefully monitor how … NATO Secretary General Mr. Stoltenberg’s assurance that the organization does not intend to deploy weapons in space will be implemented,” she added. ■
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