The “age of engagement with Russia is over,” UK International Secretary Liz Truss mentioned at a dinner with NATO international ministers in Brussels on Wednesday, in accordance with a press release from the UK International Workplace launched forward of the dinner.
In her remarks, Truss advised her NATO counterparts the “NATO-Russia Founding Act is lifeless and it’s time to solid off an outdated method to dealing with Russia,” the international workplace mentioned.
The Act, signed in 1997, guidelines that “NATO and Russia don’t think about each other adversaries”, in accordance with the unique doc.
“The age of engagement with Russia is over. We want a brand new method to safety in Europe primarily based on resilience, protection, and deterrence”, Truss mentioned.
NATO assembly: Truss’s remarks come as NATO international ministers convene in Brussels to debate Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Based on the assertion despatched to CNN, Truss underlined that NATO can’t permit “safety vacuums” on the alliance’s Jap borders and will “rethink” assist for nations “caught within the net of Russian affect” resembling Georgia, Moldova, Sweden and Finland.
The international secretary additionally urged her companions to toughen sanctions and arm Ukraine “rapidly and decisively … to make sure Putin fails.”
Truss additionally mentioned she is working together with her G7 counterparts to impose extra sanctions on additional Russian banks, in accordance with an op-ed revealed in The Telegraph on Wednesday. Within the article, Truss defended rising NATO spending and presence in Jap Europe.
“For NATO to stay on the vanguard of world safety, it should be daring. As President Eisenhower, the alliance’s first supreme commander, mentioned: “Historical past doesn’t lengthy entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid,” the international secretary wrote.
