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While NATO officials are preparing for a July summit in Warsaw, European social activists and prominent politicians have launched a new anti-NATO campaign, protesting against the bloc's nuclear buildup and anti-Russia provocations, French journalist Karel Vereycken told Sputnik.
At the Warsaw NATO Summit 2016, due to take place on July 8-9 in Poland, "NATO will enter the next phase in its evolution," according to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
According to the Secretary General, NATO's enhanced forward presence in Eastern Europe, combined with the ability to deploy NATO forces quickly aims to send a clear message to Russia.
While NATO officials are preparing for a July summit in Warsaw, European social activists and prominent politicians have launched a new anti-NATO campaign, protesting against the bloc's nuclear buildup and anti-Russia provocations, French journalist Karel Vereycken told Sputnik.
At the Warsaw NATO Summit 2016, due to take place on July 8-9 in Poland, "NATO will enter the next phase in its evolution," according to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
According to the Secretary General, NATO's enhanced forward presence in Eastern Europe, combined with the ability to deploy NATO forces quickly aims to send a clear message to Russia.
"NATO and the EU are complementary, and we already work more closely together than ever before," Stoltenberg told Poland.pl, adding that the two blocs conduct a coordinated policy to counter the Russian "threat."
"The EU delivered economic sanctions, and NATO delivered the biggest reinforcement of our collective defense since the end of the Cold War," he emphasized.
However, it would be an exaggeration to say that the Europeans are unanimously welcoming the summit and its controversial and provocative agenda.
Following the event announcement, European social activists and prominent politicians have drawn up a petition entitled "The Warsaw Summit Prepares for War, It's Time to Leave NATO Now!"
"The upcoming NATO summit in Warsaw on July 8-9 is expected to be yet another provocation against Russia. By this call, we, the undersigned, want to say 'stop' to this nuclear escalation before the irreparable occurs!" the petition translated in German, Italian and French languages reads.
"We the undersigned see that NATO is carrying out a provocative policy of 'encirclement'," the authors of the petition continue, referring to the Alliance's continuous expansion towards the Russian borders; the deployment of the Aegis anti-missile defense system in Romania, Poland, Turkey and Spain; NATO's military buildup in the Baltic States, Poland and Romania; and the creation of a "Nordic Front" against Russia, comprised of Denmark, Iceland and Norway as well as of NATO partner states Sweden and Finland.
The petition has called attention to the fact that the modernization of nuclear weapons by the US and stationing new B61-12 guided nuclear bombs in Europe, poses a grave threat to the EU's security, evoking disturbing memories of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.
It urges European leaders to adopt a policy of the "empty chair" at the Warsaw NATO Summit of 2016 and to leave the Alliance, which no longer has any 'raison d'être' in order to put an end to this threat.
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"The EU delivered economic sanctions, and NATO delivered the biggest reinforcement of our collective defense since the end of the Cold War," he emphasized.
However, it would be an exaggeration to say that the Europeans are unanimously welcoming the summit and its controversial and provocative agenda.
Following the event announcement, European social activists and prominent politicians have drawn up a petition entitled "The Warsaw Summit Prepares for War, It's Time to Leave NATO Now!"
"The upcoming NATO summit in Warsaw on July 8-9 is expected to be yet another provocation against Russia. By this call, we, the undersigned, want to say 'stop' to this nuclear escalation before the irreparable occurs!" the petition translated in German, Italian and French languages reads.
"We the undersigned see that NATO is carrying out a provocative policy of 'encirclement'," the authors of the petition continue, referring to the Alliance's continuous expansion towards the Russian borders; the deployment of the Aegis anti-missile defense system in Romania, Poland, Turkey and Spain; NATO's military buildup in the Baltic States, Poland and Romania; and the creation of a "Nordic Front" against Russia, comprised of Denmark, Iceland and Norway as well as of NATO partner states Sweden and Finland.
The petition has called attention to the fact that the modernization of nuclear weapons by the US and stationing new B61-12 guided nuclear bombs in Europe, poses a grave threat to the EU's security, evoking disturbing memories of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.
It urges European leaders to adopt a policy of the "empty chair" at the Warsaw NATO Summit of 2016 and to leave the Alliance, which no longer has any 'raison d'être' in order to put an end to this threat.
Credit to Sputnik
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/politics/20160602/1040675105/leave-nato-europeans-petition.html#ixzz4AY04sIlm
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