Peace Summit final declaration
In four days’ time, the NATO summit will decide on a new security concept to act on a 360º
radius, that is anywhere, anytime, all around the planet.
The Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China are singled out as military
adversaries and, for the first time, the Global South appears within the scope of the
Alliance’s intervention capabilities, while for decades after the Cold War, NATO’s strategy
didn’t cover this part of the world.
The new NATO has certified that from north to south and east to west, it is prepared to
intervene outside the imperative mandates of the UN Charter, as it did in Yugoslavia,
Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. This violation of international law, as we have also seen in
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, has sped up the pace at which the world becoes insecure and
militarised.
This southward focus shift will bring about an extension in the capabilities of US military
bases deployed in the Mediterranean; in the case of Spain, the bases in Rota and Morón.
NATO 360º becomes a threat to peace, an obstacle to progress towards shared demilitarised
security. It is antagonistic to real human security that responds to the threats faced by the
majority of the planet’s population: hunger, disease, inequality, unemployment, lack of public
services, land grabbing and wealth and climate crises
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