China: NATO stirring up confrontations between blocs and powers around the world is unacceptable

New York (ST): China has renewed its rejection of the practices of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization “NATO” that is based on provoking confrontations between blocs and powers around the world.

China’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Zhang Jun, said during a Security Council briefing on Ukraine yesterday evening that “practices such as clinging to outdated security doctrine and keenness to provoke confrontation between the blocs and create tensions in Europe and even the Asia-Pacific region are harmful to others and the perpetrators themselves.”

Commenting on the situation in Ukraine, Zhang stressed that building one country’s security at the expense of other countries’ insecurity is neither reasonable nor feasible and that NATO’s repeated eastward expansion after the Cold War not only failed to make Europe safer but also left seeds for conflict.

The Chinese delegate added that, contrary to its claim that NATO is a defensive organization by nature, it deliberately waged wars against sovereign countries, causing huge losses and humanitarian disasters.

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