Brussels, June 19 (UNI/Sputnik) NATO members at their Madrid summit in June will formally declare that Russia is "a threat to peace and stability" in the new alliance’s Strategic Concept, expected to be adopted at the summit, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said.
NATO's Strategic Concept is the bloc's key document, in which member countries reaffirm NATO’s values and purpose, provide a collective assessment of the security environment, define security challenges and measures to tackle them, and outline guidelines for the alliance's future political and military development.
According to Stoltenberg, the new strategic concept of NATO will also mention China, whose rise is a challenge to the interests, values and security of NATO.
On May 26, Stoltenberg announced that NATO's new strategy would not consider Russia as a strategic partner.
Russia is designated as a strategic partner in the current strategy of the alliance adopted in 2010.
Moscow has repeatedly stated that NATO is an alliance aimed at confrontation. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in early April that further expansion of the alliance eastward is aggressive in nature and will not make Europe more secure.
Madrid will host the NATO summit on June 28-30.
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