Poland, Lithuania and Latvia are discussing whether they should launch the fourth article of the NATO treaty because of the situation with migrants at the border – it implies the beginning of consultations with allies on the Alliance. About this in an interview PAP said the prime minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki, answering the question about the course of negotiations with the heads of government of the aforementioned countries.
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According to Morawiecki, NATO’s fourth article is “a decision that stipulates that the parties will jointly consult whenever, in the opinion of any of them, the territorial integrity, political independence or security of any of the allied countries is threatened.”
“It seems that this is needed more and more. Since it is no longer enough for us to publicly express our concern. Now we need concrete steps and the intervention of the entire Alliance,” the Polish prime minister said.
Article 4 of the North Atlantic Treaty reads as follows: “The contracting parties will always consult with each other if, in the opinion of any of them, the territorial integrity, political independence or security of any of the contracting parties is threatened.”
In NATO explain – the fourth article allows the members of the Alliance to bring up any issue of concern, especially related to security, for discussion by the NATO Council. At these consultations, the member countries can simply exchange information, or they can take some kind of consensual decision. Since the creation of the Alliance in 1949, Article 4 has been applied six times. Last time – Turkey.
REFERENCE… On August 9, 2020, presidential elections were held in Belarus. The regime-controlled CEC reported 80.1% support for Lukashenka and only 10.1% for the opposition candidate Tikhanovskaya. He announced his victory and the “defeated project of the West”, suppressing protests brutally and with sacrifice. The regime openly became an ally of the Russian Federation. Relations with Ukraine fell to historic lows. The EU imposed sanctions against Belarus and its officials. In response, in the summer of 2021, she began to take revenge on the West with specially directed flows of migrants from the Middle East and Africa on the borders of Lithuania, Latvia and Poland. The Polish Defense Minister called it “a dirty game between Lukashenko and the Kremlin.”
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