MOSCOW, Jan 11 The EU-NATO Cooperation Declaration says about the complete subordination of the European Union to the tasks of the North Atlantic Alliance, said the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova.
«The joint declaration… confirms the complete subordination of the European Union to the tasks of the North Atlantic bloc, which is an instrument of forceful provision of US interests. Under the guise of «strengthening the transatlantic link», «strengthening the strategic partnership between the EU and NATO,» the tasks fixed in the adopted at the summit Madrid in June 2022 of the Alliance's new strategic concept,» the statement said.
According to her, the declaration consolidated the position of «secondary» in relation to the alliance of the defense policy of the European Union, which actually nullifies the EU's claims to autonomy in this area. She stressed that the references in the document to the norms of international law and the principles of the UN Charter are hypocritical, given the actions of the alliance in relation to Yugoslavia, Iraq and Libya.