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A senior NATO official on Friday recalled the US's attachment to the principle of collective defense in case of aggression against a member state, which Trump ignored when speaking of Montenegro in an interview this week. 19659003] NATO's collective defense clause, article 5, is unconditional and armed. This means that an attack against one of the members is an attack on everyone "Friday answered the official at a question from the AFP news agency
" the president Trump made it clear that the United States is fully committed to NATO and that the alliance is strong "at the NATO summit in Brussels on July 11 and 12, added the official who preferred to speak on condition of anonymity
The journalist interviewed: " If, for example, Montenegro is attacked, why should my son to go to Montenegro? to defend them? "to which Donald Trump replied:" I understand what you say, I asked the same question ", also considering that" Montenegro is a very small country, with very strong and very aggressive people
Trump even suggested that this aggression could trigger the "Third World War" if the other members of the Atlantic Alliance were to defend Montenegro.
Trump's remarks were answered by Montenegro, who said the statement describes the country as "a stabilizing state in the region, the only one that has not organized fighting during the disintegration of the former -Yugoslavia "during the conflicts in the 1990s, causing a total of about 130,000 deaths.
The Montenegrin government added in the note that "the friendship and alliance between Montenegro and the United States is strong and inalienable."
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