Invoking NATO’s Article 4 may not be necessary, Polish PM says

World November 16, 2022, 16:20

According to Mateusz Morawiecki, the procedures that are taking place in Brussels seem to be appropriate in the current situation

WARSAW, November 16. /TASS/. Poland found no evidence of the need to invoke Article 4 of the NATO treaty on urgent consultations in crisis situations, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Wednesday.

"Most of the evidence that we have collected so far shows that there will probably be no need to invoke Article 4 this time," he pointed out. "We are assessing the prerequisites for its use," the prime minister added.

According to him, the procedures that are taking place in Brussels seem to be appropriate in the current situation. "At the same time, we still have the option of resorting to Article 4 if we find it necessary," Morawiecki noted.

On Tuesday, a missile fell in the village of Przewodow in eastern Poland on the border with Ukraine, killing two people. According to Polish President Andrzej Duda, it wasn’t a deliberate attack on the country. Warsaw explained that it most probably had been an S-300-like missile made in the 1970s, which had been fired by Ukrainian air defense forces.

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