ArmInfo. Turkey opposes the principles and functioning of the North Atlantic Alliance, thereby undermining its unity. US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said on December 1 at a meeting of NATO foreign ministers via videoconference. The Athens-Macedonian News Agency (AMNA) )reported, referring to Greek diplomatic sources.
"US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, in an unusual speech for NATO at a meeting of foreign ministers of the alliance countries, stressed that Turkey opposes the principles and functioning of the North Atlantic Alliance, thereby undermining its unity, diplomatic sources reported. In particular, according to them, Pompeo said on the provocative, as he said, actions of Turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean, Libya, Syria and Nagorno-Karabakh," the message says.
Referring to relations between Greece and Turkey, "according to the same diplomatic sources, Pompeo stressed that the de-escalation mechanism, which does not work due to Turkey's fault, must be restarted," the message said.