NATO to monitor migration as risk of instability to members

FILE PHOTO: Migrants queue to receive meals outside the transport and logistics centre Bruzgi on the Belarusian-Polish border, in the Grodno region, Belarus December 22, 2021. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

MADRID (Reuters) - Irregular mass migration is among the "hybrid threats" that hostile powers can use to undermine the stability of NATO countries, the alliance said in its new Strategic Concept agreed at a summit in Madrid on Wednesday.

Including such threats was an explicit request made byalliance countries on NATO's outer rims, including the summit's host Spain, which have seen neighbours use migration as a weapon of political pressure.