NATO meeting fails to approve first defence plans since Cold War


A general view of a NATO Defence Ministers' meeting at the Alliance's headquarters in Brussels, Belgium June 16, 2023. REUTERS/Yves Herman

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -NATO defence ministers failed on Friday to reach agreement over new plans on how the alliance would respond to a Russian attack, and one diplomat blamed Turkey for blocking them.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the ministers reviewed the plans - the first since the end of the Cold War and given impetus by Russia's invasion of Ukraine - at a two-day meeting in Brussels and were moving closer to agreeing on them.

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