NATO’s Rutte does not see need to invoke Article 5 after missile incident

The shooting down of a ballistic missile headed for Turkey by NATO air defences does not provide immediate reason to trigger the alliance’s Article 5 mutual defence clause, its Secretary General Mark Rutte told Reuters on Thursday. “Nobody’s talking about Article 5,” Rutte said. “The most important thing is that our adversaries have seen yesterday […]

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