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President Iohannis stated on Thursday that "defence starts at home", adding that splitting duties within NATO should include dividing financial burdens as well.
He underscored that Romania's and Poland's common interest with regard to NATO is the Eastern Flank and its security.
" I believe everybody knows which are the threats, everybody knows the difficult vicinity, everybody has understood that the Western Flank is not composed of several parts that need to be treated separately, but the Eastern Flank is made up of nations that want to defend the Eastern Flank together, but naturally want, at the same time, to benefit form the support of the other NATO members," Iohannis showed.
"At the same time - and we have both emphasised that in our talks - the transatlantic relation is at NATO's core and we must strengthen it. For NATO, this is vital, just as it is vital for the European Union. From a practical perspective, our expectations are that at the high level meeting in Brussels we have decisions backing the further consolidation of NATO's deterrence and defence posture and we find that we have a boost of the Alliance's efficiency," Iohannis said.
