Spain’s Chief of Defense Staff Teodoro López Calderón, announced today that the next NATO Strategic Concept would explicitly state the necessity to safeguard the “territoriality” of its member countries, including for the first time Ceuta and Melilla.
A revision of the strategic concept is expected to include for the first time the defense of “the sovereignty and territorial integrity” of allied countries as a fundamental mission of the organization, according to sources who have had access to the latest drafts of the document, Spanish media reported.
The inclusion of this principle in the Strategic Concept, the second most important text of the Atlantic Alliance, means that the cities of Ceuta and Melilla will be protected under the NATO umbrella.
Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares has advocated for NATO to widen its mandate to address non-military challenges in Africa, such as “political manipulation of oil resources and illegal immigration.”
“The threats are as much from the southern flank as from the eastern flank,” he told a Madrid news conference last week.
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