Mr. Speaker, the NDP urges the Liberal government to be more critical in its approach to the idea of NATO expansion and more supportive of strengthening the role of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe as a basis on which to build the new security architecture for Europe.
This new security architecture should be based on a form of common security rather than a collective security based on the expansion of a military alliance that has not renounced the first use of nuclear weapons and whose expansion can only strengthen the hand of those in Russia who, for whatever reasons, wish a return to a world divided between east and west.
NATO should be building for the day when it is replaced by common security measures and common security structures that include rather than potentially threaten Russia and that involve the abolition of all nuclear weapons.