NATO expansion root cause of Ukraine crisis: former senior French official

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NATO expansion root cause of Ukraine crisis: former senior French official

STORY: NATO expansion root cause of Ukraine crisis: former senior French official DATELINE: May 17, 2022 LENGTH: 0:02:35 LOCATION: GENEVA, Switzerland CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of NATO's Headquarters and military exercises 2. SOUNDBITE (French): PIERRE CONESA, Former French Defense Ministry official STORYLINE: Finland and Sweden have both announced decisions to apply for the NATO membership. If the two countries join the military alliance, it would end their long-standing policy of military non-alignment. Pierre Conesa, a former French Defense Ministry official, says that all the developments contribute to a missed opportunity to propose an inclusive European security architecture to Russia, wherein lies the source of the ongoing Ukrainian crisis. SOUNDBITE (French): PIERRE CONESA, Former French Defense Ministry official We know this provokes a crisis. For example, Russia's sensitivity towards Sweden and Finland is that today Swedish and Finnish neutrality allows Russia to access the port

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