Europe and NATO will determine their own security, not Russia, - Canadian Prime Minister Carney.
"The security architecture of a free Europe will be decided by a free Europe and NATO, not by Russia and the revised Minsk agreements," Carney said.
He mentioned that about 2,500 Canadian soldiers are stationed in Latvia. Canada also leads a multinational NATO division there.
Referring to Russia's demand for the withdrawal of allied forces from the Baltic states and Poland, Carney said: "Russia will not accept a cordon device. Everyone knows how 'well' this idea worked in the 1940s."
Cordon sanitaire is a geopolitical term that refers to a system of countries united to create a barrier between countries whose interaction could pose a threat to others. The term was proposed by French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau in 1919 in relation to the former Russian Empire.
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