The organization\u2019s founding treaty “does not foresee any provision for suspension of Nato membership, or expulsion,” the Alliance says.<\/p>\n
Background<\/p>\n
NATO has responded to rumors about a possible suspension of Spain\u2019s membership in the Alliance. A spokesperson for the organization explicitly stated that the charter does not provide for such a mechanism.<\/p>\n
The scandal was triggered by Spain\u2019s refusal to support a US military operation against Iran. It was after this, according to media reports, that Washington began looking for ways to pressure so-called disobedient allies.<\/p>\n
What Washington considers<\/p>\n
Among the options for punishment that appeared in internal Pentagon correspondence were two specific steps:<\/p>\n
Suspending Spain\u2019s NATO membership
\n\tRevising the US position on the Falkland Islands in favor of Argentina would be a blow to the United Kingdom.
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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez reacts cautiously.<\/p>\n
He says the Spanish government works only with official documents, not with rumors.<\/p>\n
The administration of US President Donald Trump has developed a sort of ranking of NATO allies, dividing them into obedient and disobedient.<\/p>\n
According to Reuters, the Pentagon has prepared several scenarios for sanctions against those member countries that refused to support a military operation against Iran. The document reflected the US side’s disappointment with the stance of some allies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The organization\u2019s founding treaty “does not foresee any provision for suspension of Nato membership, or expulsion,” the Alliance…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[305,17,964,5947],"class_list":{"0":"post-11062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-nato","9":"tag-spain","10":"tag-trump","11":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}