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Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever rejected President Donald Trump's claim that NATO should have supported the United States during the Iran conflict.
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00:00Well, that's going to be brought on, so I have understood it in the comments of the American president.
00:06But that's of course something that we don't know about it, that's everyone knows.
00:10But that's actually not a NAVO material.
00:12The NAVO, Article 5 says, says that you are arrested.
00:15Then we all go together.
00:17The article says not that if you decide to decide on a different land,
00:22that all other partners have to do with it.
00:24That's not the idea of the NAVO.
00:26If that's expected, then it's not the right.
00:29The consequences of such a conflict are for the world's economy very large.
00:33There is an initiative from the French and the British to say
00:35that we need to stop the free world trade in the streets of Normoes.
00:41There are two rules.
00:42Then the kinetic conflict must stop.
00:44So the war must stop.
00:47And on the other hand, there must be an international mandate.
00:49There is an international mandate
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De Wever said NATO's collective defense clause—Article 5—only applies when a member is attacked, not when a member launches military action independently.

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