&imwidth=800&imheight=600&format=webp&quality=medium "After Russian drone incursion, Poland invokes NATO Article 4 – What it means")
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Wednesday (Sep 10) declared that the NATO member had invoked Article 4 of the Western defence alliance for urgent talks after Russian drones violated its airspace. This comes after Tusk told the parliament that 19 violations of Poland’s airspace were identified overnight, and shot down at least three drones. He added that there were no casualties in the “Russian action.”
Polish interior ministry said that a house and a car had been damaged in the overnight violation of the country’s airspace by Russia. It added that seven drones and debris from unknown projectile were also found.
“We have found seven drones and projectile debris... of unknown origin,” interior ministry spokeswoman Karolina Galecka told reporters.
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“The allied consultations I am referring to have now taken the form of a formal request to invoke Article 4 of the North Atlantic Treaty,” Tusk said.
The North Atlantic Council, NATO’s main political decision-making body, held its regular weekly meeting on Wednesday morning. However, the allies decided that the meeting would be conducted under Article 4 of the alliance treaty, according to diplomats.
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What is Article 4 of NATO?
Under Article 4, any NATO member can call urgent talks when it feels that its “territorial integrity, political independence or security” are threatened. It is the eighth time that this article has been invoked by Poland since the alliance was formed in 1949, after World War II.
Wednesday’s talks mark the third time Article 4 has been invoked over Russia’s incursions since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
According to Article 5 of the NATO alliance, if one member is attacked, the other member nations come to its defence as part of its collective security. This article has only been invoked once in the entire history of the alliance following the September 11, 2001, attacks in the United States.
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