According to her, in connection with the “increasingly uncertain situation in the field of global security and more and more aggressive [polityką] Russia ”itself, the neutrality itself is not able to provide protection of protection-investments in the defense industry and relations with allies contribute to this.” I am basically open to a public discussion about the future of the Austrian security and defense policy. Although now neither in parliament or among the public there is no majority supporting membership in NATO, this discussion may be very fruitful, ” in an interview with the newspaper “Die Welt”.
Austria became a neutral country in 1955 after the withdrawal of the troops of former allies of the anti -Hitler coalition, including the USSR. At this point, Vienna regained independence and wrote in the constitution the principle of constant neutrality. Currently, Austria is not a member of NATO, but works with an alliance. Last Thursday, a spokeswoman for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zacharowa accused Austria of “literally constant transit of weapons from Western countries” through the territory of this country, which in her opinion means a violation of neutral policy by Vienna.
