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14:23 26/06/2012 | MOSCOW, July 26 (RIA Novosti)



NATO condemned Syria’s downing of a Turkish military jet, in a statement issued following
an emergency meeting in Brussels on Tuesday, but did not invoke Article 5 of its charter which
could possibly allow joint armed intervention against Syria.

“We consider this act to be unacceptable and condemn it in the strongest terms. It is another
example of the Syrian authorities’ disregard for international norms, peace and security, and human
life,” the alliance said.

The alliance did not discuss invoking Article 5 of NATO’s founding treaty, which states that
an attack against one NATO member shall be considered an attack against all members and would
possibly allow for NATO military retaliation, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told
journalists after the meeting.