Blinken Says NATO 'Ready' If Conflict Comes | Farsnews Agency

 (FNA)- NATO would prefer to avoid confrontation with Russia but stands ready if "the conflict comes to us", US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said on Friday.

NATO "is a defensive alliance. We seek no conflict. But if the conflict comes to us, we are ready for it," Blinken told reporters while on his way to an extraordinary meeting in Brussels among top diplomats in the alliance, Anadolu news agency reported.

With the latest developments in the war between Russia and Ukraine, as well as the alliance's response to it, at the top of the meeting's agenda, Blinken also vowed that NATO would defend "every inch" of its territory.