NATO Chief Calls for Europe to Diversify Its Energy Supplies - Tasnim News Agency

(Tasnim) – NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg suggested that Europe should diversify its energy supply.

Stoltenberg said on Sunday, "We are concerned about the energy situation in Europe because it demonstrates the vulnerability of being too dependent on one supplier of natural gas and that's the reason why NATO allies agree that we need to work and focus on diversification of supplies", Sputnik reported.

Russia, which supplies close to a third of Europe's natural gas, was not directly referenced, but the recent escalation in tensions between Russia and NATO over Ukraine is thought by some to be a catalyst for his comments.

A report out of the United Kingdom suggested that a Russian "invasion" of Ukraine was imminent. Moscow has consistently dismissed the accusations as incorrect and politically motivated.

NATO allies have discussed wide-ranging sanctions and military action should Russia invade Ukraine. However, the European Union, of which many nations are NATO members, is heavily dependent on Russian energy exports.