NATO expressed its concern over the use of ballistic missiles by Syria and the fact that their range cover parts of territories of the alliance’s member states, the bloc said on Wednesday in a declaration following the summit in Brussels.
"Syria has a significant inventory of short-range ballistic missiles whose range covers part of NATO’s territory and some of our partners’ territories … We remain concerned that Turkey has been hit three times in the last four years by missiles launched from Syria. We continue to monitor and assess the ballistic missile threat from Syria," the declaration said.
The alliance pointed out that the threat posed by the proliferation of ballistic missiles technologies prompted NATO to develop its missile defense system.
"The increasing threat posed by the proliferation of ballistic missiles in the vicinity of the south-east border of the Alliance has been, and remains a driver in NATO’s development and deployment of a ballistic missile defense system, which is configured to counter threats from outside the Euro-Atlantic area," the declaration said.
