BRATISLAVA: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg insisted Tuesday that EU plans for increased defense cooperation after Britain's departure would not undermine the transatlantic military alliance.

"There is no contradiction between strong European defense and strong NATO, actually it reinforces each other," Stoltenberg said as he attended a meeting of the union's 28 defense ministers in the Slovakian capital Bratislava.

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