France opposed to opening of Nato liaison office in Japan, official says

Nato statutes 'clearly limit the scope to North Atlantic', official says, with reports that president Macron personally objects to the idea France is unenthusiastic about a proposal for Nato to open a liaison office in Japan, an official has said, days after the French president, Emmanuel Macron, said the move would be a "big mistake". There have been suggestions, alluded to most recently by the Nato secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, that the organisation would open an office in Tokyo - its f...