Former Prime minister Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici today condemned the government's decision to take Malta back into Partnership for Peace and insisted the move violated the constitutional provisions on neutrality and non-alignment.

Speaking at a press conference by the Campaign for National Independence (CNI), the former Labour leader blamed the EU for the Maltese government's move and said congratulatory comments about the Maltese decision by the American Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Daniel Fried, and the British High Commissioner in Malta further showed how this went against the constitution.

The High Commissioner, Nick Archer, had written that: "the key thing for us is that Malta will be able to participate more fully in European Security and Defence Policy activity, which means that it can, in future make a bigger contribution to keeping Europe safe and to the EU's effort to create a more peaceful world."

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