MOSCOW, September 1 (RIA Novosti) - Anti-war hashtags, such as #StopNATO and #NoToNATO, have been gaining in popularity on Twitter ahead of the NATO summit in Wales, Great Britain, slated for September 4 - 5.

Twitter users of the popular network join activists worldwide in speaking against aggressive policies of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

On Saturday, up to a 1,000 activists took part in a peaceful march through Newport protesting against NATO expansion and what one of the organizers, the Stop the War Coalition, referred to as “an increasingly aggressive Western foreign policy promoted by NATO” in Afghanistan, Ukraine and Gaza, according to AFP.

Many are concerned with NATO’s increasing belligerence. Pippa Bartolotti, leader of the Wales Green Party, warned that the bloc “so many people remember as a force for defence has turned into a force for aggression” in the last decade, as quoted by BBC. Activists plan to rally for a week ahead of the summit.

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