BEIJING, Dec. 3 -- A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson responded Thursday to a question regarding NATO's invitation for Montenegro to join, urging the international community to abandon the "Cold War mentality."

Calling NATO one result of the Cold War, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said in the era of globalization, all countries are linked by security concerns.

"Neither country nor alliance can guarantee its absolute security by itself," she said.

The international community should foster a new outlook of common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustained security and build a just, sharing international security pattern, the spokesperson said.

NATO foreign ministers decided Wednesday to invite Montenegro to become the 29th member of the alliance and to start accession talks in early 2016.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the "historic" decision was "an important step in the Euro-Atlantic integration of the entire Western Balkans region and it makes [it] clear that NATO keeps its door open, to complete our vision of a Europe [that is] whole, free and at peace."