NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg called on the Alliance countries to maintain interaction with Russia on a speech at Georgetown University, RIA Novosti reports.
“I believe that we must maintain cooperation with Russia, since we do not need a new cold war, nor the arms race,” he explained. At the same time, the NATO Secretary General noted that the relations of the Alliance and the Russian side are currently at the lowest point since the Cold War.
On October 4, Jens Stoltenberg at the negotiations with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov proposed to resume meetings in the format of Russia-NATO. The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, on its part, proposed to achieve agreement on specific issues and discuss the topic of leading armed forces in places of contact by 20-30 kilometers. Stoltenberg refused Lavrov, offering Russia to return his representative back to Brussels.
In September, in September, Lavrov spoke about the refusal of the North Atlantic Alliance from contacts with Moscow along the military. The diplomat concluded that NATO’s co-restriction rate provokes military political tensions in Europe. He stated that the “NATO Strategies” again saw the aggressive actions of Russia where they are not.