The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharov said that the dialogue between the Kremlin and NATO after the expulsion of Russian diplomats from Brussels is impossible. Her words sounded at a briefing for the press, transfers TASS.
She also accused the North Atlantic Alliance in the fact that he buried the Russia-NATO Council with his actions. “The North Atlantic Block and his general secretary of Jens Stoltenberg personally tried to fame. They just drove our relationship in such a fortune in which they were not even in the most severe times of the Cold War,” Zakharov was indignant.
She also said that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is not perceived seriously the statements of the Council of Stoleberg that it is possible to restore the communication channels between Brussels and Moscow. “In such conditions, working with the alliance on challenges and threats of regional and global security and is impossible, and it does not make sense,” the diplomat concluded.
On October 20, the Secretary General of Jens Stoltenberg said that a meeting of the Council of Russia and NATO was ready to hold a meeting in Brussels. According to him, the block is ready for cooperation with the Kremlin, despite the fact that the work of the Russian diplomission has been suspended. He also noted that he regretted this decision of the Government of Russia.