NATO is ready to continue the dialogue with Moscow and intends to hold a meeting of the Russia-NATO Council (SRN). This was stated by the Secretary General of the Alliance Jens Stoltenberg, reports TASS.
Secretary General noted the readiness of the block to cooperate, even despite the decision of the Russian government to suspend the work of dipms of the North Atlantic Alliance in Russia.
On October 6, the NATO decided to reduce the number of employees of the Russian diplomacy at the Military Alliance in Brussels from 20 to 10 people. The next day, the NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that Russia’s subsequent employees belonged to “unnecessary intelligence agents.”
In response, the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said that Moscow will form a list of responses. So, Russia suspends the work of the NATO military mission, recalls the accreditation of its employees, stops the activities of the North Atlantic Alliance Information Bureau in Moscow and from November 1, stops the work of its permanent representation during the Alliance.
Now Moscow will contact the Alliance through one of the Russian ambassadors in Belgium. The ministry offered an alliance to choose one of the ambassadors of NATO member states to perform similar functions in the Russian Federation.