Senator: Russia and NATO should cooperate, despite a difficult relationship
Despite a difficult relationship, NATO And Russia need to cooperate, it is necessary to intensify the work of the Russian diplomatic corps, said 1st Deputy Chairman of defense Department of the Federation Council Yevgeny Serebrennikov.
Deputy defense Minister Anatoly Antonov said that the crisis in Ukraine has led to the fact that all the positive in relations with the North Atlantic Alliance collapsed. Instead of developing cooperation in NATO has taken the course of confrontation, close to the Russian borders is unprecedented And unjustified the increased activity of NATO, said the Deputy Minister of defence.
"the Deputy Minister is the direction of international cooperation. And if, in their estimation, all the achievements collapsed, I think we should continue the work, " Serebrennikov said Last news on the first day of the weekend.
He said that the mood in the Alliance And among the political elite of the West-permanent. There are supporters And opponents of today's NATO policy toward Russia.
"Despite the extremely difficult situation in relations between Russia And NATO in the 1st place, due to the massive expansion of the Commonwealth to the borders of Russia, our diplomats must continue to work on containment of the Commonwealth, And the settlement of the fall in Ukraine ", - said Deputy head of the Federation Council.
according to his vision, at the present time the Russian diplomatic corps need to step up their activities in this direction, " the proposals already exists And has the ability to be that There is a (positive) perspective ", - said the Senator." need to work closely, " He said.
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