NATO members stick together against Russia and no one else…
NATO has become the key subject of discussions in the US-Russian relations on the threshold of the meeting between Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama, which is slated to take place in London on April 1. Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov reminded of Moscow’s concerned about the plans to expand the alliance.
The most important thing here is to take account of a certain situation. If it goes about the would-be NATO membership of a country, the population of which stands strongly against the initiative, such an approach perhaps would not correspond to democratic norms,” the minister said as he most likely spoke of Ukraine. “The same goes for the situations when a country roughly violates international laws especially the laws about the respect of the rights of national minorities,” he added. The remark was made about the intention of Georgia to become a NATO member.
“I do not think that such an artificial solution of the questions of NATO’s expansion to the east would strengthen the European security. If NATO says that it wants to become a modern-day security structure, which would respond to global challenges, then there are many other ways to cooperate under existent formats,” he said.
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