Contents tagged with NATO-Russia Council
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NATO-Russia Council to be held on May 31
The NATO-Russia Council will meet on May 31, Secretary General of the North Atlantic Alliance Jens Stoltenberg told the German weekly Der Spiegel on Saturday, May 26, DW reports.
"Ukraine, transparency in the military sphere, risk reduction and military exercises remain important topics for discussion," Stoltenberg said. He expressed his opinion that NATO should "manage relations with Russia." This would guarantee that the situation "will not get out of hand," the Secretary General says.
He …
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Media: Russia-NATO Council frozen until the end of the year
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization has frozen the NATO-Russia Council until the end of the year, reports the newspaper Izvestia, citing Russian diplomatic sources.
It is noted that the pretext for such a step was the Russian-Belarusian Zapad-2017 exercises, which took place from September 14-20 at a training area in Belarus, as well as in the Kaliningrad, Leningrad, and Peskov oblasts in the Russian Federation.
“The Russia-NATO Council will be frozen until the end of this year, at the …
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Russian MoD: NATO-Russia Council will take place right after NATO Summit
Permanent representatives of the NATO-Russia Council will meet on July 13th, right after the Alliance's summit in Warsaw, reported the website of the Ministry of Defense of Russia.
"Currently, the inclusion of the issue of safe flights over the Baltic Sea in the agenda of the Russia-NATO Council… is being worked out,” the statement said. It is also reported that Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu ordered a proposal prepared "about developing a system of confidence-building measures that …
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Poland proposes making Ukraine the primary focus of the NATO-Russia Council meeting
The Head of the National Security Bureau of Poland, Pavel Soloh, stated that the Ukrainian crisis should be the main subject of the forthcoming NATO-Russia meeting, Rosbalt reported.
When Soloh visited Berlin, he noted that Russia violated international law by annexing the territory of another state, which led to an increase of tensions in relations between NATO and Moscow. According to the Head of the National Security Bureau of Poland, the decision on the council meeting was taken only after …