Interfax
March 7, 2014
“NATO factor” to create additional tensions in Ukraine – Moscow
MOSCOW: It is extremely dangerous to add “the NATO factor” to the complicated situation in Ukraine, Moscow says.
“It seems reflexes of the past prevailed and prevented an objective analysis of the situation. We think that attempts to add “the NATO factor” to the already complicated and fragile situation in Ukraine are extremely dangerous, as it creates an additional element of tensions and undermines normalization prospects,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said, answering a media question on the ministry website.
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Interfax
March 7, 2014
Moscow criticizes NATO’s tendentious approach to Ukrainian situation
MOSCOW: The NATO Council’s decision to suspend meetings with Russian representatives demonstrates a biased approach to the Ukrainian situation, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said.
“The NATO Council’s decision to suspend meetings within the framework of practical cooperation with Russia exhibits a biased and tendentious approach to the analysis of causes and consequences of the Ukrainian events,” he answered a media question on the ministry’s website.
“The intention to limit the work in coordinated areas and projects of interaction in the deterrence of common challenges and threats to member countries of the Russia-NATO Council – terrorism, piracy, crises, extremism, natural and man-made catastrophes, as well as in Afghanistan and Syrian chemical weapons – contradict the common sense,” the diplomat said.
“The Russia-NATO Council does not have projects and cooperation projects, which meet the interest of exclusively Russia or alliance member countries,” he said.
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