Posted on 12/26/2021 8:31:32 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
The Russian Foreign Ministry has acknowledged that NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has proposed holding a meeting of the NATO-Russia Council next month, but the Kremlin has not yet said whether it will take part.
“We are considering it,” a spokesman for the Kremlin was quoted on December 26 as saying, according to TASS.
The format of the meeting and the composition of the Russian delegation are being looked at, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Grushko said, TASS reported on December 26.
A spokesman for NATO was quoted by AFP as saying that the alliance has contacted the Kremlin to secure its attendance.
"We are in touch with Russia" about the meeting, said the spokesman, who asked not to be identified.
The NATO-Russia Council was set up in 2002 but is currently inactive because of the conflict in Ukraine’s east between Russian-backed separatists and Ukrainian government forces.
If the meeting takes place on January 12 as Stoltenberg proposed, it would be the first meeting of the council in 2 ½ years and would take place on the first day of a two-day meeting of the military chiefs of NATO's 30 member states in Brussels.
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I do not trust Stoltenberg. Seen to much of him.
Sorry.
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