Czech Republic Foreign Minister Yakub Kulgank urged Russia and NATO to sit at the negotiating table. His words conveys TASS.
“Russia must abandon unnecessary provocations [in Eastern Europe]. It will be hard, but at the same time Russia and NATO should strive to return to the negotiating table and to the restoration of the dialogue,” said the Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic on the eve of the meeting of the North Atlantic Heads of Foreign Affairs Alliance in Riga.
According to Kulganka, now the initiative in the confrontation between Moscow and Brussels is located on the side of the Kremlin. According to him, NATO is ready for dialogue with Russia. However, as the minister noted, the meeting Russia – NATO has not been held for two years at the initiative of Moscow.
On November 29, the NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that he believed in the possibility of dialogue with Russia. However, he also noted that the North Atlantic Alliance countries need to demonstrate the unity so that “Russia did not want to attack some of the NATO countries.”
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin explained the diplomatic conflict with NATO illuminated policy of representatives of the Alliance. In his opinion, Russian diplomats under NATO were sent from Brussels without any reasons, and Moscow responded similarly by closing the military mission of the Alliance.