German Foreign Minister Annalina Birbock has accused Moscow of suspending relations with the European Union and NATO amid Russia’s ongoing military operation in Ukraine.
“Dialogue must always continue, but we have decided that the Russian side has destroyed the last form of dialogue available to us, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe,” Birbock said at a news conference today. Sabi. After the informal meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Berlin.
Noting that many attempts have been made to resolve differences between the West and Russia peacefully, the Minister stressed that Moscow has clearly shown that the main document signed between Russia and NATO in 1997 is “no longer valid. ”.
And he continued, “We need to remember that Russia unilaterally withdrew from the base document, not NATO.”
Birbock stressed that as part of its new strategic concept, which is expected to be adopted in Madrid next June, NATO should “consider it and strengthen its eastern side”.
Last December, Russia presented its initiative to NATO and the United States to establish a system of security guarantees to reduce military tensions in Europe.
Russia has accused NATO of violating the egalitarian and indivisible security principle included in the “European Security Pact” adopted within the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, as well as verbal promises made by the West in Moscow in the early 1990s. .
Russia set a set of conditions before Washington and NATO, before Washington and NATO; The most important of these is to stop the expansion of the alliance and Ukraine and Georgia to abandon the idea of joining it and the refusal of the West to meet these demands.
On February 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized the self-declared republics of Donetsk and Luhansk in the Donbass region, and three days later announced the launch of a special military operation in Ukraine to support them.
NATO provides comprehensive assistance to the Kyiv government in this dispute, including arms exports.
Source: “TASS”
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