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Lavrov: NATO Plans Contradict Today’s Reality
Russia views the expansion plans of NATO as contradicting reality of today’s world, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told the reporters.
“The threats are common to us and could be fought jointly rather than by mechanical expansion of blocs survived since the time of the cold war or by subduing territories based on the bloc approaches, based on the inertia psychological patterns,” Lavrov said.
Russia proceeds with studying the U.S. proposals aimed at building transparency and trust in the issue of missile defense, the foreign minister specified.
“Nowadays, our American colleagues, without abandoning unilateral plans [missile-defense components in Eastern Europe], offer various actions of transparency, trust, monitoring to us so that we could continuously see each other, so that this third positional area, which the United States intends to station, wouldn’t work against the Russian Federation. We are studying these proposals now,” Lavrov said.
But the foreign minister emphasized that Russia’s principal standing is that the U.S. wouldn’t deploy its missile defense shield in Europe, shifting instead to alternative joint project that would involve Russia and other states.
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