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Russia to Reconsider Relations with NATO
Russia intends to reconsider relations with NATO, Interfax reported with reference to Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Glushko. The changes will also affect military cooperation.
Norwegian embassy in Moscow reported yesterday that an unnamed high-ranked official of the RF Defense Ministry had called them to warn that Russia would freeze all military cooperation with NATO. As the NATO member, Norway will be served with respective note, according to The Associated Press.
So far, spokesmen of Russia's leadership haven’t confirmed the information about complete rejection of military cooperation with the alliance. Russia’s Ambassador to NATO Dmitry Rogozin, for instance, mentioned the cancellation of a few joint operations, in particular, the naval exercise in the Baltic Sea. Russia is still interested in cooperating with NATO and it sanctions the transit of nonmilitary cargo to Afghanistan for the NATO contingents there.
The relations of Russia and NATO clouded on Russia’s-Georgian clashes in South Ossetia. A few military exercises of Russia and NATO member-states were called off after the Russians marched into Georgia.
NATO foreign ministers declared August 19 that their states will revise the relations with Russia in view of its military incursion into neighbouring Georgia and the refusal to pull out of that country. The process of Georgia’s joining the NATO has commenced, Britain's Foreign Secretary David Miliband made clear.
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