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Medvedev: Russia Ready for Halting Relations with NATO
Russia is ready for any actions in relations with NATO, including halting all relations with the alliance, the RF President Dmitry Medvedev announced in Sochi. “It is NATO that is interested in cooperation, not Russia,” RIA Novosti quoted Medvedev as saying.
“Should they not share the cooperation, nothing awful would happen to us. We will have any decision, up to halting the relations in general,” Medvedev announced during the Monday meeting with Dmitry Rogozin, who stands for Russia in NATO. Rogozin was summoned to Moscow for consulting after the relations of Moscow and the alliance aggravated on the military actions in South Ossetia.
But halting relations with NATO won’t be an easy decision, Medvedev emphasized. “For long years, we have been consistently developing relations with NATO and would like them to be full-scale and of partners. But we need no illusion of partnership,” the president pointed out. “When we are encircled by bases, we don’t like it,” Medvedev emphasized.
The NATO stuck to the double-standard policy in respect of Russia during the conflict in South Ossetia, Rogozin said during the meeting.
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