NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg briefed the defense ministers of the European Union (EU) countries on the results of negotiations with Russia on security guarantees. This was announced by the head of the EU for diplomacy Josep Borrell on Wednesday, January 12.
“We discussed the interference of private actors in our missions with (UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations. – Ed.) Jean-Pierre Lacroix and Jens Stoltenberg, who briefed us on the outcome of the NATO-Russia Council meeting,” he wrote on his page in Twitter.
The meeting of the Russia-NATO Council ended in Brussels on Wednesday. The meeting took place at the headquarters of the North Atlantic Alliance. Negotiations began at 10 am local time (12:00 Moscow time). The meeting lasted longer than planned – more than four hours.
The Russian interdepartmental delegation included representatives of the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. The alliance was chaired by Jens Stoltenberg. The meeting was also attended by representatives of 30 NATO member countries.
Stoltenberg called the NATO-Russia Council meeting “a difficult but important discussion.” He said that the parties discussed the situation in Ukraine, as well as security issues in Europe. The Alliance Secretary General stressed that there are disagreements between Russia and NATO, which “are not easy to overcome, but it was important to start a dialogue.”
Security guarantees are negotiated in three phases. On January 10, a meeting of the Russian and US delegations took place in Geneva. On January 12, a meeting of the Russia-NATO Council was held in Brussels, and the next day consultations are scheduled at the Vienna platform of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
Source: IZ
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