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Ukraine’s accession to NATO will not strengthen the alliance’s security, but will undermine relations between Russia and the West, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. transmit “News”.
According to the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, NATO’s “defense line” is shifting eastward and has come close to Ukraine, which they also “want to drag” there, will not make any contribution to strengthening NATO’s security.
“This <...> will be a flagrant violation of the official political commitment that the presidents of the United States and other member countries of the Alliance assumed,” Lavrov said.
He recalled that, according to the Washington Treaty establishing NATO, a country that is able to contribute to strengthening security can be invited to the alliance, but the North Atlantic bloc does not have the right to “invite anyone I want”.
Lavrov noted that NATO accepted countries with the peoples of which Russia had good relations – Montenegro and Macedonia. “There is no understanding of what contribution these countries make to the security of the bloc, given their military and military-technical resources,” the minister said.