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NATO representatives refute each other and make statements that do not correspond to the policy of the alliance, stated in the Telegram channel, the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.
The diplomat recalled that on February 2, 1990, German Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor Hans-Dietrich Genscher and US Secretary of State James Baker, after negotiations, announced that NATO would not expand to the east. “This applies not only to the GDR, which we do not want to include, but in general,” said Genscher.
“Genscher and Baker did not know that 32 years later, NATO Secretary General [Йенс] Stoltenberg <...> will easily and casually refute their words: “No. NATO makes decisions together with 30 member countries, there is no decision anywhere in which the NATO countries agreed to abandon what is written in the founding NATO treaty, the Washington Treaty,” Zakharova wrote.
She noted that Stoltenberg’s statements do not correspond to the policy pursued by the alliance.
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