Second stage of negotiations between Russia and the West, following Geneva on January 10 and Brussels on January 12, the NATO-Russia Council, meeting today in Vienna, confirmed the opening of a dialogue but not yet of progress on the hottest issues.
“A frank conversation”, this is what has chosen to keep the daily online Gazeta.ru regarding the NATO-Russia Council, held for the first time in two years on January 12 in Brussels, two days following the Russian-American summit in Geneva. At the end of four hours of meeting, this is what, in fact, congratulated Alexander Grouchko, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister.
“I think that this meeting was absolutely necessary, it allowed a reactivation of things. Sn this meeting, we would not have been able to fully ask questions which always remained more or less in the background. I do not remember that they were ever debated in such a direct and pointed way as this time ”, said the Russian diplomat.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg also agreed that the discussion “On a wide range of issues, with a focus on the tension in Ukraine” had been “Difficult, but useful”. And “Despite major disagreements, the allies were determined to achieve improvements in relations with Russia”.
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