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Interview by Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to NATO A.Grushko to the TV Channel "Rossiya-24"
Interview by Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to NATO A.Grushko to the TV Channel "Rossiya-24"
11 July 2016
"NATO should be aware that the counterbalancing operation will require steps to create the balance we used to have before NATO’s attempts to create a counter potential at the borders that are now already NATO’s borders".
"Indeed, these decisions do not match [the Russia-NATO Founding Act]. "We are dealing with a significant change in the military-political situation. There is no parity of forces which used to exist before all the latest NATO preparations".
"Four battalions are only part of NATO efforts, which also include a US initiative of building confidence in Europe".
"We have an integrated rather than an isolated approach to this activity: how all NATO steps and measures, including defense planning, affect the pan-European security and our interests from the point of view of maintaining our defense capability at a due level".
"Obviously, the Warsaw declaration was meant as a crutch to prop up the European Union after [British Prime Minister David] Cameron performed a surgery to amputate a part of the European Union". "Now, the European Union and NATO will pool their efforts to rebuff hybrid threats, to protect the cyberspace. They will be working together in the sphere of strategic communications, this is how counter-propaganda is translated into the language of the West. They will try to revive cooperation in the sphere of defense industry, and so on."
"Indeed, these decisions do not match [the Russia-NATO Founding Act]. "We are dealing with a significant change in the military-political situation. There is no parity of forces which used to exist before all the latest NATO preparations".
"Four battalions are only part of NATO efforts, which also include a US initiative of building confidence in Europe".
"We have an integrated rather than an isolated approach to this activity: how all NATO steps and measures, including defense planning, affect the pan-European security and our interests from the point of view of maintaining our defense capability at a due level".
"Obviously, the Warsaw declaration was meant as a crutch to prop up the European Union after [British Prime Minister David] Cameron performed a surgery to amputate a part of the European Union". "Now, the European Union and NATO will pool their efforts to rebuff hybrid threats, to protect the cyberspace. They will be working together in the sphere of strategic communications, this is how counter-propaganda is translated into the language of the West. They will try to revive cooperation in the sphere of defense industry, and so on."
