The top diplomat
stresses Russia is interested in restoration of normal relations with the US
and the European Union.
MOSCOW, January 16.
/TASS/. Moscow will continue to adequately react to NATO’s enhanced activity
and the approaching by the alliance’s military infrastructure of the Russian
borders, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a large news conference
on 2018 on Wednesday.
"We will
definitely continue to duly react to NATO’s enhanced military activity and the
approaching by the military infrastructure of the Russian border," he
said.
"We are still
interested in the restoration of normal relations with the US and the European
Union based on the principles of equality of rights and mutual consideration of
interests," the minister added.
Bosnia and
Herzegovina’s accession to NATO
Russian cannot agree to Bosnia and Herzegovina’s accession to NATO, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a news conference on the results of 2018 on Wednesday.
"The rules that
are being promoted in the Balkan region in general are dangerous enough and are
reflective of the mania to push all Balkan states to NATO as quickly as
possible," the Russian foreign minister noted.
So, Lavrov reiterated
that the US has long had a rather critical discussion of Serbia’s destructive
role and its slowdown of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s accession to NATO. "Not
Republika Srpska’s welfare but its accession to NATO is on stake," the
minister noted. "That’s what we [Russia] cannot agree to, as it is
mentality of the previous centuries."
"In a situation
when we all proclaimed the intention to build common economic and humanitarian
space and provide equal and indivisible security in the Euro-Atlantic region,
it all is the substitution of international law with the rules that will be
NATO-centric instead of universal. And there are a great number of such
examples," Lavrov concluded.
Source: ITAR-TASS
16-01-2019
