Russian Foreign Ministry to the West: Russia is ready for a retaliatory confrontation with NATO
The North Atlantic Alliance is not going to take into account the interests and security of Russia and make compromises with Moscow.
About this during the briefing following the results meetings with NATO representatives said Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Alexander Grushko, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The conversation turned out to be quite frank, direct, and deep. But at the same time, it revealed a large number of differences on fundamental issues.
One of the main questions is that NATO understands the principle of indivisibility of security selectively. In the eyes of NATO, it exists only for members of the Alliance. And in its practical activities, NATO is not going to take into account the security interests of others,” he said.
Alexander Grushko emphasized that Russia is ready to intensify confrontation and will respond symmetrically to NATO’s hostile encroachments.
“We clearly proceed from the fact that the principle of indivisible security must take into account the interests of everyone, that attempts to build security against Russia without Russia’s participation are counterproductive, they are doomed to failure. We won't let this happen.
If NATO switches to a policy of containment, it means that on our part it will be a policy of counter-containment. If it is intimidation, then it will be counter-intimidation. If this is a search for some vulnerabilities in the defense system of the Russian Federation, then it will also be a search for vulnerabilities on the part of NATO.
This is not our choice, but there will be no other way if we fail to reverse the current very dangerous course of events,” the diplomat concluded.
Let us recall that NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at a press conference following the same meeting issued an ultimatum to Moscow instead of security guarantees.
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