Russia refused to restore relations with NATO on the terms of the alliance
Moscow is not going to restore its diplomatic mission to the North Atlantic Alliance.
A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, citing an informed source, Izvestia reports.
The publication’s interlocutor said that the alliance proposed returning to the point at which the representative office completed its work, namely to a diplomatic staff of 10 people, including technical staff. Moscow is not happy with this option.
According to the source, given that the alliance has proposed to actually return to the situation that was established after the recent expulsion of Russian diplomats, such a statement is just a rhetorical turn, which does not have a real intention to resume full-fledged work of missions.
In turn, the first deputy head of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs, Vladimir Dzhabarov, considers the idea of restoring relations to be correct, but does not see the possibility of its implementation today.
“Of course, we must try to restore it so that there are normal relations, normal interaction. But now this is impossible - we haven’t decided anything. But no one needs to simply return diplomats who will sit in these missions for the sake of sitting. This is again the same screen with which they are trying to avoid the main answers. Now this does not matter, because these representatives will simply have nothing to decide,” Dzhabarov emphasized.
Let us recall that after the expulsion of eight employees of the Russian permanent mission to NATO in the fall of 2021 and the abolition of the positions of two more, only 10 Russians remained in the mission. Soon, Moscow announced that from November 1 it would close its representative office with the alliance and the NATO Information Bureau in Moscow.
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