Russia Invites NATO Experts For Security Talks
Source: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Russia’s defence ministry said Monday it had invited NATO experts to Moscow for talks next month in a bid to increase security in Europe as tensions with the Western alliance linger.
The announcement comes after a string of incidents and near-misses in Baltic Sea airspace that fuelled strife between Moscow and NATO.
“NATO military experts are invited to Moscow in September 2016 for consultations on the military and political situation in Europe,” deputy defence minister Anatoly Antonov said in a statement, without specifying specific dates.
Antonov said Russia considered the safety of military flights over the Baltic Sea a “priority” and that representatives of non-NATO members in the region had also be invited for the talks.
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Russia Ready For Constructive Partnership With NATO, Invites Military Experts For Talks - MoD
Published time: 1 Aug, 2016 12:21
Russia has proposed to NATO a "positive program" for developing relations, aimed at decreasing tensions between Moscow and the US-led military bloc, Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov said.
“NATO’s military experts have been invited to Moscow in September for consultations concerning military and political situation in Europe,” Antonov said in a statement to the media.
Russia is ready for a constructive dialogue with NATO despite differences in approach to the reasons and consequences of the decisions made at the bloc’s summit in Warsaw in July, Antonov stressed.
During the gathering in the Polish capital, NATO member states labeled Moscow “a source of instability” and ordered an increased military presence near Russian borders.
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