NATO emblem. Archive photo BRUSSELS, 13 Jan. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg informed the EU defense ministers, who are holding informal meetings in Brest, France, about the results of the meeting of the NATO-Russia Council, follows from the statement by the head of EU diplomacy Josep Borrell on Twitter < strong>.
& # 34; Tonight we discussed the intervention of non-state actors in our missions with (UN Undersecretary General for Peacekeeping Operations. — Ed.) Jean-Pierre Lacroix and Jens Stoltenberg, who briefed us on the outcome of the Russia-NATO Council meeting & # 34; Borrell wrote.
The meeting of the Russia-NATO Council was held in Brussels yesterday, before that, on Monday, bilateral talks between the delegations of Russia and the United States took place in Geneva. Today, talks in the Russia-OSCE format are scheduled in Vienna. 
«Without Russia, this is doomed to failure.» At a meeting on Wednesday, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko «honestly, directly, without trying to bypass corners» pointed out that further deterioration of the situation in relations between Russia and the West could lead to the most unpredictable and dire consequences for European security. The Kremlin insists on ending the bloc's military cooperation with post-Soviet countries, refusing to establish bases on their territory, limiting the deployment of strike weapons near the Russian border, removing American nuclear weapons from Europe, and guaranteeing that NATO will not expand eastward. restore the mission in Moscow, as well as the Russian diplomatic presence at the headquarters in Brussels. Nevertheless, he spoke out against the idea of Ukraine's non-alignment with the bloc. In turn, Grushko noted that NATO is determined to contain Russia and colossal resources are allocated for this. He added that the negotiations were frank and direct, and also helped to reveal «a large number of differences of the parties on conceptual issues.» However, the diplomat expressed concern to Russia about the return of the alliance to the schemes of the Cold War and warned that attempts to build security against and without Moscow are doomed to failure, and if NATO moves to a policy of containment, then Russia will begin counter-containment, but this is not its choice. 
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