Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Alexander Grushko BRUSSELS, January 12 RF honestly and directly pointed to NATO to the fact that a further slide of the situation could lead to grave consequences for European security, said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko following a meeting of the Russia-NATO Council. that a further slide of the situation could lead to the most unpredictable and most dire consequences for European security. Russia does not agree with such a scenario, «Grushko said during a press conference. 
NATO is not going to take into account the interests of other countries, Grushko said. The meeting of the Russia-NATO Council was held on Wednesday at the headquarters of the North Atlantic Alliance in Brussels. The Russian interdepartmental delegation at the first in the last two years meeting of the RF-NATO Council in Brussels was represented by Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Alexander Grushko and Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Alexander Fomin, who participated in the RF-US talks in Geneva. On the NATO side — Alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and representatives of thirty allies of the alliance. The meeting took place as a follow-up to the talks on security guarantees between Russia and the United States on January 9-10 in Geneva. During the discussion, the parties discussed issues of European security, risk reduction and arms control. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said at a briefing in Brussels that it will be difficult to reach agreements, but the alliance is ready to sit down at the negotiating table for discussions with Moscow. 
The Ministry of Defense called on NATO to exclude a buildup of contingents in Europe At the end of 2021, Russia published a draft treaty with the United States and an agreement with NATO on security guarantees. Moscow, in particular, demands from its Western partners legal guarantees against further expansion of NATO to the east, from joining the Ukrainian bloc and from the creation of military bases in post-Soviet countries. The NATO-Russia Council was created in 2002 as a platform for the development of interaction and coordination. After 2008, the work of the Council slowed down, and in 2014 relations became even more tense. The last time the NATO-Russia Council met was in 2019. The final deterioration in interaction occurred when NATO revoked the accreditation of eight Russian diplomats. In response, the Russian Federation decided to suspend the work of the permanent mission at NATO headquarters in Belgium, as well as to close the military liaison mission and the information bureau of the bloc in Moscow. 
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