Lavrov said that Russia will never become a NATO member.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that “NATO is a geopolitical project for the development of territories after the collapse of the USSR.” He also said that Russia would send its military to negotiations on “security issues” with the Alliance.
Lavrov said this in an interview with Russian TASS.
Lavrov attacked NATO and said, that “the West cannot be trusted.” Also, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry believes that “NATO is a geopolitical project for the development of territories after the collapse of the USSR.” He added that Russia will never become a member of this Alliance.
Lavrov said that the military aggressor countries will take part in the meeting of the Russia-NATO Council. At the same time, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry added that “the Russian Federation does not put forward ultimatums about how long the talks on security can last, but he is convinced that they cannot be long-term.” unveiled , as they call it, a draft treaty between Moscow and Washington on “security guarantees”, where there are several points directly related to Ukraine and its integration into European and Euro-Atlantic structures. Moscow demands from the US legal guarantees that NATO will give up its intention to admit Ukraine . Thus, paragraph 4 states that the United States will be obliged “to exclude further expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in an eastern direction, to refuse to admit the states that were previously part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics into the Alliance.”
