NATO has returned to confrontational instruments of maintaining security - Russian envoy Grushko
BRUSSELS. Jan 4 (Interfax) - Russia's Permanent Representative to NATO, Alexander Grushko, believes that the international situation requires one to abandon all Cold War-era reflexes and this psychology.
"I have no elevated expectations. I prefer being realistic. But today's reality is that NATO has returned to its policy of overtly 'containing' Russia, to confrontational instruments of maintaining security," the high-ranking Russian diplomat said in an interview with Interfax in Brussels.
The danger is that "all this is taking on the shape of military planning, of concrete military preparations along Russia's borders, and is being materialized in 'iron'," Grushko said, adding that "it will be very difficult to reverse this tendency even in the presence of political will."
"It is obvious that the current international situation requires one to abandon all reflexes and the psychology of the Cold War and unite efforts in order to tackle global problems that the entire international community has encountered today," he added.
