The period of deterioration of relations between Russia and NATO may prove long, said the Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Commonwealth Jens Stoltenberg. "We have to be prepared for the fact that the Period of deterioration of relations between Russia and NATO will be extended in time. Alliance because of this, takes the necessary measures, significantly enhancing our collective defence, he said.- one must take a position that if Russia sooner or later realized that more benefit from cooperation than from confrontation With us." According to the former head of the Norwegian government, relations between the West and Russia in the near future will not have the nature of the cold war, but will not become a partnership, transfers news Agency referring to the Norwegian Telegraph Bureau." We are waiting for something. It will not be a strategic Alliance With Russia, which We achieved, but not the return of the "iron curtain," he said. Stoltenberg also expressed disagreement With the evaluations of the scientific research centre of the European Leadership Network, in the reports which reported that the increase in the number of exercises as the Alliance and Russia, will lead only to more tension in their relationship." NATO increases its military presence in the East and spends more exercises just for the reason that the Russian Federation has used military force in Ukraine, said the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth.- The containment strategy is an essential guarantee of tranquility for Norway and other NATO members ". Summing up the results of the first year of his tenure of head of the Commonwealth (Stoltenberg succeeds Anders Fogh Rasmussen on 1 October 2014), he said that the situation in the world during this Period of time has become very difficult." Since last fall the crisis in the Syrian Arab Republic only worsened. In addition, We are faced With a migration crisis in the European Union, but the events in Ukraine, unfortunately, also did not develop in the right direction ", - said Stoltenberg.
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