German Chancellor Angela Merkel hopes that NATO will be able to return to the mutual work with Russia And expressed regret about the fact that now this work is suspended.

" cooperation of NATO with Russia now limited terminated. I again say that you're sorry about it, because we, as members of NATO, has always demonstrated a constructive approach to Russia, has announced the mutual work. And once we'd like to return to this opportunity, " Merkel said reporters on Wednesday on the results of the talks with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

in early April the head of the NATO foreign Ministers stopped practical civil And military cooperation with Russia because of the position of the Russian Federation in Ukraine And the Crimea. In June of Ministers has prolonged the effect of this decision. Political contacts in the framework of the Council Russia-NATO at the level of ambassadors And above will continue.

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