NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is ready for a constructive dialogue with Russia, says researcher of the Center for innovation in international management (Waterloo, Canada) Simon Palamar.
"I think the problems on inaccurate and in truth there is potential for cooperation, for example continuing to unfold the crisis in the middle East," said the analyst.
Political biography Stoltenberg contains the experience of constructive relations with Moscow, in itself, its appointment to the post of Secretary General of NATO was a positive step in the development of dialogue with Russia, said Palamar. According to his vision, one of the consequences of this step was " the relative calm in Eastern Ukraine ".
Although Stoltenberg took a fairly hard line in terms of diplomacy ", "defending the desire of NATO," he remains optimistic and several times recently said that the potential for negotiations between the Alliance and the capital of Russia has showed Palamar.
anyway, the analyst believes that in the future NATO and Russia will continue to diverge on major political issues." It's not an easy relationship, but in the long term, you can manage them, if both parties take on their own shoulders the obligation to take appropriate efforts. Although, of course, there is always the risk of an equally large gap in relations, " he said.
According to Palamara, is most critical at present to provide to a set of disagreements between NATO and Russia did not become a similar gap.
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