The head of the foreign Ministry NATO to discuss Russia, Ukraine and Afghanistan
The head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of countries-members of NATO on Tuesday and on Wednesday will hold a meeting where they will take the report on the invitation of Montenegro to the Alliance, will discuss assistance to Ukraine, relations with Russia and the measures needed to prevent incidents like the crash of a Russian su-24

The head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of countries-members of NATO on Tuesday and on Wednesday will hold a meeting where they will take the report on the invitation of Montenegro to the Alliance, will discuss assistance to Ukraine, relations with Russia and the measures needed to prevent incidents like the crash of a Russian su-24 because of the attacks of the Turkish fighter.
The Ministerial meeting will begin with a discussion of NATO's presence in Afghanistan, where for the period from January of this year combat operation was replaced by mission "Resolute support" training and advising the Afghan police. The Ministers together with other attendees of the mission and the head of the Afghan foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani will discuss the congruence of the mission of the current challenges and continue its work in 2016.
the meeting will discuss financial support to the Afghan security forces in 2018-2020. As said on the first day of the week the US Ambassador at NATO Douglas Lute at the conference in the Polish capital in 2016 the leaders of the countries of the Commonwealth are obliged to accept the conclusion on the allocation to Afghanistan at $ 4 billion each year. The Alliance will also discuss long-term partnership with Kabul.
at the first meeting of the North Atlantic Council at the level of Ministers will discuss the fight against terrorist organization "Islamic state" (DIS, the group banned in Russia).
in discussion will take part the head of EuroDeposit Federica Mogherini. As planned, the participants will Express readiness to continue the battle with ISIS from the coalition under U.S. command. In addition, the Ministers will support the launch of the political settlement in the Syrian Arab Republic, which began in Vienna, and will discuss support of the neighboring countries, among them Iraq and Jordan, which the Alliance helps to strengthen the defense.
this afternoon NATO will also discuss countering hybrid warfare. As the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Jens Stoltenberg, is expected to adopt a new strategy for the battle with hybrid war, which should include training, containment, and protection from such threats.
then at a work dinner member countries of the Commonwealth will review relations with Russia, all practical cooperation with which was frozen in April 2014 in light of the situation around Ukraine. According to the US Ambassador to NATO, as long as it's hard to say what the outcome of these discussions. He noted that the development will begin Tuesday and will continue until the Warsaw summit of the Commonwealth, where this issue will be raised at the level of heads of States.
According to NATO Secretary General, will be discussed, as well as among them, on the restoration of predictability in the relationship between the Commonwealth and Russia, as well as among them on making changes in the documents regulating the monitoring exercise. Stoltenberg believes that the current rules need to change Vienna document of the OSCE, to be able to observe the sudden teachings and force the parties to announce them. The Ministers will also discuss measures to prevent incidents like the shelling of the Russian su-24 bomber, which hit Turkey last week.
The main intrigue of the meeting will be settled on Wednesday morning. The Ministers will decide whether to invite Montenegro for negotiations on membership in the Alliance. First NATO Secretary General said on numerous occasions the progress made by Montenegro towards membership in the organization, the last time this message was made by results of visit of foreign Ministers and the Ministry of defence in the headquarters of the Commonwealth last week.
finally, the invitation of Montenegro is obliged to be unanimous, for this reason, on the first day of the week, the Secretary-General not to prejudge the outcome of the discussion. For its part, the Ambassador of Slovakia to Montenegro said that the permanent representatives of NATO North Atlantic Alliance recommended that the foreign Ministers invite Montenegro to join.
NATO Secretary General said that in case of positive decision the outcome of the accession negotiations must be ratified by the parliaments of all 28 member countries, for this reason " the process will take time." He also said that within this process, NATO will continue to focus on the need to ensure the Montenegrin authorities of public support for membership in the Alliance, as well as reforms in the rule of law.
the Russian authorities many times intimidated about the negative consequences of the accession of Montenegro to the Alliance for Russian-Montenegrin relations, as well as among them through the residence of the Ambassador of Russia in Podgorica. The state Duma passed the message with an appeal to the deputies of other countries to prevent the expansion of NATO at the expense of joining the Alliance in Montenegro. The Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation said that the beginning of negotiations on accession of Montenegro to NATO will hit the system of Euro-Atlantic security and further complicate the relations of the capital of Russia and the Commonwealth. On the first day of the week on such information expressed and the Vice-speaker of the state Duma Sergey Zheleznyak, noting that Russia will be forced to review relations with Montenegro, as well as among them economic relations, if the country will join NATO without a referendum.
The Ministerial meeting will End on Wednesday the meeting of the Commission Ukraine - NATO at the level of foreign Ministers, the Ukrainian side will be represented by foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin.
explaining expectations from the meeting, Commonwealth Secretary-General said that the Ministers to confirm political support to Ukraine and to consider practical assistance in the modernization of command and control structures, logistics and cyber capabilities. Stoltenberg also reminded that a number of countries-members of NATO train Ukrainian military.
The Ministers plan to discuss the progress of the Minsk agreements by both parties.