Russia and the EU came to the "moment of truth"

The head of the Russian foreign Ministry announced that it was time to make a decision about the vector of development cooperation for the future. Sergei Lavrov said that specifically in the moment, the relationship Huyyyyyyyyyyyyyy and the European Union came to the "moment of truth". The head of the Russian foreign Ministry said that after prolonged uncertainty in the relations between Russia and the West need to compromise and make decisions. Sergey Lavrov said that Russia and the EU came to the "moment of truth", when it is necessary to calculate the subsequent interaction rules and format of future relationships. "Unfortunately, at the present time we meet are not the most suitable conditions. During our past contacts we talked about the fact that relations between Russia and the European Union came to a kind of moment of truth, when we had to decide vector of development cooperation for the future and to answer the question: are whether we are for each other strategic partners or still remain geopolitical competitors?" quoted the head of the Foreign Ministry RIA Novosti. Sergei Lavrov said that Russia was hit by the Western States as the most active exponent of the self-position. According to him, during the last quarter of the century, "we are partners in the Euro-Atlantic area were discussions about building strategic relationships, create common structures contribute to, was made a political Declaration calling for the creation of a common space of peace, security and stability". "But at the same time Western partners have promoted their own agenda, largely ignoring the interests of the Russian Federation, expanded NATO as a whole worked to move their control geopolitical space close to the Russian borders," said Lavrov. Russia prefers to develop cooperation with the States of the Eastern region in parallel with the EU, the Minister said. "Our long-time steady course on the strengthening of cooperation with the countries of the East will be fulfilled one way or another, but we would prefer to do it not as an alternative to cooperation with the EU, and in parallel with it," - said Lavrov. Among other things, he reported that Russia continues to consider Europeans partners, despite some statements from Brussels. "Our European partners and we continue to believe their partners, whatever statements sounded from Brussels, he made this fork in the road of their own choice," said the Minister. Among other things he talked about that on 14 October he was appointed business meeting with us Secretary of state John Kerry, on which the policy will address the crisis in Ukraine and relations between Moscow and Washington. Russia expects from the American side fruitful dialogue. It is essential that a meeting of foreign Ministers of the Russian Federation and the United States will be held on the eve of the EU summit and Asia (ASEM) in Milan, where you can place the dialogue in "channel format" (Russia, France, Germany, Ukraine) Ukrainian dilemma. Not excluded and a bilateral meeting between Vladimir Putin and Petro Poroshenko. Not to mention the fact that, directly in Italy, Russia and Ukraine can solve the accumulated gas problems. Poroshenko said that specifically, on October 17, it is possible to achieve good progress.