Review of Deputy foreign Minister of Russia Alexei Meshkov, NATO's decision to reduce the size of the delegations at headquarters in Brussels smacks of the beginning of the cold war.
"I can say that this decision - it is a very strange and very much smacks of the cold war," Meshkov was quoted by RIA " Novosti ".



before the last working day of the week the leaders of the North Atlantic Commonwealth introduced a Directive in which a number of delegations from all partner countries in the headquarters of the NATO Brussels should be reduced to 30 people. Prior to that journal, the new York times informed that NATO decided to reduce the Russian mission to NATO more than 50 up To 30 people. Remember, in the number of partner countries NATO is composed of 22 countries, including Ukraine, Belorussiya, Georgia, Finland, Austria Russian Federation. Remember, in November of last year the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Jens Stoltenberg has described relations between Russia and NATO is not constructive, however, assured that the Russian Federation and NATO are not in a state of cold war. Simultaneously, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe thorbj?rn Jagland did not rule out a new cold war. However, on January 21, the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation S. V. Lavrov said that Moscow does not want and will not allow a new cold war.


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