NATO claims Russia has violated the Founding Act

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Russia violated the Russia-NATO Founding Act three times, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said. He concluded that the agreement no longer worked. Mr. Stoltenberg also said that NATO will continue to supply Ukraine with weapons.

The Russia-NATO Founding Act was adopted in 1997 as a basis for contacts between Moscow and the alliance. In it, the parties announced that they “do not regard each other as adversaries” and established a joint Russia-NATO Council. It met every year until April 1, 2014, when, due to the annexation of Crimea to Russia, the alliance’s council of foreign ministers in Brussels announced the suspension of all military and civilian cooperation with Russia.

“We see that Russia does not show any respect for the NATO-Russia Founding Act. If one party does not respect him, the agreement does not work. This is reality. The agreement does not function because one side, Russia, has been violating it for many years,” Mr. Stoltenberg said at a press conference after the organization’s emergency online summit (TASS quote).

The NATO Secretary General added that the alliance is ready to “continue to provide financial, military and humanitarian support to Ukraine.” “As for potential negotiations between the government of Ukraine, President Zelensky and Russia: my main message is that President Zelensky and the government of Ukraine should decide (this issue.— “b”)”,- he said.

On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the deployment of troops to Ukraine for “denazification and demilitarization.” After that, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced a general mobilization. Moscow offered Kiev to hold talks in Minsk. Kiev spoke in favor of negotiations in Warsaw, and then, according to the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, left the connection.

On the development of the situation – in the online broadcast “Kommersant”.

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