For years, we have been asking the E.U. to create something similar to the Russia-NATO council. Not in order to simply exchange opinions and work out recommendations, but to make decisions.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We've had some fairly intensive discussions leading up to these meetings between NATO and Russia, preparing for them, and it's going to be a very important six months for NATO.
I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters that might be discussed between NATO and Russia that can provide a mechanism for talking through these issues, a way to give reassurance on these issues.
The E.U. is the latest of a series of multinational organizations set up after World War II to ensure that there would never again be a pan-European war and to create the conditions for a new European prosperity after the destruction wrought by the war against the Nazis. The E.U. has admirably succeeded at both.
We still believe that if the Russian Federation and the United States bring their minds together, we can develop a common system which would be efficient in protecting the Euro-Atlantic region from threats coming outside this region.
The E.U. is an organization that was created after the Second World War for calming down the nationalism of member states, and it did so very successfully.
We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.
If we get the capabilities, NATO, along with the European Union, can do amazing things.
NATO's essentially run by the United States.
We also have a real opportunity to join NATO.
NATO and the EU have also agreed on permanent arrangements on consultation and cooperation between themselves.