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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe.
NATO has been a thread throughout my life.
Well, we are very glad that Russia is so close with NATO.
We welcome, we welcome this good cooperation between Russia and NATO.
We'll uphold our treaty obligations, including the mutual defense agreement that is NATO.
We will continue to be a big contributor to NATO and our interests will be more secure.
NATO and the EU have also agreed on permanent arrangements on consultation and cooperation between themselves.
We also have a real opportunity to join NATO.
Following the end of the Cold War, there was much discussion concerning the point of NATO. In the event, it was reinvented as a means of reducing Russia's reach on its western frontiers and seeking to isolate it. Its former East European client states were admitted to NATO, as were the Baltic states.
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