The highest-level meeting between NATO and Russia in almost two years served only to confirm that they are “locked in mutual misunderstanding,” according to an official from the Western alliance who took part in Wednesday’s talks in Brussels.
Nobody had expected major breakthroughs in the standoff over Russia’s annexation of Crimea or its support for separatists in eastern Ukraine, but hopes that the first ambassador-level meeting of the NATO-Russia Council since June 2014 might help get the relationship back on track appeared wide of the mark.
“Nato and Russia have profound and persistent differences. Today’s meeting did not change that,” NATO Secretary …read more
Source: European Voice
