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Russian FM sees roadblocks to future cooperation with NATO
AFP - Saturday, December 13
MOSCOW (AFP) - - Normalising NATO-Russia ties will be "extremely difficult" and will require revisiting the issue of the Russia-Georgia war, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview published Saturday.
"Before us lies an extremely difficult process of normalisation, in which it will be necessary to return to a discussion of the Caucasus crisis, which our partners declined to have in August," Lavrov told the Interfax news agency.
Earlier this month NATO agreed to gradually resume high-level talks with Russia, frozen in August to protest Russia's war with Georgia, a Western ally that has sought to join the military alliance.
Lavrov said that in the aftermath of the conflict NATO had lost influence to the European Union, which negotiated a ceasefire to end the five-day war.
"Overall a reconfiguration of Euro-Atlantic politics has occurred, with the strengthening of the EU's role and the weakening of NATO-centrism," he said.
"It has become clear that NATO cannot aspire to have a solid role in Europe without productive contacts with Russia.... It seems that in the North Atlantic alliance they are beginning to understand this."
Russia poured troops into neighbouring Georgia in August to repel a Georgian military attempt to retake the Moscow-backed rebel region of South Ossetia.
Georgia says that Russia was seeking to annex its territory.
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Russian soldiers on guard near a sign reading: "Stop! Shooting! Prohibited area" at a check point in Ganmukhuri in mid September. Normalising NATO-Russia ties will be "extremely difficult" and will require revisiting the issue of the Russia-Georgia war, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said in an interview.
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