BRUSSELS (Sputnik) — According to Pavel, "NATO and NATO’s actions and measures are in line with the NATO-Russia Founding Act," despite Moscow stating that the alliance is breaching its promise of not deploying substantial combat forces.
"NATO repeatedly sticks to the coherency to NATO-Russia Founding Act and there is no appetite from NATO side to cancel it or to rewrite it. We simply believe that the document as it is provides good foundation for Russia-NATO relationship and we should stick to it," Petr Pavel told RIA Novosti.
"I don't think we need to produce more documents. I believe that the existing set of documents based on international rules and norms, based on Helsinki process, Vienna document, NATO-Russia Founding Act they represent quite a solid foundation of documents and legal basis on which international relations can run to the benefit of all participants," Pavel said.
According to Pavel, "the basic precondition is that we all respect these rules. And if we deem that these rules are obsolete or insufficient we should use legal instruments how to change these rules and not to change the rules to fit ourselves without regard to anybody else."
He noted that the current state of relations between Russia and NATO could not be compared to Soviet times.
"We were in a confrontation of two blocks," Pavel said. "To some extent the situation was much easier and more comprehensible then today. Today it is much more complex with many more challenges then before and also the relationship is entirely different."
