ASTANA (Sputnik) – Russia wants to hear explanations of the decisions taken at the NATO summit on July 8-9, as the public comments are not encouraging, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday.
"First of all, we would like to understanding the NATO explanation of the decisions taken at the Warsaw summit. What we heard as public comments is not encouraging," Lavrov told a press conference in Astana, Kazakhstan.
According to the minister, Moscow is ready to cooperate with the alliance within the framework of the NATO-Russia Founding Act.
"As far as the long-term relations with NATO are concerned, you know that we did not terminate the agreement on cooperation in fighting terrorism, we did not freeze all cooperation in supporting Afghanistan’s security forces… And it was not us that suspended all other forms of cooperation between Russia and NATO," Lavrov added.
