"Citizens should decide on Montenegro's NATO membership"
Source: Beta, Pobjeda
PODGORICA -- Russia's ambassador to Montenegro says
it would be democratic to include citizens in the decision making
process on Montenegro's NATO membership.
"Let's look at what kind of 'democracy' NATO has brought to Iraq, Libya, and Syria," he told the Podgorica daily Pobjeda.
Despite the fact Montenegro joined western sanctions against his country - a development he described as "disappointing" - Nesterenko said that the Montenegrin-Russian relations "have a positive dynamic after all."
According to the diplomat, western countries "tricked" former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev into agreeing to the unification of Germany, with the promise that NATO would not expand.
"Unfortunately he believed them and there was no agreement that would guarantee these promises," Nesterenko said, and added that the military alliance has since been constantly getting closer to Russia's borders.
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