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Montenegro’s joining NATO is 'an artificial decision', Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
MOSCOW
(Sputnik) – Montenegro’s joining NATO is an artificial decision and
will not provide the alliance with any extra security, Russian Foreign
Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
Montenegro's
accession to NATO was approved by the alliance's foreign ministers
as they convened in Brussels on December 2. On January 28, NATO
Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg stated that Montenegro would begin
talks on joining NATO in mid-February.
Montenegro's bid will then have to be ratified by the national
parliaments of the alliance's members before the Balkan territory can
become NATO's 29th member. Montenegro's opposition has protested the
accession.
Russia's Foreign Ministry has warned that the start of the talks over Montenegro's NATO membership will harm Eurasian and Atlantic security systems, as well as relations between Russia and the alliance.
“We were convinced, just as everyone else who
thought that this artificial decision would not add any kind of extra
security for NATO. The explanations that the Montenegrin people want
this is countered by the argument that if this is so, then why not hold a
referendum,” Lavrov said in an interview with Russia’s Moskovsky
Komsolmolets daily.
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Russia's Foreign Ministry has warned that the start of the talks over Montenegro's NATO membership will harm Eurasian and Atlantic security systems, as well as relations between Russia and the alliance.
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