Russia has no information that NATO is going to establish contacts with Moscow and the alliance is unwilling to have any interaction, Sergey Lavrov said after the G20 summit in Rome on Sunday.
"We have no information about what NATO is going to do. We rely on facts and these facts suggest that NATO does not wish any interaction with us," Russia’s top diplomat said, responding to a question from TASS about whether any signals had emerged from NATO about the need to establish a dialogue with Moscow.
NATO announced on October 6 that it had cut the staff of the Russian mission at the alliance from 20 to 10 members, revoking the accreditation of eight diplomats and abolishing two vacant positions. The North Atlantic alliance told the Russian diplomats to leave Brussels by late October.
Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov announced on October 18 that Russia would suspend its mission to NATO from November, following the military bloc’s decision to withdraw the accreditation of eight Russian diplomats. He also said that the work of the NATO military liaison mission and information office in Moscow would be suspended.
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