Defense ministers of the North Atlantic Alliance will begin discussions on reviewing NATO's relations with russia at a meeting on October 17-18 in Brussels.
It was stated by an unnamed high-ranking American official quoted by Politico.
According to an official from the U.S., private discussions regarding the official definition of relations with moscow have been ongoing in NATO for several months, and the meeting of the heads of the Ministry of Defense in Brussels next week will be the first official opportunity to continue these discussions.
Among the issues to be discussed by NATO states, he mentioned the future of the NATO-Russia Founding Act signed in 1997. This document is effectively still in effect, although some countries have claimed that the full-scale invasion of 2022 has rendered it effectively invalid.
"Now we have to have an understanding in the Alliance... that (the Founding Act. - Ed.) and the NATO-Russia Council were created for a different era. I think the Allies are ready to say that this was a different era in our relations with Russia, and therefore, we deserve something new," the U.S. official added.
He specified that there is no draft of a new strategy regarding russia yet, as the main focus is currently on gathering the opinions of 32 NATO countries. At the same time, according to the interlocutor of the journalists, it is not expected that the strategy will make significant decisions in terms of the military.
The NATO-russia Council, a post-Cold War body for bilateral security partnership, has not met since 2022.
The review of the Alliance's relations with moscow was approved by the leaders of NATO states at the summit in Washington in July 2024. It is expected that a new strategy for russia will be approved at the summit in The Hague in June 2025.
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